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Biodiversity
The Problem Of Semantics When Creating Protected Areas
Alistair Burls | istockphoto.com Undoubtedly the Federal Labor government needed a headline grabber at the start of the Nature Positive Summit, after what has been a dismal first term for the for the environment. So, it comes as no surprise that the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has declared “the Heard and McDonald Island Marine Park would quadruple in size”. The minister continued “the decision meant Australia would protect 52% of its ocean territory, far more…
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New Thinking
Broken Men With Power
Motortion | istockphoto.com Many years ago I first heard the phrase, “there is nothing more dangerous than a broken man…
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Regulation
Is Moral Capitalism An Oxymoron?
The advisor demonstrates the shareholders rights book. A quote by Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and…
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New Thinking
Can Australia Aspire To Be Average, OECD Tax-to-GDP Ratio Average?
Since moving to Australia from Europe, in the mid-1990s, I have always been baffled by the country’s mindset of financial…
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Nature Positive And The Dangers Of Investing In Opaque Systems
petmal | istockphoto.com To anyone trying to understand the accelerating juggernaut of ‘Nature Positive’, and if it can genuinely help…
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Consumption
Quietly Quitting Consuming
In reality, the only hope we have to mitigate the risks associated with environmental collapse is degrowth. This cannot be…
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Biodiversity
Distraction Breeds Inaction – We Get What We Value
gorodenkoff | istockphoto.com The decision by two of the world’s biggest asset managers to quit an investor group set up…
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New Thinking
The Irrelevance Of Davos
Did Davos Meeting Peak In 1973? coolimagesco | istockphoto.com In 1971, a non-government organisation, called the European Management Forum brought…
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Biodiversity
Hubris And Conforming: The Dangerous Duo Killing The Natural World
Crimes can’t be solved when key suspects are taken out of the frame. This is driven home when true crime…
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Biodiversity
It’s Official: 9 Out Of 10 Primates Think Private Finance For Nature Is Bollocks
Recent years have brought about a lot of talk about private investment in nature and many new terms have been…
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Regulation
Another Voluntary Scheme? Sign Me Up!
Kirill Ikonnikov | istockphoto.com The use of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and certification schemes has been a staple of the phantom…
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Consumption
Extinction: The Vulgarity of Desire
As we head to Black Friday, routinely the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States, and in…
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Elite Infighting Is Driving Collapse
ThinhAit | istockphoto.com As with environmental collapse, we can’t say there is no understanding of what is driving political turbulence and…
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