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What’s affecting climate action in 2025 – The Briefing Room

In 2025, low-carbon is becoming big business. Join Climateworks experts to discuss the trends moving the industrial, energy and corporate sectors towards net zero emissions in Australia and Southeast Asia.
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18.02.25

Decarbonising Indonesia’s manufacturing sector: Case studies from the food and beverage, textile and chemical industries

The manufacturing sector accounts for approximately 28 per cent of Indonesia’s emissions, with the top emitting subsectors including chemical, cement, pulp and paper, food and beverage, iron steel, plastic, soap and detergent and textile. With today's technologies, these sectors can reduce emissions and transition to low-carbon operations even while guiding national policies are still being consolidated.

  • Indonesia

12.12.24

Leading climate policies from Australia’s states and territories

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, countries around the world have increasingly recognised climate change as a shared challenge and begun to implement emissions reduction plans.

  • Australia

11.06.24

Decarbonising Australia’s transport sector: Diverse solutions for a credible emissions reduction plan 

Transport is currently Australia’s third-largest and fastest-growing source of emissions.  Download the report [PDF] In the face of growing transport emissions and modest electric vehicle sales figures, Australia can bolster transport decarbonisation by expanding its approach to include a suite of solutions across freight and passenger transport.

  • Australia

26.07.23

Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue

The Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue helps integrate natural capital considerations into business, financial and government decision-making, by facilitating convergence on a core set of consistent and comparable natural capital metrics that can be measured across all scales and different land use types.

13.09.23

Sea of opportunity: Ocean-based mitigation to support Indonesia’s climate ambition

This report assesses the mitigation potential of coastal and ocean areas and their contribution to Indonesia’s 'Second NDC', and suggests mechanisms for including the ocean in the forthcoming NDC. In addition to examining mitigation potential, it also provides details of key relevance to decision makers such as enabling and economic factors, scientific gaps and the likely flow-on effects.

  • Indonesia

26.02.25

Seizing Gladstone’s low-carbon opportunity

This report presents our findings and recommended actions for Gladstone to remain competitive as the world decarbonises – findings on its future as a clean manufacturing hub.

  • Australia

28.08.24

Enabling Australia’s home renovation wave

Our new report focuses on how the Australian Government's built environment sectoral plan can enable emissions reductions and co-benefits through coordinated policy action.

  • Australia

12.04.24

Net zero foundations: Impact report 2023

As Climateworks Centre enters its 15th year of operations, we are proud to share the past year’s annual impact report, showing how we are building on the momentum and successes of our systems approach to climate mitigation.

  • Indonesia
  • Southeast Asia

14.11.23

Climateworks Centre decarbonisation scenarios 2023: Australia can still meet the Paris Agreement

Climateworks Centre's latest scenarios show Australia can reduce emissions by 85 per cent by 2035.

  • Australia

21.02.23

Pathways to industrial decarbonisation: Positioning Australian industry to prosper in a net zero global economy

In 2023, there is international accord that urgent action is required to reduce emissions in line with Paris Agreement goals and limit warming to below 2°C, and preferably to 1.5°C.

  • Australia
20.03.25

Jakarta event paves the way for place-based industrial decarbonisation in Indonesia

An event co-hosted by Climateworks Centre in Jakarta explored the opportunities presented by place-based decarbonisation in Indonesia.

28.02.25

Opportunities for Europe–Southeast Asia–Australia collaboration in a sustainable economy, says Director-General, European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action

Having successfully decoupled emissions from economic growth, the European Union aims to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, Director-General, European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action, Kurt Vandenberghe, told a Melbourne panel.

21.02.25

Climateworks Centre honours departing founding director David Shelmerdine

The idea for Climateworks Centre was born at David Shelmerdine’s kitchen table where David and his wife, Maree, talked with their five children about how to mark 75 years of the Sidney Myer Fund and 50 years of The Myer Foundation, both in 2009.

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Climateworks is having real influence and impact on governments, business and the wider community. Though climate change policy has been extremely fraught and politically difficult in recent years, Climateworks has become a key advisor for both sides of politics.

John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute and Climateworks Centre, former deputy Premier and Minister for the Environment.