Turning the tide with Indonesia’s ocean economy
Join us for our final Briefing Room webinar of the year at 2:00pm on Tuesday 2 December 2025 and discover how Indonesia’s ocean economy can supercharge climate action and sustainable economic growth.Â
21.11.25
The power of place in building net zero industrial precincts – The Briefing Room
Net Zero Industrial Precincts (NZIPs) are emerging as a powerful model for place-based industrial decarbonisation. While all aim for the same end goal, the path looks different in every location.
22.09.25
Making corporate climate transition plans credible – The Briefing Room
As the net zero transition ramps up, so do expectations for companies to show that they’re part of the shift to a low-emissions economy. In an Australian first, Climateworks Centre has created a credibility guide for corporate climate transition plans. A credible transition plan can demonstrate a company’s genuine commitment to reducing emissions – enhancing their competitive advantage, long-term value and investor confidence.
08.07.25
What Australia’s election means for climate policy and the region – The Briefing Room
Watch Climateworks Centre experts explore what the Australian election outcome means for emissions reduction, regional cooperation and key policy opportunities now open to the incoming parliament.
05.06.25
What’s affecting climate action in 2025 – The Briefing Room
Video from this event is now available to watch on demand. Hear from Climateworks experts as they discuss the trends moving the industrial, energy and corporate sectors towards net zero emissions in Australia and Southeast Asia.
04.03.25
Australian climate policies and opportunities – The Briefing Room
For the third time, Climateworks has analysed Australia’s state and territory governments’ climate policies and programs. Have a sneak peek at our forthcoming report as we highlight noteworthy subnational climate initiatives and identify key opportunities for further action.
12.12.24
What Indonesia’s next climate pledge could do for its people, environment and economy – The Briefing Room
Climateworks’ in-house experts explore what it could mean for Indonesia to increase its pledge to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
13.08.24
How to reduce Australia’s transport emissions – The Briefing Room
Join Climateworks experts as we launch our new report
05.06.24
How Australians benefit from climate-ready homes – The Briefing Room
Poor home energy efficiency is a reality of life for most Australians. Dwellings are expensive to heat and cool – and even then, are often still uncomfortable to live in.
05.03.24
Briefing Room: Our new decarbonisation scenarios for Australia
Our latest decarbonisation pathways for Australia’s economy show Australia can still decarbonise in line with the Paris Agreement, with increased ambition.
08.11.23
Nature and climate: Measuring natural capital in Australia
After four years working with industry, government, stakeholders and experts, Climateworks has released version 1.0 of the Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue.
30.08.23
Sea of opportunity: The role of ocean mitigation in Indonesia’s decarbonisation
Ocean-based climate mitigation could provide up to one-quarter of the emissions reductions needed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
21.07.23
How to decarbonise Australia: Industry, energy and technology – Part 2
Join us for our second deep dive into decarbonising the nation, as we explore the role of pathways in guiding the transition to net zero emissions.
24.05.23
The Briefing Room: How to decarbonise industry in Australia – Part 1
Join us for part one of a two-part deep dive into strategies to decarbonise Australian industry.
17.04.23
The Briefing Room: 2022 climate review
Hear from our experts as they track this year’s Australian corporate and government progress towards a 1.5°C future. The 2022 Australian federal election shifted the national conversation on decarbonisation, and resulted in an increase in Australia’s ambition for emissions reduction.
28.11.22
The Briefing Room: Financing the region’s clean energy transition
Our experts share their analysis of energy transition finance, including priorities for Southeast Asia and the role that countries such as Australia can take in speeding up the transition.
12.10.22
The Briefing Room: The 1.5°C challenge and why Australia is well-placed to meet it
This webinar has been postponed. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about future Climateworks events. Join us as we share our modelling insights and assessments of emerging policy trends.
