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Sustainable Business Insights - April 2008 - Issue 20
 

An update of all things sustainability, the April edition of Sustainable Business Insights brings you recent developments in consumer trends, the UN Climate Change Conference, climate change science, the CPRS, as well as Dan Atkins’ insights into strategic risk management of climate change risks. So read on and gain valuable insights into what’s happening in sustainability and how this may affect you and your business.

The lead up to Copenhagen - nations still at loggerheads

 

 

The focus of the UN’s December Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is to agree on a successor for the Kyoto Protocol post 2012. However recent talks between delegates in Germany have left many questioning the level of progress being achieved in the lead up to the conference. Read full story
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The most recent figures from the Mobium Group suggest that despite the Global Financial Crisis many consumers continue to choose more sustainable and environmentally friendly products and services over those that aren’t considered in this category.  However consumer preparedness to pay a premium for such products has reduced in recent times. Read full story
Navigating risk and opportunity in climate change

Climate change has emerged as a key risk for many organisations and is rapidly becoming a priority focus of business, government and community. Effective climate change risk management not only requires organisations to consider climate change as a new risk, but to identify the interdependencies and interrelationships it causes between existing risks as well, writes Daniel Atkins.. Read full story
Climate change, worse than we thought Image
 

Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere at a rate much more rapid than previously predicted a top climate scientist and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned. Chris Field a coordinating lead author of the IPCC Fourth assessment report says “we now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected.” . Read full story
The Floor and the flaw in the CPRS

 

 

Under the Federal Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) it will be impossible for local councils, small businesses, households, individuals or even state governments to play their part in reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions post 2010. Read full story
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With the scope and design of the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) really only applying to approximately 1000 large polluting Australian businesses, it appears that the Victorian Government might be re thinking its approach to climate change mitigation and adaption. Read full story

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Events

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Melbourne Sustainability Drinks
Wednesday May 6th.
Full event details

Victorian Regional Innovation Conference
Wednesday April 22nd
Full event details

Managing your land sustainably
Sunday April 26th
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