Heavy industry in Australia could decarbonise, help limit warming to 1.5 degrees and create up to 1.35 million jobs: new report outlines pathways... 'Positioning Australian industry to prosper in a net zero global economy’, was prepared for the Australian Industry ETI by Climateworks and CSIRO, in consultation with industry and research partners'. (Climateworks Centre, Melbourne) >

Australia urgently needs a dedicated, independently administered fund to meet the escalating costs of natural disasters due to global warming. (The Australia Institute, Canberra) >

'This research shows that the Big Tech companies do not appear to be matching their huge economic footprint with corresponding strategic support for strong government action to implement the Paris Agreement.' (InfluenceMap, London) >

'If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions we should not pay people to burn fossil fuels.' (Our World in Data, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford) >

'The dangerous impacts of aerosol changes on vulnerable regions should have been a priority at COP27 after climate policymakers agreed a breakthrough deal to support these parts of the world, scientists have claimed.' (Center for International Climate Research, Norway) >

'A COP failure was avoided, but it was only a very moderate success for the climate.' (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) >

Greenwashing Governments and Oil Companies Turned COP27 Into a Climate Disaster 'Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process more effectively than ever' (TRUTHOUT, Sacramento, California USA) >

Gladstone region moving away from Fossil Fuels, to Renewables. 'In an Australian first, Gladstone Regional Council has launched its 10-year economic transition roadmap to support and guide the region to becoming a renewable energy superpower.' (Gladstone Regional Council, Queensland) >

'Change is heading in the right direction at a promising but insufficient speed for six indicators, and in the right direction but well below the required pace for 21. Change in another five indicators is heading in the wrong direction entirely, and data are insufficient to evaluate the remaining eight.' (Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany and Perth, Australia) >

'Climate Club' proposal by Lord Nicholas Stern and his co-authors for a 'Climate Club' to fund Developing Countries cut their emissions and deal with climate disasters presented to the COP27 Climate Conference. (London School of Economics, UK) >