Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Catchment Management: A User Guide provides step-by-step instructions for an assessment of the potential for climate change adaptation of natural resource management (NRM) actions. This assessment uses a Catchment Assessment Framework (CAF), a process-based tool …
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Local Government NSW (LGNSW) has announced the winners and finalists in the LGNSW Excellence in the Environment Awards.
Version 1 of The Plant List aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled …
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The Centre for an Urban Future is a New York City think tank dedicated to highlighting the critical opportunities and challenges facing New York and other cities, and providing fresh ideas and workable solutions to policymakers.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified natural ecosystems as being the most vulnerable sector in Australia to the negative impacts of climate change. The Terrestrial Report Card 2013 summarises knowledge on climate change impacts in Australian …
The Ideas for Sustainability blog is written by Professor Joern Fischer and his collaborators. They use it to share exciting new ideas with the world, and to reflect on issues of sustainability and global change. Their aim is to engage …
On 31 October 2012, the Senate referred the matter of ‘The effectiveness of threatened species and ecological communities protection in Australia’ to the Environment and Communications References Committee for inquiry and report. The inquiry report is now available.
British Columbia’s pioneering carbon tax shift, passed in 2008, has been remarkably effective in reducing fuel use, with no apparent adverse impact on the province’s economy. These findings come from a new study by Sustainable Prosperity researchers to be published …
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The Keep Australia Beautiful National Litter Index (NLI) is Australia’s only national, annual, quantitative measure of what litter occurs where and in what volume. Litter counts are done twice annually across 983 sites nationally to create an annual report on …
The first comprehensive, nationwide plan to fix Australia’s buildings’ energy use and greenhouse impact has been launched. The Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan – a joint project of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions and The University of Melbourne Energy …