Emissions reduction
Alternative labels
Carbon abatement
Emission reduction
Report
A changing climate: what investors expect from company directors on climate risk
The objective of this report is to clearly articulate Australian investors’ expectations by detailing the experience, action and responsibilities required to constitute a climate competent board.
Briefing paper
Overpromise and underdeliver – a brief history of Australian climate plans
The Morrison Government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with ‘technology not taxes’ is neither plausible nor original. This analysis shows that back in 1997, the Howard Government announced a similar plan, with no carbon price and no regulatory restrictions on fossil fuels, that failed to deliver promised emission reductions.
Report
Australia's long-term emissions reduction plan
This strategy document outlines the Australian government's plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Report
The Fossil Fuelled 5: comparing rhetoric with reality on fossil fuels and climate change
This paper compares the climate commitments of the 'Fossil Fuelled 5' with their future fossil fuel production plans and finds that there is an alarming gap between what they are pledging to do to reduce their domestic emissions and their plans to expand fossil fuel production.
Discussion paper
Undermining climate action: the Australian way
This report estimates the emissions associated with the coal and gas projects currently planned in Australia. The vast emissions that would results from current planned fossil fuelled projects in Australia are not consistent with addressing climate change and achieving net zero emissions.