As policymakers convene for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meetings, a new report by the Expert Review on Debt, Nature and Climate documents the extent to which unsustainable debt burdens, loss of nature and escalating climate change are compounding one another in a hugely destructive ‘triple crisis.’ Commissioned by the governments of Colombia, Kenya, […]
With its third resilience credit, FM will have allocated more than US$1 billion to help clients protect their purpose over the last three years Commercial property insurer FM today announced its third resilience credit, bringing the total allocation to more than US$1 billion since the program’s inception in 2022. The recent catastrophic hurricane events in the southeastern […]
Botanic Gardens of Sydney New research has revealed how harnessing the power of plants through the Botanic Gardens of Sydney’s Community Greening program is improving the health and well-being of vulnerable and at-risk communities. A new paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology has identified community gardening as a successful nature prescription tool to address social […]
Credit: Daniel Tran/City of Sydney City of Sydney Sydney has been named the number one Australian city on the Global Destination Sustainability Index, reaffirming it as a top location for business events and visitors. Announced in Belgium, the index ranked Sydney 10th out of more than 100 cities, achieving its highest ever score. Melbourne finished […]
Dave Witty’s book ‘What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia’, is one of the six shortlisted finalists for this year’s $40,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, an annual celebration of the very best of Australian research-based literature. The book examines aspects of Australia’s history through our indigenous and […]
AWS-Reverse-Logistics-FA-Testing-Lab Author: Ken Haig, Head, Energy and Environmental Policy, APAC, Amazon Web Services As we continue to innovate and empower Australia towards a digital future, it is important that we are investing and innovating in sustainability to help create a more sustainable future. Everything that happens online today is facilitated by data centres. Incredibly, innovation and […]
Le Champlain Le Champlain, one of the six PONANT Explorers series vessels, is to run on B100 biofuel produced from recycled cooking oil. Carried out with ALTENS, the trial is the first in France and underlines PONANT’s commitment to reducing its CO2 emissions by 30% per navigation day by 2030[1]. “This first marine biofuel test […]
Flinders University researchers are among some of the world’s leading marine biotech scientists who are gathering in Adelaide next week. The latest developments in first-generation fisheries, second-gen aquaculture as well as advanced third-gen marine bioproducts developments and processing are all on the agenda during the five-day event, says conference Chair and Convenor, Flinders Professor Wei Zhang. It […]
The Boomerang Alliance has cautiously welcomed the progress report released at the recent National Soft Plastics Summit. ‘’The plans developed by the Food and Grocery Council are beginning to open the doors to a potential scheme for producer responsibility. An important advance are the promising results of trials using local government kerbside collections. However, a lot […]
• Australia has built a reputation as a leader in agritech and has cemented international recognition as a global frontrunner in the agtech arena • The Australia – UK Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) came into effect May 23 and has opened up bilateral trade between the two countries, reducing import tariffs and paving the way […]
Large Urban Network Model Australian climate tech leader to continue expansion, alleviating primary constraint in global energy transition Latest funding round will be used to accelerate global expansion in the United States and Europe Neara, a leading climate tech software platform enabling the clean energy transition, has closed a $15.25 million funding round to support further […]