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Environment/Sustainability

NEW report finds “there is no addressing the climate crisis without addressing the debt crisis”

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, […]

FM Announces US$400 Million ‘Resilience Credit’ to Support Client Investment in Climate Resilience

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 […]

GARDENING IS HELPING TO HEAL VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES ACROSS NSW, NEW STUDY SHOWS

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 […]

Sydney ranked in world’s top ten sustainable cities

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 ‘What the Trees See’ up for $40,000 Literary Award

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 […]
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KPMG launches global ESG Academy, in collaboration with Microsoft

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 […]

Xpansiv to Launch Live, Two-Way Trading for Carbon Credits and International RECs

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 ·    […]

RACV NAMES CHEAPEST ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR 2023

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 […]

Project to look at climate impacts on Northern Australia’s turtle populations

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 […]

AgriProve delivers another issuance of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in Dungog NSW

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 […]

Restoring Ecosystems in Australia with the help of International experts

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 […]
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