Investing in Climate Chaos
Fossil Fuel Investment Report: Investing in Climate Chaos 'Over 6,500 institutional investors are holding bonds and shares in coal, oil and gas companies worth a total of US$ 3.07 trillion.' (Investing in Climate Chaos - Urgewald. Sassenberg, Germany) >
Is the Finance Sector Bankrupting the Planet?
'The vast majority of financing decisions do not take planetary boundaries into account, and this has to change.' (The Ecologist, England) >
Don’t #@!% the Planet
'This is Atlassian’s climate story: building a sustainability program from the ground up' ... Stories, pointers, and lessons learned on our journey to a net-zero future. (Atlassian, Sydney) >
Time to Pay the Piper
Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages. 'The calls for climate reparations are rapidly growing in the scientific literature, among climate movements, and in the policy debate'. (One Earth Journal) >
Corporation Carbon Emissions
One-third of carbon emissions attributed to a small number of major global corporations. "The top 20 produced fuels that comprised 29.5 percent of emissions, while the top 10 account for 15.8 percent." (Climate Accountability Institute) >
RECYCLING - Circular Economy
Re-use generates wealth through permanent employment, provides a library of parts stimulating repair and recreation activities of other businesses and people, conserves embedded carbon in products and parts already in circulation, and ensures product and material longevity because great stuff gets new values from new owners' (The Recovery Circular Hub, Glenorchy, Hobart) >
Understanding Adaptive Capacity
...A tool for economic transition planning 'The economic transition away from fossil fuels will disproportionately affect some Australian communities with currently large industry concentrations in the fossil fuel sector' (The Centre for Policy Development, Melbourne) >
A Blueprint for Better, Cleaner Jobs
'The next five to ten years are crucial to ensure that the worst outcomes of the climate crisis are mitigated, and we have a unique opportunity to reframe our economy in the interests of the people who work within it.' (Per Capita, Melbourne) >
Boosting International Private Climate Finance
'The role of central banks, financial regulators and sectoral coalitions' (Chatham House, London) >
The Nine Planetary Boundaries
'Estimates of how the different control variables for seven planetary boundaries have changed from 1950 to present. The green shaded polygon represents the safe operating space.' (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden) >