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Electrification is no longer just a climate conversation. It’s an economic one

Australia has spent years building one of the world’s great renewable energy stories.

by Davina Rooney, Green Building Council of Australia

News from the Front Desk

On highlights from Transition Risk Melbourne

by The Fifth Estate – our view

Environment

Greens and environmental supporters split over forest carbon credit scheme

by Bevin Liu

Transition Risk Masterclass

How to capitalise on new energy, electrification and ESG reporting and avoid stranded assets.

by The Fifth Estate

TRANSITION RISK READS

When the CFO asks, ‘where do I even start?’ Joshua Martin on the reporting risks about to hit property

by Tina Perinotto

At Green Square, a public school breaks tradition and wins the community

Green Square Public School in Sydney, designed by BVN was a major departure from regular public schools. The project has won important architecture awards, but it’s also been celebrated for its challenge to tradition and the way it’s allowed a school and its community to blend and reinforce connections.

Arts and Letters

The long road from short order cook to planning professional

by Philip Bull, Civic Assessment

Spinifex

One third of Australians are locked out of the energy transition – plug in solar could change that

by Dr Gill Armstrong, Climateworks and Mia Dewar, Climateworks

Spinifex

We designed the office for efficiency and now we need to design it for cognition

by Angela Ferguson, NeuroHaven

News from the Front Desk

On what happened at Carbon Triggers

by The Fifth Estate – our view

TFE events

The biggest question is the cost of inaction – Adam Murchie on balancing investor and planetary value

by Tina Perinotto

Climate Change

SLR and what the data and science can tell business about the polycrisis

by Tina Perinotto

Spinifex

Flood risk? Here’s how governments, insurers and property professionals can help

Ransi Salika Athauda, Dulani Halvitigala, Rebecca Leshinsky, and Kusal Nanayakkara, RMIT

NEWS FROM THE FRONT (CONTINUED)

Transforming regions: Part 5, Freight, energy and regional sovereignty: planning infrastructure for the future

Australia’s regional freight debate is often framed as a contest between rail and trucks when both should be used to improve energy and regional sovereignty, significantly…

by Ray Wills, University of Western Australia and Peter Newman, Curtin University

Spinifex

Electrification is no longer just a climate conversation. It’s an economic one

Australia has spent years building one of the world’s great renewable energy stories.

News from the Front Desk

On highlights from Transition Risk Melbourne

Transition Risk at the Melbourne Town Hall on Tuesday was a standout deep dive on what’s at risk for buildings that don’t electrify and the rewards for those…

Environment

Greens and environmental supporters split over forest carbon credit scheme

Green’s leader and Senator Larissa Waters is officially making her party’s position clear that it would be voting with the Labor government on Thursday afternoon to allow a…