Warsaw, Poland, 18 November 2013 (COP 19) – Speaking to the International Coal and Climate Summit, organized by the Polish government and the World Coal Association, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Category Archives: International sustainable development
This article by Alana Grech; Bob Pressey, James Cook University, and Rob Coles, James Cook University, highlights the risks of development on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Queensland and Australian government’s draft strategic assessment of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area has been released today.
The strategic assessment was prompted by the.
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By Rachel Alembakis for The Sustainability Report, 27 September 2013: The United Nations Statistics Division has developed an experimental ecosystem accounting system to quantify ecosystem services and conditions in physical and monetary terms. Although the proposed accounting system is initially intended for governmental use, accounting professionals say that it could be used to develop accounting.
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27 September 2013: The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Summary for Policymakers following the Twelfth Session of Working Group I (WGI-12) held from 23 to 26 September 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. The full report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is so long.
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27 September 2013: The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Summary for Policymakers following the Twelfth Session of Working Group I (WGI-12) held from 23 to 26 September 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. The full report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is so long.
The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment Report (AR5) on 27 September here but in the meantime, here is some background put together by Neville Nicholls, Monash University
The latest climate change assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,.
(New York, 20 September 2013) – Over a thousand CEOs and C-suite executives drawn to New York for the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit are expected to endorse an architecture to engage corporations unveiled by the United Nations Secretary-General this morning..
New York, 5 September 2013 – Today the United Nations Global Compact released its flagship Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2013. Based on survey responses from nearly 2,000 companies across 113 countries, the report provides a snapshot of the actions taken by business to embed responsible practices.
By Heinz Schandl, CSIRO and Thomas Wiedmann
For some time Australians have been considered among the biggest consumers of natural resources in the world. According to previous studies, we each get through 70 tonnes of materials every year. This is way higher than other developed nations. But could something be influencing these figures?
Traditional.
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By Stuart Rosewarne
Burning coal is the one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, but mining expansion continues apace in Australia. Given the all-but unqualified support of federal and state governments for new mining ventures, there is the very real prospect that.
By Michael Parker, The Conversation
22 August 2013: Regardless of economic strength or level of development, countries with substantial fossil fuel resources are almost certain to be heavy carbon polluters – a phenomenon dubbed the “carbon curse”.
A study by Oxford University academics Joerg Friedrichs and Oliver Inderwildi published in the journal Energy Policy suggests.
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