August 2015 - Getting to Sustainability Archive

Monthly Archives: August 2015

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August

2015 Australian business awards honour sustainable businesses and government initiatives

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In 2015, the winners of the Australian Business Award honour sustainable businesses and government initiatives including innovative eco products. Winners were announced on 14 August.

The Sustainability category recognises organisations that execute initiatives that demonstrate leadership and commitment to sustainable business practices. ABA100 Winners 2015.

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17
August

IGCC 2015 climate change investment and finance summit is coming

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The IGCC 2015 Climate Change Investment and Finance Summit is a unique event, in a catalytic year of progress as governments, capital markets and society address the economics of climate change. As economic growth decoupled from emissions for the first time in 2014.
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14
August

Responsible investment on the rise again to 50% of the investment industry

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11 August 2015: Responsible investment assets form an ever greater portion of the country’s investment industry reaching $630 billion of assets and showing no signs of slowing down. Launched today, the new report from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), the most comprehensive review of the responsible investment sector in Australia (now in its 14th year),.
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14
August

Australia’s climate politics on a high wire

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David Holmes, Monash University While the politicisation of climate change has transformed climate reporting into something of a circus, the Coalition’s announcement of a 26% emissions reduction target on 2005 levels for Australia by 2030 has surely placed its climate policy on a dangerous high wire. The high wire is not that the target has.
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14
August

Constructively framing a low-carbon future: ‘Scary science and happy economics: making sense of climate change’

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Julia Thornton discusses constructively framing a low-carbon future and climate change in conversations, business, policy and the media. Reproduced with permission from Dissent Magazine (Australia), Summer 2009/2010 1: What is going on? Climate change is complex. Taking the idea of climate change and making it into a clear picture of how you and I will live.
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4
August

Nominate for a Qld Premier’s Sustainability Award

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Nominations are now open for the 2015 Premier’s Sustainability Awards, which showcase the work of Queenslanders who are setting best-practice benchmarks in environmental performance with Queensland councils encouraged to nominate their energy, water and waste saving projects to be recognised for outstanding innovation that results in reduced environmental impact. Applications for the sustainability awards are open.
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