Climate financing
Guide
Investor expectations for corporate just transition planning
This guide is designed to support stewardship teams in understanding, assessing, and engaging with the just transition plans of their investee companies. It provides actionable processes and templates to support investors in implementing best practice corporate transition.
Report
Ideas to industries
This report finds government funding is generally skewed towards the later stages of industry development which are already comparatively well-financed by private capital markets. It suggests shifting more funding towards the early stages of industry development, including high-risk high-reward projects that might otherwise struggle to gain private finance, and could one day become major players...
Report
From laggards to leaders: an assessment of Australian banks’ climate commitments
This report benchmarks the performance of Australia’s biggest banks in achieving their commitments to reach net zero emissions, finding that they continue to fall short despite progress. The report provides 19 recommendations to help banks progress and expand their climate goals and increase transparency while protecting against risk.
Report
Offshore electricity infrastructure
A high-level gap analysis of how the existing National Electricity Rules relate and apply to potential offshore electricity infrastructure (OEI) development. The paper focuses on harmonising onshore and offshore regulation and identifies gaps, barriers and opportunities for reform. It concludes that while it is both feasible and preferential to accommodate OEI development within the existing...
Working paper
Think globally, act cooperatively: progressing offshore mitigation for Aotearoa New Zealand
By supporting developing countries to reduce emissions through offshore mitigation, New Zealand hopes to boost its global climate contribution beyond the domestic. This paper looks at the country's failure to deliver on the offshore mitigation targets set in the Paris Agreement, outlining the context, challenges, and enablers to boost international cooperation. This paper argues that...