On 11 January 2021, over 50 countries committed to protecting 30 per cent of the planet over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues. These countries included France, UK, Japan, Italy and Ireland. Australia was, embarrassingly, not in this group of over 50 countries making this commitment. It seems
Shutterstock Mark Maund, University of Newcastle; Kim Maund, University of Newcastle; Marcus Jefferies, University of Newcastle, and SueAnne Ware, University of Newcastle In cities around the world, temperatures could rise by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change scenario, suggests research published this week in Nature Climate Change. It comes as the
Daniel D’Hotman, University of Oxford and Steven Hamilton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. Zero marginal cost, zero emissions energy is now a reality. Wind and solar are cheaper sources of new electricity than coal in most cases, putting significant pressure on the profitability
A protest march in Kolkata in support of farmers. Women have been central to the recent protests. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Navjotpal Kaur, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Sumeet Sekhon, University of British Columbia As temperatures plummet, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children continue to spend bone-chilling days and nights in makeshift shelters across
I have to be honest, I do not understand how we, as a society continue to allow the detrimental impacts of carbon emissions by business to not be costed and reflected in the price of their product or service. In business, all costs incurred should be considered in determining profit, but the destruction of our
Fortescue has announced, for itself, an emissions reduction goal of net zero operational emissions by 2040 underpinned by a pathway to decarbonisation, including the reduction of Scope 1 and 2 emissions from Existing Operations by 26 per cent from 2020 levels, by 2030. Further information on its approach can be found at https://www.fmgl.com.au/workingresponsibly/climate-change-and-energy
On 4 December 2020, Downer’s case study noted that it had completed Australia’s largest Sustainability Linked loan in 2020. More information can be found at: https://www.downergroup.com/downer-completes-australias-largest-sustainab An outline of Downer’s position on climate change can be found at https://www.downergroup.com/climate-change-faq Downer commits to the decarbonisation of its absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by
