Sydney is set to stage its inaugural Climate Action Week Sydney next month which will see community organisations, climate start-ups, research institutions, students, investors, NGOs, corporate Australia and the broader community come together to explore how Sydney and Australia can accelerate climate action.

Breakthrough Victoria is investing $20 million in Victorian company RayGen Resources, with the investment designed to enable the State’s transition towards clean sources of energy.

GUEST OPINION by Peter White – Managing Director, APAC, Orbus Software: In an era marked by increasing environmental concerns and corporate social responsibility, enterprises are under mounting pressure to integrate sustainability into their operations.

Australia and Singapore, which is the world’s busiest transshipment hub, have partnered on a $20 million initiative to help reduce emissions in the maritime sector.

The take-up of electric vehicles in Australia is proceeding apace, with hybrids gaining the edge as the market share of vehicles running internal combustion engines continues to fall, the Australian Automobile Association says.

Australians report that their top three priorities of the country’s renewable energy transition are affordability, energy self-reliance and emissions reductions, with reliability being a close fourth, according to a new survey by the national science agency, CSIRO.

Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected “unusual radio pulses” from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.