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Decarbonisation

Cutting emissions from heavy industry

Reports
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Climate Reality Check
Warming beyond 1.5°C is imminent; only emergency-scale action can prevent catastrophic, irreversible, self-reinforcing climate impacts this century.
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War: What Is It Good For?
A full-scale, WWII-level mobilisation is now essential to prevent climate collapse and restore safe climate conditions.
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Climate Code Red
This urgent call for immediate climate action reshaped global approaches and framed climate change as an emergency.
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Papers
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A Safe Climate Means Cooling the Planet
A safe climate requires cutting emissions, removing excess carbon and investigating safe ways to cool the planet.
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Searching for climate action’s missing goal
1.5°C should be treated as a risk threshold, not an endpoint.
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Accelerating Climate Disruption
The strategy to reduce, remove and repair.
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Reclaiming “Climate Emergency”
How should the term “climate emergency” be understood?
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Climate Contagion
An economic tipping point signals fossil-fuel decline, new economy growth, and urgent financial contagion preparedness.
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Australian Local Government Climate Emergency Declarations
How climate emergency declarations influence Australian councils' policies.
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Articles
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Insights
Forging the Electric Age
Industrial electrification will shape the next global economic order.
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Insights
The Grid Next Door
Solar, wind, and sodium: the clean power trio Australia isn’t using fast enough.
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Podcasts
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Facing the World at 3°C
The catastrophic risks of a 3°C world and the urgent need for honest climate risk assessment and decisive leadership.
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Cooling a Livable Planet
Outdated risk models and delayed action are pushing us toward dangerous climate thresholds.
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Projects
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Advocacy
Fund Climate Cooling Research
The Case For Applied Cooling Research
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Advocacy
Safe Climate Plan Project
A Whole-of-Society Framework for Restoring Safe Climate Conditions
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Strategic Capacity Project
Building the Conditions for Stronger Climate Responses
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Media
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Australia should join the global effort to cool the planet and fulfill its Antarctic responsibilities
Calls on the Australian Government to help lead a global mission to restore safe climate conditions, including urgent research into safe short-term planetary cooling.
11 July 2025
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Press
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Energy security is now inseparable from national security
Delayed investment in domestic clean energy is leaving critical national vulnerabilities dangerously exposed.
18 April 2026
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Net-zero emissions by 2050: leadership or climate colonialism?
How fast does Australia need to reduce greenhouse emissions to play its fair part in responding to the global climate emergency?
20 September 2023
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Corporate Australia in denial over climate change, former coal exec Ian Dunlop says
Not a single voice had been raised by peak business about the appointment of so-called climate change deniers to advise government.
15 August 2014
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Climate Code Red: In Conversation
Transitioning Australia entirely to renewable energy systems and transform our economy in ten years.
7 August 2008
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Contributors
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Brendan Condon

Climate, Carbon Drawdown and Ecological Restoration Specialist

Practitioner developing and delivering practical approaches to carbon drawdown, zero-carbon development, ecological restoration and climate change.

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Saul Griffith

Decarbonisation Engineer and Systems Innovator

Engineer designing electrification pathways accelerating energy transition and emissions reduction globally.

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Matthew Wright

Renewable Energy Analyst and Advocate

Clean energy expert promoting zero-carbon solutions, industrial transformation and sustainable infrastructure.

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