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 […]
KPMG to launch a dedicated ESG Academy, in collaboration with Microsoft and leading universities, to empower and inform business leaders and employees on climate and sustainability KPMG has launched the KPMG ESG Academy in collaboration with Microsoft and some of the world’s leading universities and institutions. The scalable, turnkey academy leverages the KPMG Learning Enablement and […]
Platform Enhancements, Including ACR Removal Tags, Added as Active Participants Sets Record · Live bids and offers will enhance active, transparent price discovery and centralized liquidity formation on Xpansiv CBL, the largest spot exchange for carbon offsets and RECs · Active companies trading offsets on CBL up 21% YoY in Q2 · […]
MG ZS Excite at RACV Cape Schanck Resort. RACV RACV has revealed the MG ZS Excite Standard Range RWD Wagon as the cheapest electric vehicle (EV) to own and operate for the second year in a row. Released as part of RACV’s Annual Car Running Costs Survey, the EV affordability data captures the overall cost of […]
Pictured; CDU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Rogers, AIMS researcher Dr Vinay Udyawer, CDU PhD candidate Ruth Patterson, CDU Senior Research Fellow and project lead Dr Rachel Groom and Member for Solomon Luke Gosling. Charles Darwin University A new project, between Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and indigenous ranger groups, will […]
McLachlan Carbon Project at Rocking Chair Farm at Marshdale near Dungog, NSW, has generated 2,110 ACCUs under the Emmissions Reduction Fund (ERF) in two years on 73.6 hectares with 1114mm rainfall. It is also the second project to go through AgriProve’s Carbon Intensity Assessment. This shows landholders John Monaghan and business partner Alan Smith successfully […]
Restoration Decade Alliance Over 800 ecosystem restoration experts from across the globe are gathering in Darwin for the 10th Society on Ecological Restoration (https://ser2023.org/) from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th of September, the largest conference of its kind ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost 34 mammals to […]