Environment/Sustainability
Career crossroads: Six skills business professionals need in 2025
Dr Asheley Jones, Chief Learning and Innovation Officer, CPA Australia. CPA Australia Australia’s leading professional accounting body, CPA Australia, has identified six key areas of skill and knowledge that business and finance professionals will need in 2025. “We’re seeing some strong career trends emerging, driven in part by new reporting requirements, a more complex regulatory […]
International Compost Alliance to celebrate World Soil Day
Clean organic stream The International Compost Alliance (ICA) is thrilled to announce its celebration of World Soil Day on the 5th of December, embracing the global theme for this year, ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage’, which stresses the importance of accurate soil data and information in understanding either: soils’ characteristics or soil characteristics and […]
Health blossoms thanks to Landcare work
Rosalynd O’Shannassy at work at the Whitebridge Landcare site Greening Lake Macquarie is therapeutic work for hundreds of Landcare volunteers across the city, but for Rosalynd O’Shannassy it is even more than that: it’s a driving force for healing. The 73-year-old cheated death 10 years ago after suffering a brain aneurysm, enduring a long road […]
Warming temperatures may shrink wetland carbon sinks
Paul York from James Cook University in North Queensland collecting a teabag from a seagrass meadow. Credit: Peter Davey RMIT University A major global study using teabags as a measuring device shows warming temperatures may reduce the amount of carbon stored in wetlands. The international team of scientists buried 19,000 bags of green tea and […]
TEM and Wilderlands lead the way in combining carbon reduction with biodiversity protection
Tasman Environmental Markets (TEM), a leading Asia-Pacific carbon offset solutions provider, and biodiversity credit project developer Wilderlands are redefining corporate sustainability as their Extended Impact product swiftly becomes a fastest growing solution for Aussie businesses. Since launching in September, 15 organisations, including Matchbox Pictures, ACOR Consultants and Laneway Music Festival, have invested in the solution, permanently protecting over […]
Events deliver impact in Melbourne, Geelong and beyond
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Trust (MCET), operators of the globally renowned Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) and the future Nyaal Banyul Geelong Convention and Event Centre, have released their Annual Report and Impact Report, highlighting their important role in driving economic, social and environmental impact. In 2023-24, MCET generated $777 million in economic impact […]
