In December 2024, the Federal Government unveiled Australia’s Circular Economy Framework, presenting a national strategy to double the country's circularity rate by 2035 and shift from the traditional 'take-make-dispose' model to a sustainable circular system.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) play an increasingly important role in advancing Australia’s environmental infrastructure, promoting collaboration between the public and private sectors to achieve sustainable outcomes across the energy, water, and waste sectors.

Sphere Infrastructure Partners provides a summary of recent state and territory budget announcements and their implications for the energy, water, and waste sectors. Discover more via the link below.

Sphere Infrastructure Partners proudly presents the inaugural edition of Sphere Insights, a series dedicated to exploring key developments in the energy, water, and waste sectors. In this first instalment, Partner and Co-founder Kate Dryden offers her expert perspectives on industry trends, challenges, and emerging opportunities

Key highlights from Sphere’s presentation, delivered at the Enviro Conference 2024 by Associate, Ken Baumli.

Welcome to the final instalment of our three-part series on environmental infrastructure in Australia. In this update, we summarise Australia’s renewable energy landscape, focusing on the federal, state and territory governments' policies, strategies and programs to achieve the nation’s net zero objectives.

Key highlights from Sphere’s presentation (Infrastructure Procurement), delivered at the Waste 2024 conference by Partner and Co-founder, Chris Godrey.

There are various overarching policies put forth by the federal government to encourage investment in the resource recovery sector. We have sought to analyse the effectiveness and implementation of these policies., while highlight the strengths and shortcomings of the current investment policies. We assess whether these have translated into tangible outcomes, and if there has been progress in line with the set targets.

Welcome to the second instalment of our three-part series on environmental infrastructure in Australia. In this update, we share a select number of observations on the waste sector and focus on the broader strategies announced by state governments to encourage waste reuse and increase resource recovery rates.

Welcome to the first instalment of our three-part series on environmental infrastructure in Australia. In this article, we delve into the water sector, exploring recent developments in national water project upgrades and investments.

In the September article, Sphere Infrastructure Partners consider the suitedness of Alliance Contracting and the Delivery Partner Model to support the transformation of Australia’s infrastructure sector.

Key highlights from Sphere’s presentation (Challenges of procuring FOGO solutions), delivered in partnership with SOILCO, at the 2022 Australasian Waste and Recycling Expo.

Infrastructure NSW released the fourth edition of the State Infrastructure Strategy (2022-2042). The Strategy reinforces the importance of developing more resilient and climate independent water sources and introduces resource recovery infrastructure to the recommendations list.

Key highlights from Sphere’s presentation, in partnership with Beatty Hughes & Associates, titled ‘The waste infrastructure landscape: How do we remove the roadblocks and get what we need?’

Key highlights from the ‘AORA Workshop - FOGO by 2030’ session at the Waste 2022 Conference, with Boyd Russell participating as a Q&A panel member.

With the launch of a new year year Sphere is looking a little different. After almost four years the Sphere team has refreshed the firm's brand identity.

More resource recovery and recycling infrastructure is urgently required in Australia to achieve emissions reduction and landfill avoidance targets. There are multiple parties ready, willing and able to provide the technical solutions and fund the projects. So what is missing?

The waste industry has received significant attention in recent years partly due to constraints on domestic waste infrastructure. As the Australian population grows, and communities seek more sustainable methods to manage their waste, the demand for waste infrastructure is high

In early November 2019, Commonwealth, state and territory Environment Ministers (through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG)) agreed that certain waste plastic, paper, glass and tyre waste should be banned from export from Australia.