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Sustainability & Climate

CTM: 3 Solutions for Climate Change in Business Travel

Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has launched a global action programme designed to support environmental sustainability in business travel.

On the look out for actionable innovative, cost-effective business travel solutions in the Corporate Travel Management, we reached out to CTM team, Brisbane based firm, to find out about their CTM CLIMATE+ and SMART Data at the Business Travel Show,…

Sovereign Magazine
26/02/2020

Business

Learn To Move Mountains: How you can learn to move mountains too

Young people all over the world are taking action against climate change.

Nelson Mandela said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done!”, so how do you learn to move mountains? Bright ideas to take action in our communities and for the planet don’t just pop-up already formed. Innovation starts in the soupy…

Elaine France
25/10/2019

Sustainability & Climate

Learn to Move Mountains

Compassionate problem solvers experience flow in action through social innovation, resilience, hope and entrepreneurial skills Interview with Elaine France, Founder, Flow In Action “We are at climate tipping points that are calling on us to do things differently; to embrace…

Sustainability & Climate

NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane

Agriculture contributes 48% of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This is an important issue not just for New Zealand and all agricultural nations, but for world food supply.

Dr Marina Nani
09/05/2019

Sustainability & Climate

‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis

Michelle Lim, University of Adelaide We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history. Nearly a million species face extinction if we do not fundamentally change our relationship with the natural world, according to…

Dr Marina Nani
07/05/2019

Sustainability & Climate

Extinction Rebellion: disruption and arrests can bring social change

Extinction Rebellion is keeping climate change at the forefront of the public and politicians’ lips, making the seemingly abstract problem facing all of us feel real.

Dr Marina Nani
22/04/2019

Social Impact

How the power of persuasion goes way beyond mere advertising

Persuasion has become fundamental to shaping people’s view of what is attractive or unattractive, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable. In essence, it has changed human interaction itself to the extent that consumption – rather than class, region, geography or occupation – has now become the primary form of self-identity and self-expression.

Dr Marina Nani
20/04/2019

Sustainability & Climate

‘Climate Change – The Facts’: the BBC and David Attenborough should talk about solutions

We need to revise our economic system and its dependence on growth to prevent the unnecessary consumption of the world’s resources. As the youth climate strikes leader, the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, clearly puts it, we need “system change, not climate change”.

Dr Marina Nani
18/04/2019

Sustainability & Climate

Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a carbon-neutral economy in the next ten years, while reducing both poverty and inequality. Lauded by many as a radical and necessary step, president Trump responded in typical style:

Darie Nani
28/03/2019