Environment
Alternative labels
Natural environment
Report
Corporate climate responsibility monitor 2022
This report assesses the climate strategies of 25 major global companies, critically analysing the extent to which they demonstrate corporate climate leadership.
Discussion paper
Who's buying? The impact of global decarbonisation on Australia’s regions
This report from the Centre For Policy Development’s sustainable economy initiative models the impact of global decarbonisation commitments on employment and output at a Local Government Area (LGA) level in Australia.
Report
Geopolitics of the energy transformation: the hydrogen factor
As countries around the world rally behind net zero targets, hydrogen is increasingly seen as a missing piece of the energy transformation puzzle to decarbonise harder-to-abate sectors. This report considers whether and how hydrogen may disrupt future energy systems, reflecting on many of the key themes discussed in a report released by IRENA in 2019.
Working paper
Do climate policies explain the productivity puzzle? Evidence from the energy sector
Productivity growth in advanced economies has slowed. What accounts for it remains a puzzle. One possible explanation lies with the increased stringency of environmental regulations. The authors investigate this possibility in the case of the regulated energy network industries in a sample of OECD countries over the period 1998-2016.
Report
Climate disclosures: lessons from global trends for Aotearoa New Zealand
The purpose of this report is to consider emerging global best practice for standards on climate risk disclosure regimes and how they might be adopted into the incoming mandatory regime in New Zealand.