31.08.22
The briefing room: Decarbonising regional Australia
Australia’s regions face growing uncertainty as shifts to decarbonise global supply chains risk leaving industrial regions behind. Yet the global shifts present enormous opportunities for economic growth while significantly reducing emissions across the country.
16.05.22
The briefing room: The twin challenge of tackling climate change while preserving nature
To limit warming to 1.5°C we need global emissions reduction as scale. But the protection and restoration of nature will also be vital to climate solutions.
16.05.22
The briefing room: After COP26 – How infrastructure can help deliver net zero
What does the future of Australia’s infrastructure look like, when seen through a low-carbon lens? Infrastructure influences around 70 per cent of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
03.11.21
The briefing room: Chasing Southeast Asia’s green future
What does it take to develop the ASEAN green economy? Southeast Asia plays an increasingly important role globally, with the combined GDPs of the ASEAN trading group making it the fifth largest economy in the world.
13.10.21
State and corporate climate action – closing in on 1.5
Ambitious targets are just part of the equation for a 1.5 degree future. For decision makers in both business and government, the question is: how do we get there?
05.10.21
The briefing room: Industry and the global net zero transition
Australia can be competitive and remain a major export economy as the world decarbonises. But the transition challenges are real, and the solutions go beyond what a single player can achieve alone.
19.07.21
The briefing room: Transforming our food and land use systems – global trends and Australia’s opportunity
On Tuesday 20 July Climateworks Australia hosted a UN Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue, putting the spotlight on sustainable food and land use systems, and the role Australia can play in supporting climate outcomes.
12.07.21
Building our future event series – Sustainable finance: Pathways, policy and trends
On Tuesday 8 December 2020 Climateworks and the British High Comission hosted a discussion on pathways to a robust and competitive sustainable finance sector in Australia.
17.11.20
Building our future event series – The business of net zero
The race is on to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century. On Tuesday 24 November our expert panel discussed where climate ambition is strongest globally, which countries and companies are leading the way, and how others can catch them.
17.11.20
Building our future event series – Clean technology: Energy and industry transitions
The race is on to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century. In the first of Climateworks and the British High Commission’s ‘Building our Future’ webinar series, our panel of experts discussed what it takes to unlock the potential of clean technology, the progress we’ve made around the world in clean energy transition, and what still needs to be done.
16.10.20
The briefing room: Growth through transformation – how governments can unlock investments that achieve climate and development goals
Achieving the Paris Agreement along with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires an estimated investment of US$2.6 trillion each year over the next decade for developing countries alone.
11.10.20
The Briefing Room: Retrofit for purpose – net zero in the built environment
Climateworks’ Decarbonisation Futures sets an urgent challenge: energy performance of housing must improve, on average, by nearly fifty percent in the next decade for Australia to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
22.07.20
The briefing room: Food and land use transitions
Globally, experts have identified ten critical transitions that can improve how we produce food and manage land. These include ways to cut emissions, enhance ecosystems, build regional communities’ resilience and protect food security.
25.06.20
The briefing room: Transport – moving to zero
New Climateworks research identifies the solutions available now to shift Australia’s transport network to net zero emissions. But the barriers are real.
11.06.20
The briefing room: Industry transitions
The positive outcomes for Australia’s economy in a shift towards zero emissions are well-canvassed. But what does this look like for heavy industry, in the context of the economic recovery?
28.05.20
The briefing room: The energy transition
Recent research from Climateworks and CSIRO shows that viable paths to zero emissions exist for all major economic sectors in Australia. On 13 May 2020 as part of the Climateworks webinar series ‘the briefing room’, CEO Anna Skarbek joined CSIRO’s Chief Energy Economist Paul Graham and Morgan Stanley’s Rob Koh on the pathway to net zero energy.
14.05.20
The briefing room: Decarbonisation Futures
In April 2020 Climateworks Australia launched Decarbonisation Futures, which sets out detailed evidence of how major sectors of the Australian economy can move to net zero emissions and keep warming below 2 degrees, and even 1.5 degrees.