Brian Spak, from Energy Consumers Australia (ECA), warns that if nothing changes it will be renters, apartment dwellers and low-income households – those with the biggest barriers to going all-electric – who will be left stuck on gas with spiralling bills. reneweconomy.com.au/consumers-co...

Grok said the 2025 plan is only an "incremental improvement" on the version from 2022, but remains "confident in AGL's overall strategic direction and its potential to lead Australia's energy transition with purpose and impact". www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/agl...

Shareholders have sent a clear signal: AGL must stop hedging and start leading by delivering a timely decarbonisation strategy. www.accr.org.au/news/agl-sha...

AGL must move quickly to deliver real emissions cuts and a more compelling strategy that seizes the opportunities of the energy transition. www.accr.org.au/news/agl-sha...

AGL Energy will go into Friday’s AGM with unusually broad investor support for its CTAP, but could still face opposition from its biggest shareholder, Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Ventures, which has been critical of the company’s decarbonisation efforts. www.afr.com/companies/en...

Proxy adviser ISS is urging AGL Energy shareholders to vote against adopting its new climate transition action plan at the company's annual general meeting www.capitalbrief.com/article/agl-...

Though they still haven’t been officially confirmed, reports China’s state-owned buyer told steelmakers to stop purchasing iron ore from Australian mining giant BHP have rattled both markets and Canberra. theconversation.com/is-chinas-re...

To assist investors in their engagements with Shell, this bulletin offers a set of principles that should inform the company’s approach to disclosure and a (non-exhaustive) list of LNG disclosures that Shell could usefully make. www.accr.org.au/insights/inv...

Have you heard offshore windfarms kill whales? (They don’t.) Or that electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It’s the opposite.) Perhaps you’ve heard “natural” gas is clean? (It can be worse than coal.) theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

“The problem with climate change is we’re hitting that system incredibly hard... I think of the land surface as where we see the impacts, but the ocean environment is where we create those events and create those impacts” Professor Matt England said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Sad to hear that today we lost Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91. She inspired curiosity, hope and compassion in countless people around the world. May we all be inspired by the way she lived her life and continue to do what we feel is important. Rest in peace.

ACCR intends to vote AGAINST AGL's Climate Transition Action Plan and executive remuneration at the 2025 AGM. www.accr.org.au/research/ana...

A year after Tata Steel shut down its loss-making blast furnaces (losing £1m/day), work is under way to build a £1.25bn EAF. The project aims to replace coal-based steelmaking with scrap-based production, while still maintaining steel as a local industry. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The value of “stranded assets” in a rapid transition may be large, but at least that value only has to be written off once. The financial consequences of unmitigated climate change, on the other hand, will persist for decades, possibly centuries." www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-t...

Faced with the difficult task of rewarding shareholders with attractive yields and payouts and stopping the investor outflow from the industry, Shell and BP drastically scaled back their ambitions in renewables and shifted their focus on oil and gas again. oilprice.com/Energy/Crude...

The Norwegian regulator has the authority to fine organisations that provide misleading information. A finding that Equinor is not Paris aligned could also have significant implications for its eligibility in investment funds marketed across Europe. www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...

The EPBC Act is misnamed. Its main role is to allow developments to be approved. Environmental and First Nations’ cultural protection is weighed, but a secondary consideration to getting stuff built. Impact on the climate is basically not mentioned. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The LNG industry needs the world to buy LNG. The world doesn't need to buy LNG. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The plan would extend CBAM to some assembled goods such as washing machines, address attempts by producers to circumvent the rules and introduce support for the bloc’s export industries. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Australian metallurgical (met) coalminers such as BHP and Whitehaven suggest India will prop up long-term demand. However, growing Indian demand will not be enough to stop the overall decline in the seaborne met coal market. ieefa.org/resources/in...

Climate risk has become politically sensitive in the US. “We see US companies talking about physical risks when they mean climate change, or for social issues, fair wages and decent employment conditions,” says Mihailescu Cichon. www.sustainableviews.com/out-with-esg...

The federal government watered down a key new condition policing the emissions of Woodside’s huge North West Shelf gas facility after the energy giant warned it could jeopardise the future of the multibillion-dollar project. www.afr.com/companies/en...

Brunel Pension Partnership, Railpen and West Yorkshire Pension Fund said that Equinor’s statements about its strategy being supportive of the Paris Agreement goals, and specifically a 1.5°C temperature pathway, are potentially misleading. www.ipe.com/investors-tu...

Australia’s wind energy drought – no new wind farms have reached financial close so far in 2025 – is set to be broken soon after AGL Energy, the country’s biggest coal generator, signed a 15-year contract with a new South Australian project. reneweconomy.com.au/australias-w...

The federal government is considering a scheme to link LNG export approvals to domestic supply. Exporters would need to demonstrate they had supplied a minimum share of gas to Australian users before being granted approval to sell to markets overseas. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/min...

