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"The stakes could not be higher," a senior UN official told reporters ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York. Heavy flooding, drought and ever longer heatwaves are just some of the extreme weather events that have battered communities over the past summer alone. 

Envision Energy earned an EcoVadis Gold Rating, ranking in the industry’s top 2%, while also achieving 100% renewable electricity, a CDP “A” rating, and Asia’s first dual-certified green loan.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to act with greater responsibility on the world stage, warning that Washington should not see itself as “the emperor of the world.”

With the release of the latest Westpac – Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) survey on Industrial Trends, a concerning divergence has emerged between economic expectations and actual performance across a wide array of different metrics. Over the nearly 30-year scope of the Westpac-ACCI index, the actual assessed performance has tracked the expected performance

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Earlier this month, Ex-NSW Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for Japan and Korea Michael Newman lambasted the size of Australia’s bureaucracy, claiming we had one of the world’s largest number of public sector workers per head of population. Newman claimed that Australia has 140 public servants for every 1,000 people. By comparison, Japan has 38 per

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The third and final tranche of an ARENA fund should open doors to regional businesses wanting to get off gas and decarbonise.

As infighting within the Liberal Party continues over the party’s leadership and its stance on Net Zero, things continue to deteriorate. Electoral demographics continue to shift against them, as the proportion of people living in rented homes increases and their strongest established base of support passes away. According to sources within the Victorian Liberal Party,

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Australian coal exports are going to struggle - all the more reason to find the next gig. All the more reason to decarbonise and embrace the future.

With the release of the latest ABS fertility rate data, it was revealed that the nation’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) had fallen to its lowest level on record, slumping to 1.50 babies per woman. This compares unfavourably with the figure of 1.67 recorded immediately prior to the pandemic and the average for the 2010s of

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Senate inquiry into climate misinformation receives 150 submissions, with a number putting the blame on the government and the science itself.

From the Market Ear: Can’t put a good man down SPX has gone 107 sessions without posting a drop of at least 2%…its longest streak since July 2024. NASDAQ technicals NASDAQ remains trading inside the trend channel that has been in place since May. Note we never even tried the upper part of the channel

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Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) receive significant subsidies in Australia. The federal government loses more than $500 million in tax revenue each year as a result of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for BEVs. This figure is expected to rise as the number of BEVs on the road increases. Under the FBT exemption, someone leasing

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Western praise of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky encouraged overconfidence and increasingly authoritarian behavior in Kiev, The Economist argued in a piece published on Tuesday.

In a “report card” assessing Ukraine’s deepening problems as its conflict with Russia drags on, the British magazine highlighted manpower shortages, a mounting budget deficit, and what it described as a growing loss of government legitimacy.