Sustainability is an important global business driver and is making its way into corporate boardrooms. Mounting evidence shows firms that invest in improved sustainability practices outperform their competitors. There is growing awareness that emerging sustainability risks can have a material …
The IEA training manual volume 2 analyses the results of recent research on climate change, its impact on cities and options for responding. This module aims to strengthen awareness on possible impacts of climate change, while providing decision makers with …
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The Botany Bay Water Quality Improvement Program has co-funded a number of water quality improvement projects throughout that catchment. The total value of these water quality improvement projects is now well over $4 million and the projects are treating more …
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Australia21 is a non-profit body that seeks to develop new insights into complex issues important to Australia’s future. The Australia21 Board has become increasingly concerned that a number of grave challenges are being ignored, bypassed or placed in the “too hard” …
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“There’s an activist in all of us and you don’t have to shout to be heard”. This is Satish Kumar’s call to action for each and every single one of you to discover your own inner activist. Join the online …
The new book Engaged Environmental Citizenship brings together a diverse range of people to cast a critical look at how people identify and act as environmental citizens, and explores that dialectic between citizens and the institutional structures that enable or …
In 1989, CSIRO published the report, ‘Regreening Australia: The environmental, economic and social benefits of reforestation’, a preliminary investigation into a large national program to ‘regreen Australia’ through massive reforestation and revegetation over a period of 10 to 20 years. …
The Science Daily article Scientific Consensus On Anthropogenic Climate Change reports that a comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. The study …
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Produced by the Climate Commission, The Critical Decade: Global Action Building on Climate Change presents an overview of progress in international action on climate change since August 2012, with a particular focus on China and the US. The report also …
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The urban environment is particularly exposed to climate impacts, due to a range of factors, such as its geographical location, spatial immobility, and high population. A major policy and knowledge gap exists in the social scientific understanding of the private …
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