Communication and education to mobilise global climate action
Evidence-informed strategies for promoting global climate literacy and action are essential for addressing the climate crisis The climate crisis is well and truly here, with…
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Nano inks could change how we use energy
Humans use a lot of energy to create and maintain comfortable environments – heating and cooling our buildings, homes, cars and even our bodies. According…
Disconnect: Climate change and the Australian election
The televised debates between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition leading up to the election on 21 May have almost completely ignored…
Building just and prosperous zero-carbon regions
Australian and international research highlights key success factors for accelerating just and well-managed regional energy transitions An increasingly large majority of Australians – apparently even…
To limit future flooding in sydney, cop26 pledges need action
Weather events that led to Sydney’s 2021 floods will likely increase by 80 per cent by the end of the 21st Century under both high…
Building social value into affordable housing
Bureaucrats, community housing providers, developers, service providers and architects are scrambling feverishly to drastically expand the pipeline of social housing projects in Victoria amid a…
Tougher environmental policies can create economic winners
There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, our economic growth will be undermined. But new research finds the…
City climate leadership a model for sustainability
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action. There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and 231 indicators…
Creating clean transport fuels from waste
By extracting biofuel from agricultural and urban waste, researchers hope to create a low-cost, zero emission transport fuel for the future For all of its…
A solution to engineering energy-saving smart materials
Dr Mohammad Taha It is estimated that between 40-60 per cent of energy usage in buildings is due to climate control, including air conditioning and…
Without sustainable cities, global development goals will fail
Cities have been the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, with little discrimination between more and less developed urban environments. More than 95 per cent of…
The costs and benefits of a clean economy
Business leaders, politicians and policymakers have spent years asking if we were to cut emissions, how much would it cost in lost income or Gross…