While many large enterprises already recognise the financial imperative of emissions reduction, many mid-tier businesses are being left behind – often due to a lack of tailored, actionable information. This guide aims to help large organisations and industry associations champion climate action across Australia’s mid-tier business sector. It provides clear, compelling messages to communicate the...

Renewable electricity generation has quadrupled in the past decade and is set to double in the next. Renewables like rooftop solar, grid-scale wind and solar, and advanced storage now provide around 40% of the electricity in the main grid. However, this research found a significant gap between what’s happening in the renewables space and what...

The State of the Environment Report provides a review of Australia’s natural environment every five years to shape strategy, policy and action to influence behaviours and actions taken to prevent further environmental decline in Australia. This evaluation of the report identified 25 recommendations to improve the communication and promotion, accessibility and utility of the report.

The unprecedented speed and scale of progress with artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years suggests society may be living through an inflection point. This report explores how AI technologies, such as deep learning or large language models, are transforming the nature and methods of scientific inquiry. It also explores how notions of research integrity, research...

Making decisions for climate policy and action can be fraught and divisive, and compounded by the spread of mis- and disinformation. This research finds that in order for collective intelligence initiatives to have impact, three factors are critical - sustaining volunteer participation, ensuring citizen-generated data fills known evidence gaps, and getting policy-makers to act on...