Built environment
Report
Shifting gear: the path to cleaner transport
This report focuses on the potential for emissions reduction in personal transport and the regulatory, legal and technological changes needed to drive emissions reduction.
Guide
Better practice social licence guideline
This guideline was co-developed by landholder and community representatives and a group of electricity transmission businesses to build a shared understanding of the impacts and potential benefits associated with hosting energy transmission infrastructure for agricultural landholders, and to provide practical guidance to mitigate negative impacts and prioritise shared value through the energy transition.
Report
Financing first home ownership: modelling policy impacts at market and individual levels
This research conducted modelling experiments to examine the relationship between different housing finance conditions and people’s ability to buy a first home.
Report
The new safeguard mechanism and the Santos Barossa gas project
Australia’s primary policy to address industrial greenhouse gas emissions now requires stronger action to cut pollution from gas projects including full abatement of reservoir emissions. The Santos Barossa project is particularly emissions-intensive and is likely to incur carbon costs of between $500m and $987m between now and 2030.
Report
Strategic audit of the implementation of Melbourne Strategic Assessment Conservation Outcomes 2022 report
As Melbourne’s population is predicted to reach six million by 2030, this strategic audit comes at a critical stage in the evolution of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment which aligns State and Federal biodiversity regulation under one program. The report makes 16 recommendations and lists important challenges.