New analysis has found that 68% of companies in the Global 100 list have targets to lower emissions and/or purchase clean energy.
Economist Ross Garnaut says economic growth is ‘not inherently in conflict with conservation of the natural environment.’
HSBC says the world is rapidly depleting its carbon budget, approaching ‘Peak Planet’ and must achieve a peak in emissions by 2020, leaving much of its fossil fuels in the ground. Impossible? HSBC says not, and is encouraged by growing public awareness, favourable economic drivers and falling technology costs for renewables.
IEA report card on the global Sustainable Energy for All challenge shows we could be – and should be – doing a whole lot better.
Earth’s land, oceans and biosphere are now in extreme danger, but this doesn’t seem to be driving the urgent measures required to arrest current trends.
The cost of legacy coal assets may appear cheap, but the community pays the true cost in many other ways, most of all in health.
Australian Greens leader reads riot act to Labor, the Coalition and big business, and says her party alone stands for sustainability and a safe climate.
The equation of humankind’s wellbeing with economic growth is taken as given. But we cannot ignore the fact that there is a serious downside.
Much of the stuff that drives economic growth is really very silly. The transition to a more meaningful measure can’t come soon enough.
How can a growing population with growing affluence sustain itself on a finite planet without wreaking havoc on nature and civilisation?
Westpac’s head of emissions and environment says the bank plans to double its exposure to cleantech and sees sustainability as an ‘investment megatrend’.
Banking group to spend $6bn on clean technology and environmental services lending, in new five-year, $8bn sustainability strategy.
In a speech this week, Paul Gilding said the world was ‘locked in’ for a sustainability crisis that would trigger world-changing climate impacts and resource conflicts. The only question now is how will we respond? Will this be a century of chaos or a few decades of messy but successful transition?
This is a crucial year for dialogue between environmental and business groups. Will we see collaboration or conflict? And who has the most to lose?
Agricultural runoff is a major issue for the GBR, but is being managed with some success. The major coal port development, however, not so much.
A new report on China’s ecological footprint says that humanity, as a whole, overshot the Earth’s sustainability threshold back in the early 1970s.
The federal government’s long-awaited Energy White Paper has trumpeted the benefits of fossil fuels, while ignoring the costs – the toll on human health.
Retailer plans €1.5bn investment in wind, solar in sustainability strategy. Plus Combet’s green windfall call; Japan’s renewables shift; and corporate water stress.
