Blogs
Sustainability is one of the three macrotrends impacting on business today
Sustainability is not only one of the three macrotrends impacting on business today. Evalue8 Sustainability exhibited at Xerocon on 7 and 8 September. Our stall proved very popular. One of the reasons for this is that sustainability is not only one of the three...
IPCC Report on Mitigation of Climate Change, released 4 April 2022
What were the key messages of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Mitigation of Climate Change? The headline message is a sobering one; we are running out of time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we want to keep global warming to 1.5...
What did the AR6 Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tell us that we didn’t already know?
The AR6 Synthesis Report told us that the climate change impacts observed from the warming that has already occurred (1.1 degrees Celsius for the world and 1.4 degrees for Australia) are at the higher end of the range expected from modelling to date. Regional changes...
Lessons from the past – What can we learn from the environmental action campaign against chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that could help us now against climate change?
The environmental action campaign against CFCs began in earnest in 1985. It had largely been won by 2000. One of the questions I’ve been asked is “How did they win that battle so quickly? Are there lessons for those of us fighting against climate change now?” The CFC...
International Sustainability Standards Board Announced at Glasgow
Carbon accounting is set to become as standardised as financial accounting. This is a ground-breaking milestone, in response to the growing and urgent demand for streamlining and formalising of corporate sustainability disclosures. For those of you already measuring...
What is expected from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow?
What is expected from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow? Deeper greenhouse gas emissions cuts The world as a whole needs to halve its net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 if it is to avoid the worst impacts...
Why is the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow so important?
Why is the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow so important? To solve climate change, we need better governance. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), examining research from across the globe, found in August 2021 evidence of...
5 tips to reduce the energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions of your business
You can reduce your energy bills and your carbon footprint simultaneously, saving money and helping the environment. Evalue8 Sustainability’s software calculates greenhouse gas emissions and provides suggestions on how to reduce them that are likely to be cost...
Why we should all care about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report
The United Nations’ IPCC report brings together findings on climate change from all over the world and makes grim reading. “Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes...
What are Australian Governments doing in relation to climate change?
Federal Government There have been many articles published on the Federal Government’s 2021-22 Budget already, noting it is more focussed on creating jobs from the commercialisation of low emissions technologies and supporting the insurance market than on reducing...
Covid-19 slows investment in energy efficiency measures
There have been many stories in the press recently about the short-term beneficial impact of reduced travel in 2020, due to responses to covid-19, on air pollution and carbon emissions. Unfortunately, the International Energy Agency’s Energy Efficiency 2020 Report...
Why measure the greenhouse gas emissions of your business?
Why measure the greenhouse gas emissions of your business? You can’t manage what you don’t measure. If you don’t know how the activities of your business contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, you don’t know which ones to focus on, or which initiatives to...