By Tony Wood, Grattan Institute The federal government has announced a long-awaited climate change target for 2035, committing to a reduction in emissions of between 62 per cent and 70 per cent below 2005 levels. Environmentalists claim the target is a failure, while some business groups and the opposition are likely to slam it as…
Sponsored Engineers Australia’s flagship event, the Climate Smart Engineering Conference 2025 (CSE25), is heading to Adelaide for the first time this August 27 to 28 – and it couldn’t come at a more urgent time. With Australia’s climate challenges intensifying, this year’s theme, Resilience engineered: solutions for our climate reality, cuts to the heart of…
Tiny underwater robots have captured devastating footage of coral bleaching at one of the world’s most remote reefs, exposing a hidden environmental crisis off the West Australian coast. Advanced Navigation’s micro submarines, called Hydrus, surveyed Hall Bank reef near Fremantle in June, revealing a barren seafloor littered with pale, lifeless corals at the unusual latitude…
Producing iron using renewable hydrogen is Australia’s best pathway to remain competitive as the global steel industry decarbonises, according to research published by Deloitte and WWF-Australia on Wednesday. The report, titled Forging Futures: Changing the nature of iron and steel production, assessed different approaches for Australia to support steelmaking decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific region, which…
A free, day-long Western Sydney Manufacturers event will be held at Penrith on April 2, hosted by the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) and the NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub. According to a statement from NSSN on Tuesday, the forum is titled Western Sydney Manufacturers: Building profits on the path to sustainability, and aims to help…
SPONSORED CONTENT The long-anticipated mandatory climate-related financial disclosures have been passed into law and will affect some companies as soon as January 2025. The requirements will be phased in over a three-year period and capture companies based on size, value and turnover. Companies that are not directly in scope of reporting may be affected due…
Chris Bowen visits China to talk low carbon transmission The Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will travel to China to represent Australia at the 8th Ministerial on Climate Action (MOCA), taking place on 22-23 July 2024. There he will deliver a keynote address on emissions reduction and the low-carbon transition and meet with…
By Hanqin Tian, Boston Coll ege; Eric Davidson, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Rona Louise Thompson, Norwegian Institute for Air Research Food’s role in climate change has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our time. The journey of a steak, fruit or salad from the vast expanses of agricultural lands…
Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% – turbocharging our national innovation effort – innovation policy analyst Dr John Howard shines light on why Australian R&D is going backwards. In this, the second part of a two-part series, Dr Howard discusses the reasons behind the fall in R&D spending, pointing the finger at a…
By Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention the vast array of electronics that have become integral to many people’s daily lives. The 21st century chip manufacturing industry has been…