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25.09.24

New program to transform industrial zones launches in Ho Chi Minh City

Climateworks Centre has launched a new program to facilitate the establishment of net zero industrial precincts in Vietnam.  This follows an MOU signed by Climateworks and Ho Chi Minh Institute of Development Studies on the sideline of Ho Chi Minh City Economic Forum (HEF).
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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

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

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

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

04.05.23

Brief for policy-makers: Renewable energy industrial precincts

Australia’s industrial regions play an essential role in the nation’s economy.

  • Australia
25.09.24

Taking stock of corporate transition planning

Climate commitments abound in corporate Australia.  For more than a decade, companies of all sizes have increasingly made climate and sustainability commitments as investor and customer pressure to act on the climate emergency intensifies.  In 2023, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors found that 61 per cent of ASX200 companies had net zero commitments, compared to 48 per cent in 2022.

19.09.24

Renewables are the cheapest way to reduce Australia’s energy emissions

Over the next two decades, Australia will need to reduce its electricity sector emissions to near zero.

09.09.24

Australia’s Net Zero Economy Authority enshrined in law

Climateworks Centre CEO and Net Zero Economy Agency Advisory Board Member, Anna Skarbek welcomed this valuable addition to Australia’s institutional arrangements. 

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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.