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Warp speed: Accelerating renewable energy infrastructure deployment
This report outlines a strategy for accelerating Australia’s renewable energy infrastructure. It identifies critical bottlenecks in the workforce, planning approvals, capital allocation, and supply chains. Proposing a ‘warp speed’ mandate, the document provides 24 recommendations to achieve the rapid generation, transmission, and storage expansion required for 2035 targets.
Implementing the EPBC Act: Recommendations to support better, faster decisions for renewable energy projects
This report provides recommendations from the Clean Energy Investor Group to improve decision-making under Australia's reformed EPBC Act. It advocates for consistent administration, better data usage, and the finalisation of regulatory frameworks. The objective is to facilitate efficient renewable energy project approvals while strengthening environmental protection outcomes.
Growing resilience: Nature-based solutions for adaptation
This report assesses eleven Nature-based Solutions projects in Sub-Saharan Africa using the IUCN Global Standard. It evaluates contributions to climate adaptation, biodiversity, and gender equality. Key recommendations include integrating maladaptation risk assessments, extending project timelines, and aligning local actions with national policy frameworks to ensure sustainable resilience.
Certifying geologically balanced fuels: Pathways, requirements and the case for reforming Lower Carbon Aviation Fuels
This research report explores the certification of geologically balanced fuels (GBFs) to align fossil aviation fuel use with net-zero objectives. It evaluates existing frameworks, identifying the CORSIA Lower Carbon Aviation Fuels (LCAFs) as a viable foundation, and recommends specific amendments to ensure high-integrity emission reductions and geological balancing.
Homework in climate economics: Household production, environmental preferences, and climate policy
This research analyses household energy use and climate policy, identifying residential solar as a cornerstone for cost-effective abatement. It finds that environmental preferences significantly lower baseline emissions, while income-targeted subsidies provide minimal fiscal savings. The study emphasises the vital complementarity between solar and electricity-intensive equipment like electric vehicles.
Climate change is projected to widen global inequalities in ocean-derived wellbeing
This research introduces the Blue Well-being Index to assess ocean-derived prosperity across 143 countries. Projections under high-emission scenarios indicate a nine per cent global decline by 2100. Both high-income and low-income nations face disproportionate losses, necessitating coordinated international mitigation and conservation efforts to protect ocean health.
Defining the globe’s flood risk
This report assesses global flood risk, identifying that 1.92 billion people and $18.8 trillion in economic output are currently exposed. Using high-resolution hydraulic modelling, it details accelerating losses and projects future vulnerability across regions including Asia-Pacific and Africa, providing a framework for prioritising resilience and financial protection.
Pollution monitoring and the pricing of environmental risk in firms
This study investigates China's air quality monitoring rollout, showing that increased pollution salience prompts financial analysts to produce more environmental research. This leads to market repricing, with brown firms facing valuation losses and green firms seeing gains, representing 5% of total market capitalisation and enhancing price efficiency.
Electrification across the steel value chain
This report examines electrification as a critical pathway for decarbonising the steel industry. It evaluates technologies for process heat, iron ore reduction and downstream operations. Highlighting energy security and flexibility benefits, the analysis advocates for policy support and investment to transition from fossil fuels to clean electricity.
Crude awakening: How Australia ranks on fuel security
Australia is highly vulnerable to global oil shocks as the world's largest seaborne diesel importer. This report details how the 2026 energy crisis cost motorists $5 billion. It advocates for rapid electrification of transport and mining to replace volatile imported fuels with secure, domestic renewable energy.
Property insurance and disaster risk: New evidence from mortgage escrow data
This report analyses homeowners insurance premiums using mortgage escrow data from 2014 to 2024. It documents rapid premium increases and a doubling of the risk-to-premium gradient, driven by global reinsurance costs. These rising costs have significant impacts on home values, particularly in areas facing high climate risk.
Turning digital into impact: 10 UNDP country stories
This report details ten UNDP initiatives demonstrating how digital transformation drives social impact. Covering nations like Brazil, India, and Ukraine, it showcases human-centred technological investments that improve justice systems, healthcare delivery, and climate resilience. The findings emphasise that institutional change and trust-building are as critical as the technology itself.
The climate-biodiversity-pollution nexus: The pricing of environmental credit risks for European industrial polluters
This study of 832 euro area banks indicates that lenders are increasingly factoring pollution-induced biodiversity risks into their decisions. Banks primarily mitigate these exposures by lowering loan-to-value ratios, particularly for companies operating near protected areas or those linked to water quality failures. This trend reflects growing regulatory and financial awareness.
Castles & cars: Savings in the suburbs through electrifying everything technical study
This report examines the potential for Australian households to achieve significant financial savings through total electrification. It highlights that by 2030, average families could save up to $6,000 annually. The analysis stresses the importance of rapid technology adoption and policy intervention to eliminate domestic fossil fuel emissions.
Electrify 2515 community pilot: Lessons learnt report no. 1: August 2024 – November 2024
This report details the initial phase of the Electrify 2515 Community Pilot, highlighting strong recruitment driven by community engagement. Key findings include the need for simplified terminology, such as "smart energy devices," and the necessity for specialised installer training to navigate complex retrofitting challenges and variable market pricing.
Unlocking a virtuous cycle: Overcoming barriers to AI in Australian energy systems
This report examines barriers to AI adoption in Australia's energy transition. Despite AI's potential to unlock grid capacity and reduce costs, adoption is hindered by risk aversion, capital expenditure biases, and siloed data. It recommends joint government-industry action, including regulatory reform and innovation funding, to scale transformative AI solutions.