For low-income communities around the world, climate innovations can prove still inaccessible, irrelevant or even futile. If we are all to take part in restoring our planet’s health — which is necessary if we wish to see significant progress on the climate front — innovation will have to expand beyond its current boundaries.

A growing cadre of people, many of them young, are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As the world sizes up the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, new approaches are emerging that are set to address both.

Frustrated by a lack of reliable and credible market supply of carbon offsets, Telstra says it will instead bolster its own stocks by planting 240 hectares of land in northern NSW to store greenhouse gas emissions.

A variety of Australian startups are connecting customers and farms directly – removing the middleman and eliminating food waste in the process.

NVIDIA has revealed plans to build the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting climate change.

Funding for early-stage and brand new tech to help cut carbon emissions is surging

Corporate venture capital investments in climate tech businesses more than doubled in 2021, setting a new record. Last year, these types of funds funelled $23.2 billion into the sector, which includes renewable energy, energy storage and electric vehicles, among others.

Impact investment company Elbow Beach Capital has launched a venture vehicle with an initial £20 million of committed capital. It is looking to make investments both within the U.K., where it is headquartered, and globally

Hysata, an Australian hydrogen technology company, has developed an ultra-high efficiency electrolyser, a major breakthrough in the industry’s attempt to reach the commercialisation milestone of producing a kilogram of hydrogen for under $2.

Atlassian’s sustainability report covers our impacts on climate change, customer trust, diversity and belonging, and investing in education worldwide.

A WWF-Australia report reveals more than 1,500 of the country’s unique ecosystems are lacking protection

Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease.

Sydney Impact Investing (SUIIS) in partnership with Beckon Capital are running a competition for impact startups.

Avarni is developing a new format to report the Scope 3 emissions of Qantas.

Tech companies founded and led by women perform better and make more money than those led by men - and the venture capital sector is starting to catch on.

Their second fund was raised in a month. Climate is one of their key pillars.