Alternative Employment in a Non-Carbon World
How can coal workers benefit from a renewables jobs boom? 'Renewable energy will be a major source of employment and can play an important role in transition for coal regions, but much depends on policy decisions made today.' (Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney) >
Tracking Carbon Emissions of Australian Businesses
'Access ESG* insights on any business in Australia.' - * Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (Purpose Bureau, Sydney) >
International Sustainability Standards Board
'The IFRS Foundation is a not-for-profit, public interest organisation established to develop a single set of high-quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted accounting and sustainability disclosure standards—IFRS Standards—and to promote and facilitate adoption of the standards.' (International Sustainability Standards Board, London) >
Australian Actuaries Climate Index
Australian Actuaries Association has launched a Climate Index. '...tracks changes in the frequency of extreme high and low temperatures, heavy precipitation, dry days, strong wind and changes in sea level, mainly concentrating on the 99th percentile of observations.' (The Institute of Actuaries Australia, Sydney) >
Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022
'The rapid acceleration of corporate climate pledges, combined with the fragmentation of approaches means that it is more difficult than ever to distinguish between real climate leadership and unsubstantiated greenwashing.' (NewClimate Institute, Cologne, Germany) >
Train or plane?
'Travelling by plane, train or automobile: the most environmentally sound choice may not always be clear.' (European Environment Agency, Luxembourg) >
Finance: Towards Net Zero (Australia)
'How the top Australian companies report on climate risk and decarbonisation.' (KPMG Australia) >
Finance: Towards net zero
How the world’s largest companies report on climate risk and net zero transition. (KPMG IMPACT) >
Sustainable Consumption
Sustainable Consumption beyond the Growth Economy: 'This innovative research program explores the problematic issues of our current growth-orientated economy.' (Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne) >
Economic Impacts of Climate Tipping Points
'Tipping points in the climate system are one of the principal reasons for concern about climate change. Climate economists have only recently begun incorporating them in economic models. We synthesize this emerging literature and provide unified, geophysically realistic estimates of the economic impacts of eight climate tipping points with an emphasis on the social cost of carbon, a key policy input.' (National Academy of Sciences USA, Washington, DC.) >