Effective city-level planning is essential for Australia to meet its Net Zero targets. Australia can learn from leading global cities to improve policy coordination, employ targeted finance and harness research to develop more effective local climate policy.

Australia can lead on comprehensive climate risk management by regulating corporate financial disclosures to include the physical risks posed by climate change.

Australia can move beyond sustainability and circularity towards an approach to industrial innovation prioritising regenerating nature and our social wellbeing.

Innovative analysis of paleoclimate data from the last thousand years is informing better environmental management. What more can governments do to harness this valuable natural record to improve policymaking?

What does successful knowledge brokering between climate scientists and government look like?

Australia can be a leader in sustainable business and contribute to a greener and more socially responsible future by developing strategic supports, incentives, stricter regulations and collaboration platforms for small and medium enterprises.

Solving our biggest global challenges means putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking.

Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it.

Australia’s material footprint per capita is rising. But with the right policies, we can break the nexus between depleting our ecological resources and improving economic growth.

Almost all the materials used for electrification are finite. Waste recycling should play a major role in the transition to a decarbonized economy.