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08.07.25

Australian-first credibility guide to support businesses in new era of climate reporting

A new Australian-first credibility guide for corporate climate transition plans, with input from the nation’s leading industry groups and climate transition experts, has been released by Monash University’s Climateworks Centre.  Climateworks Centre CEO Anna Skarbek AM said: ‘Net zero targets are now business-as-usual – but how companies plan to get there is not.

08.07.25

Why credible transition plans are now essential for business survival and success

Transition plans are fast becoming a ‘ticket to play’ for companies, much like net zero targets were a few years ago.

26.06.25

Mandatory climate-related financial disclosures for Australian companies, explained

Many Australian companies now need to disclose climate-related information as part of their general financial reporting.
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09.06.25

  • Report

Now more than ever: Impact report 2024

This report gives an overview of our efforts to drive ambitious climate action across our region in 2024, with a particular focus on nine selected impact stories.

  • Indonesia
  • Southeast Asia

03.07.25

  • Paper
  • Report

Your Future, Your Super Performance test can be future-proofed with climate benchmarking

Australia has a world-leading superannuation industry – with one of the highest retirement savings per capita than any other country.

  • Australia

26.02.25

  • Report

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

26.07.23

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  • Website

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.

08.07.25

  • Report

Guide to credibility for corporate climate transition plans

The introduction of new mandatory climate-related financial disclosures in Australia in January 2025 marks the start of a new era, where planning for net zero is standard practice for Australian companies.

  • Australia

18.02.25

  • Report

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
  • Southeast Asia

28.08.24

  • Report

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

14.11.23

  • Report
  • Website

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
20.06.25

Speech: Anna Skarbek speaks on Climateworks’ Indonesia office’s five year anniversary

An edited extract from Anna Skarbek’s remarks on 17 June 2025, at a celebration of the fifth anniversary of Climateworks Centre’s Indonesia office, held at Wisma Habibie Ainun, South Jakarta.  Climateworks Centre CEO Anna Skarbek AM speaks at the fifth anniversary celebrations.

18.06.25

Six leading organisations commit to strengthen climate collaboration in Indonesia

Six leading organisations have formalised a strategic partnership at the Fifth Australia-Indonesia Energy Transition Policy Dialogue to accelerate the nation’s clean energy transition through collaborative research, policy support and institutional cooperation.  The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Jakarta by Climateworks Centre, Centre for Policy Development (CPD), Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Indonesia Research Institute for Decarbonization (IRID) and Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC).

13.06.25

Climateworks welcomes new executive overseeing Australian programs 

Climateworks Centre is pleased to announce Erwin Jackson as the new Head of Australian Programs.

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Ambitious targets and swift action are prerequisites for shared climate safety. Climateworks develops evidence-based solutions to accelerate emissions reduction in line with the global 1.5°C temperature goal.


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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.

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