Think pieces

ISF’s submission assesses Australian corporate net zero pledges against global best practice, highlighting data and disclosure gaps, and provides recommendations to strengthen Treasury’s climate transition planning guidance for credible, transparent decarbonisation.

Energy experts fear the growing number of power-hungry data centres could make electricity more expensive.

Google, Microsoft and Meta have all reported significant emissions increases due to AI write Gordon Noble and Fiona Berry.

ISF Research Director Gordon Noble writes for The Conversation to give insights into Australia's first green bond and what that means for sustainable finance.

ISF Research Director Gordon Noble provides evidence to the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into residential electrification on the ISF report Scaling Green Retrofit Housing Finance.

In many ways 2023 has been a big year for fighting climate change. In this podcast we look at the challenges ahead and the scale of the task of transitioning the world away from fossil fuels. To do this we need massive investments in renewables and a new way of financing and doing business.

Australia aspires not only to transition its economy to net zero emissions, but to become a green energy superpower.

Notes from presentation by UTS-ISF Research Director Gordon Noble’s presentation for the 2023 UNCTAD World Investment Forum session Getting Blended Finance Right at Scale on 20 October 2023.

Affordable, accessible credit that enables households to sustainably retrofit homes can support the transition to net zero emissions.

Our online lives and the massive digital infrastructure that supports them are eating up our carbon budgets. But who’s paying attention?

Read ISF's submission to the Australian Government's first Sustainable Finance Strategy of December 2023. We provide a detailed response aligned to the Strategy’s three pillars, highlighting areas where engagement by the Australian Government can support Australia’s net zero transition.

Businesses have a crucial role to play in decarbonisation, but are their net zero pledges and transition plans robust enough to make a difference? We assessed the pledges and plans of Australian corporates against the UN's recommendations to find out.