According to this report, Australia’s flagship climate policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, is failing miserably. Ahead of the Australian Government’s review of the scheme, this report explains why the permission to substitute real emissions abatement with offsets undermines the integrity of the policy, and how it benefits the fossil fuel companies.

This paper presents a series of positions focused on enabling emissions reductions across all major sectors of the economy. Together, these positions are intended to support the Australian Government’s 2035 emissions reduction targets and place Australia on a credible, resilient pathway to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Energy2050 is intended to be a vision statement, illustrating what it will take to deliver a net zero energy system in Australia while balancing affordability, reliability and sustainability. It seeks to illustrate key enablers in both the National Electricity Market and the South West Interconnected System that will allow the sector to successfully deliver the...

Australia's Safeguard Mechanism – designed to cut industrial climate pollution – is up for review in 2026–27. This new modelling shows the scheme is on track to fall well short of Australia’s 2035 climate target unless urgent reforms are made. The report finds that the scheme is being gamed by coal and gas corporations.

The roadmap details the potential for a novel Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) industry that could help Australia reach net zero. CDR refers to approaches that remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. The roadmap estimates the capacity and cost of a selection of novel CDR technologies and identifies the steps required to develop and deploy them.