When SBTi published Version 1.0 of its Corporate Net-Zero Standard in 2021, the task was straightforward: get companies to commit. More than 11,000 organisations did. From the start, a gap opened between those commitments and what companies were doing to deliver them. V2.0, published on 11 June 2026, is SBTi’s… Read More
It sits at the service station entrance, usually lit in red, updated most days. The petrol price board is the most read piece of data in Australia. When that number goes up and stays up, governments flounder. Alongside it, another number is also moving. More than four million Australian households… Read More
My friend Rick is the kind of person who insists on putting his card down for the frequent flyer points. He has solar panels on his roof, a subsidised battery on order, and his next car will be electric. Mention climate change and he won’t hesitate: global warming’s happened… Read More
I’ve sat in boardrooms and pitched the importance of buying “100% renewable energy” to countless Executives and Board members. They’ve been long term deals prioritising pricing stability, and short-term deals looking to ride the market. Deals that make us leaders amongst peers, and deals done alongside peers in corporate… Read More
What is Nuclear Fusion? Fusion is the mirror image of the nuclear power we know. Instead of splitting heavy atoms, it joins light ones, usually hydrogen isotopes, into helium. A small amount of mass becomes energy, as Einstein’s E = mc² implies. Because c (the speed of light) is vast,… Read More
The Edelman Controversy: A Crisis of Trust The crisis of climate leadership isn’t confined to geopolitics. It’s also about trust—and right now, that trust is on the line in Belém. Last week, I spoke to Valori, an Italian… Read More
Best Case, Still Broken Tuvalu is not a template for success – it is a warning about institutional failure. A system that requires a custom treaty to relocate a single island community has no hope of managing planetary-scale migration. And if this carefully choreographed arrangement… Read More
Energy transitions supposedly take decades. This one is happening in years. The world is witnessing an industrial transformation of unusual speed and scale. The question is no longer whether a global energy transition will occur, but how quickly it accelerates. Renewables generated 32% of global electricity in 2024 –… Read More
Met Zero Net zero and 100% renewable targets have become the corporate wallpaper of Australian businesses: ubiquitous, but increasingly hollow. Once a badge of climate leadership, these commitments risk losing their meaning as the bar for ambition stagnates and companies settle for the path of least resistance. Though well intended,… Read More
Meet Murray Watt, Australia’s new Environment Minister. His first major act? Approving one of the most polluting fossil fuel projects in the nation’s history – shattering any pretence of climate leadership from a government elected, in part, on that very promise. Approving Woodside’s North West Shelf expansion doesn’t just undermine… Read More
