This Month
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Gas critics are signing up for coal and candles
The climate movement needs to ask itself what is worse: gas in the new energy mix, or coal that lingers for longer.
- Craig Emerson
What a second Trump presidency could bring
The influential American conservative platform Project 2025 has spent two years crafting a 900-page proposal for key areas of immigration, tax and trade.
- Matthew Cranston
The $13.6 trillion question: how do we pay for the green transition?
The private sector will have to provide about 70 per cent of climate finance globally, and the heat is building on governments to deliver policies that do that.
- Attracta Mooney
April
Coal mine methane twice official disclosures: Sims
Australia’s open cut coal mines could be emitting twice as much methane as official disclosures suggest, casting doubt on national carbon emissions data.
- Ben Potter
Imploding Star Entertainment, Woodside’s energy battle & inflation runs hot, again
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James & Anthony look at casino operator Star Entertainment’s second brush with disaster, go inside the battle over energy giant Woodside’s climate plan, and ask where rates go next after hot inflation numbers.
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s atomic bet threatens Coalition chain reaction over climate
Rather than keep the heat on Labor’s handling of the cost-of-living pain as inflation stays high, the opposition leader’s nuclear venture risks becoming the story.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Richard Goyder’s Woodside board seat is safe, climate plan is not
Early votes tell us what to expect at Woodside’s annual meeting. It’s clear investors want more action on emissions, particularly at a big oil and gas producer.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Gas
Big US pension funds, Aware want Richard Goyder off Woodside board
But AustralianSuper says it will back the businessman, even as it votes against the oil and gas giant’s climate plans, at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
- Ben Potter and Hannah Wootton
Goyder pleads for support for Woodside’s climate plan
The vote on Woodside’s climate action plan goes to the heart of its credibility as a legacy fossil fuel company committed to transition to net-zero emissions.
- Updated
- Ben Potter
Henry demands billions for nature repair market
The economist wants a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection.
- Jacob Greber
Investors eye attractive returns for Australia’s first green bond
Fund managers expect the country’s first green bond will offer the same yields as government bonds, even though overseas buyers are often willing to receive less.
- Cecile Lefort
March
Real estate investors turn to lawyers after ‘huge’ CO2 shock
Property owners across Europe will need to invest vast sums in renovations to ensure their buildings are not emitting illegal levels of carbon dioxide.
- Frances Schwartzkopff and Gautam Naik
These are the biggest fears for renewables investors
Finding the right blend of risk and return is the biggest headache for climate investors, a new survey shows.
- Jacob Greber
February
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Tax carbon, but don’t gamble on green energy ‘superpower’
A carbon levy is required, but the money should be returned to households, not bureaucrats trying to pick ‘green’ winners, writes John Kehoe.
- John Kehoe
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Why the Coalition wants more homes with solar and batteries
Labor runs the risk of being outflanked by an emerging Coalition plan to expand household and business solar and storage, at the expense of big business.
- Jacob Greber
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
‘Breakthrough moment’: Littleproud backs rooftop solar
The Nationals leader is mulling a plan to divert billions of dollars into putting panels on roofs in the bush to solve the NIMBY transmission problem.
- Jacob Greber
- Europe
- Climate policy
Parisians take aim at SUVs in latest green drive before Olympics
The French capital’s Socialist mayor says the time has come to break the trend to “cars that are always bigger, taller, wider”.
- Helena Alves and John Leicester
January
Shell investors unite with activist group urging greater emissions cut
The group, which includes Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi, will co-file a shareholders’ resolutions pushing Shell to align itself with the Paris Agreement.
- Laura Hurst
- Opinion
- Tax reform
How new tax-base erosion laws could unwittingly crimp Australia
New OECD tax rules for multinationals are a good thing. But they don’t fit the investment risk profile of infrastructure projects in our wide brown land.
- Gena Cerny
December 2023
The world just made it clear the fossil fuel era is ending
More than any climate deal before it, the new pact reflects a recognition that the world is doing more harm than good by prolonging the era of coal, oil and gas.
- Chico Harlan, Maxine Joselow and Timothy Puko