Businesses keep a careful eye on money coming in and going out of their accounts. Expenses are recorded and categorised, receipts are kept on file, and charter rules and reporting standards guide businesses to ensure accurate information is submitted for regulatory...
Carbon Neutrality
As the world becomes more aware of the negative impact of carbon dioxide emissions, achieving carbon neutrality has become increasingly important.
We delve into the importance of achieving carbon neutrality, reducing carbon emissions, and the various offsetting mechanisms available. Our aim is to provide valuable insights into working towards a sustainable future.
Climate Active Seeking Public Consultation on 8 Proposed Changes
After prolonged criticism and in the wake of the Chubb Review into Australia’s ACCU carbon credit scheme, Climate Active is seeking public consultation on proposed changes. So, what exactly are the proposed changes and how would they impact organisations?
Turning green to gold, Australia has to make its own luck in the race to renewables
It seems that Australia’s a-ha moment has now arrived in the clean energy transition. It’s a moment in which the country realises that having natural ability alone doesn’t make you a winner
How to shift the dial with high rise carbon negative apartments
With his plan to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower in South Perth, Grange Development’s James Dibble insists he is not trying to revolutionise building in one go but to significantly shift the dial. If the 50-storey tower is approved by the City of South...
Focus on renewables the only solution as energy bills continue to rise
Energy prices are on the rise, but is the transition to renewables to blame? The Australian Energy Regulator states that soaring prices are largely due to “reductions in thermal generation resulting from unplanned outages and higher coal and gas prices”.
Investa future-proofs its portfolio by setting 100 per cent green finance target by 2025
Investa Property Group believes that years of sustainability planning and ambitious emissions reduction targets have already positioned the business well to adapt to any new environmental regulations that may impact the built environment sector in the wake of the...
New Zealand has just set its first carbon budget – here’s how Jacinda Ardern plans to meet it
Electric vehicles, efficient power grids, waste recycling, and improved public transport are all key elements of New Zealand's recently released carbon budget that aims to reduce its GHG emissions to 10 per cent below 2017 levels by 2030, and zero by 2050.
Coal price spike shows how renewables short circuit campaign climate wars
Australian electricity prices surge as the global power crunch triggered by war in Ukraine see's international demand for black coal spike. New South Wales and Queensland, the states most reliant on black coal, have the highest wholesale power prices in the nation and...
Tasmania goes into carbon negative, with researchers saying native forests must be preserved
Tasmania is leading the way in sustainable forestry management achieving carbon negative status according to scientists from the Australian National University and Griffith University. Researchers estimate that Tasmanian forests sequester roughly 22 million tons of...