Natural disasters in China caused direct economic loss of 19.6 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) in August. More than 10 million people were affected by floods, droughts & other disasters, while 122 people were killed or went missing www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A major U.S. gas producer who sells supply gas to the LNG exporters has agreed to buy U.S. LNG. When one of the biggest players in an industry is buying its own product to prop up the market, it’s a good sign of a bubble. powering-the-planet.ghost.io/as-solar-dom...

Sarasin & Partners alongside like-minded global investors representing $1.3 trillion in assets has written to Norway’s Financial Supervisory Authority to ask it to review Equinor’s climate disclosures. Misleading claims of climate leadership are harmful. sarasinandpartners.com/stewardship-...

Australia isn't just absorbing & spreading misinformation from elsewhere. These narratives are strategically financed by vested interests, amplified by international disinformation networks, and spread through unregulated digital platforms www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“Major new investments in fossil fuel development continue to flow in the billions of dollars and investment in renewable energies remain insufficient.” reneweconomy.com.au/banks-and-in...

Our organisation joins 54 leading climate finance institutions from across the world. We are calling for bold, meaningful financial reforms to safeguard global financial stability and avoid the risk of future systemic collapse. Read the full statement: www.tragedyofthehorizon.org

A top developer of direct air capture, technology to extract carbon dioxide from the air, has signalled that its costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change. on.ft.com/46BY5dL

Interviewees agreed that linking scrap-EAF production with renewables was an opening for Japan, allowing the sector to position itself as a genuine low carbon solution for their customers. transitionasia.org/voices-from-...

Steel is 100% recyclable, and over one-fifth of the global supply by now is derived from recycled scrap. Recycling requires only electricity. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

Despite an earnings drop, Shell generated $11.9B in cash from operations and $6.5B in free cash flow, demonstrating its robust cash-generating ability. finance.yahoo.com/news/shell-p...

By missing key opportunities to accelerate decarbonisation, AGL risks being caught flat-footed. Vote AGAINST the company's Climate Transition Action Plan at this year's AGM. www.accr.org.au/research/ana...

The conditions imposed on the North West Shelf gas plant are likely to sound the death knell for the project’s oldest LNG production lines and could jeopardise the chances of Australia’s largest undeveloped gas field from ever being exploited. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/min...

Given the importance of super funds as custodians of the retirement savings of Australians, “the system risk if things go wrong is extraordinary, and the upside of getting it right means [super] can continue to be a successful story of our country”. www.afr.com/companies/fi...

BP said it expects global oil demand to grow until 2030, five years later than its forecast a year ago, pointing to slowed efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce global carbon emissions. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Australia’s abundant magnetite resources have the potential to be a game changer for supplying high-grade feedstock suitable for low-emissions steelmaking. ieefa.org/australian-g...

ArcelorMittal is unlikely to meet its 2030 targets. Despite pledging $10bn for decarbonisation by 2030, it has returned 12x more capital to shareholders than it has invested in climate projects since 2021 trellis.net/article/insi...

Australia would still have one of the dirtiest economies on Earth even if it meets the Albanese government’s new 2035 emissions reduction targets, according to top climate scientists protesting at what they claim is a lack of ambition by the government. www.watoday.com.au/environment/...

Investment in renewable energy has continued to increase around the world despite moves by Donald Trump’s White House to cancel and derail low-carbon projects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Analysis by IEEFA shows that many of the QLD mines now shutting down are “zombie mines” - operations previously mothballed as uneconomic, then temporarily restarted during coal price spikes and now uneconomic again as prices return to normal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The task we face is to rapidly phase out fossil fuels. It's abundantly clear that fossil fuels are already on their way out and their demise would be greatly accelerated if we simply stopped funding their extraction. www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...

Here's the uncomfortable truth: institutional investors are paying premium prices for insurance-focused climate analytics that don't address their core investment needs. carbonalpha.substack.com/p/built-for-...

There is one sector where BP, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Eni are ahead of their U.S. peers: LNG trading. Now, Exxon and Chevron are trying to catch up. finance.yahoo.com/news/u-oil-g...

“Vested interests in maintaining use of fossil carbon have invested heavily in disinformation and this has increased the incidence of denial of scientific reality.” Garnaut blames the fossil fuel industry in part. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

The rapid build-out of American gas liquefaction capacity in recent years is poised to create a huge global supply glut, possibly comparable to last decade’s surge in U.S. shale oil output, which led to one of the biggest downturns in the sector's history. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

AGL Energy has warned it will not cross-subsidise Rio Tinto shareholders by supplying an uncommercial electricity contract for the miner’s Tomago aluminium smelter, amid crisis talks to prevent the facility shutting due to high energy costs. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/min...