Climateworks has been a leading voice on climate solutions since 2009. In the 15 years since our founding, ‘net zero’ has gone from a footnote to an accepted inevitability.

How quickly the Australia–Southeast Asia region reaches net zero is up to all of us. It will take ambition and hard work from all corners, and we are under no illusions that the work is easy.

It is thanks to supporters like you that we have helped move the dial on climate action. 

Our work has been welcomed or commissioned – and implemented – by key players, including:

• multiple state governments and big banks who adopted the first formal net zero targets after receiving our decarbonisation pathways advice
• the Australian Government, whose first submission of its national commitment to the Paris Agreement, cites our net zero pathways potential
• investment managers for whom we created the first ever forward-looking green equities index for the ASX300, and the first tracker of the corporate net zero alignment

And where there were not key players in the field gathering on net zero, we helped create them:

• doing the first Australia-wide assessment of electric vehicles led to the creation of the industry group that became the EV Council
• convening over a dozen of the biggest mining and resources companies and investors over four years to co-create the first ever Paris-aligned net zero pathways for Australia’s heavy industry sectors, which then informed legislation and billions of dollars of new budget programs
• advising on the mandate of the newly legislated Net Zero Economy Authority; and Australia’s first green investment bank (the CEFC), whose early strategy was informed by our economy-wide analysis of decarbonisation opportunities and barriers
• gathering all relevant state and territory government departments together on best practices for net zero
• convening six leading Indonesian expert groups to advise the G20 energy ministers on matters beyond their formal agenda.

Plus, broadening our analysis to reflect that nature and net zero are fundamentally linked:

• showing for the first time how much ocean-based mitigation actions in Indonesia can contribute to Indonesia’s climate target – analysis that is now shaping the next NDC
• creating a new land sector model for Australia that includes biodiversity so we can work towards net zero at the same time as food production and nature restoration
• developing the first natural capital measurement catalogue to make it easier to scale investment in nature repair.

The world is in a race against time on climate impacts. We know that every tenth of a degree of avoided warming matters exponentially. And while the fear of those harms drives us, so too does the sense of opportunity – it is more clear than ever that this is a race we want to win.

Join us as we strive to future-proof our economy, the environment and limit global temperature rise.