Sustainable Development Report - 2021
'... achieving Sustainable Development Goals' the Sustainable Development Report 2021 and supplementary materials. (Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations)
Institute of Sustainable Futures helps shape UN Food Systems Summit
'ISF food systems expert Dr Federico Davila and partners The Pacific Community (SPC) help to include Pacific countries in the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit.' (University of Technology, Sydney) >
World Economic Forum, January 2021
Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast. Article by Peter Giger - at the World Economic Forum. (Group Chief Risk Officer, Zurich Insurance Group) >
NSW Electric Vehicle Strategy
'...the NSW Government’s plan to accelerate the State’s vehicle fleet of the future.' (NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment) >
Sustainable Mining and Development
The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development. Their Aim: ...'It is devoted to optimizing the benefits of mining to achieve poverty reduction, inclusive growth, social development, and environmental stewardship.' (The Intergovernmental Forum) >
World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2021
'The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth disillusionment, and geopolitical fragmentation. Businesses risk a disorderly shakeout which can exclude large cohorts of workers and companies from the markets of the future. Environmental degradation—still an existential threat to humanity—risks intersecting with societal fractures to bring about severe consequences.' (World Economic Forum) >
Australia: 80% emissions reduction
Australia: 80% emissions reduction by 2040 Technical Paper. (ANU Energy Change Institute) >
OVERTOURISM
Tourism and OverTourism - and their effect on the Planet. 'The carbon footprint of tourism' (Sustainable Travel International) >
Bush Fires in the Derwent Valley
Southern Tasmania in ‘pyro thundercloud’ firing line. (University of Tasmania) >
Electric Vehicle Submission to the Climate Change Bill 2020
EVC Submission to the Climate Change Bill 2020. (Relating to: the Climate Change Bills introduced to Australian Parliament by Zali Steggall MP) (Electric Vehicle Council, Sydney) >