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10 reasons why funding reef destruction is bad for business
Amazing news for the Reef! One of the world’s top investment banks Citi – has joined Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays by stating they will not fund Reef destruction by financing the new Abbot Point coal terminal. If foreign banks aren’t willing to finance the development of coal ports in the…
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Australia made history, but for all the wrong reasons
A few short years ago, putting a price on carbon was a sensible first step on the journey to tackle the main cause of climate change – our carbon emissions from increasing use of fossil fuels. Image via @geeksrulz on Twitter Since that sensible first step, the world and Australia have continued to warm. On…
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6 myths this Indonesian logger didn’t want busted
Recent large-scale clearance of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) pulpwood concession on Pulau Pedang, Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province. PT RAPP is a subsidiary of APRIL, the pulp & paper division of the RGE Group. On 28 January 2014, APRIL announced that it intends to continue to use rainforest…
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Losing Nemo
Written by Nicole Ghio, Sierra Club International Climate Program After his stop in Los Angeles, everyone’s favorite cartoon clownfish, Nemo, continued his tour of the U.S., stepping out in sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C. to ask Americans to help him save his home, the Great Barrier Reef. What’s Nemo doing touring the U.S.? Is…
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Super-trawlers are feeding on EU fishing subsidies.
In banning supertrawlers from our waters for two years, the Australian Government has sent a strong message to the bloated and subsidised European fishing industry. This Op-Ed first appeared in The Australian 24 Sept 2012 Fishing in Europe is governed by the EU’s law on fishing, known as the Common Fisheries Policy. It has been…
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Stop the Margiris and spare the oceans
We Australians love a local link. When big news happens around the world, instinctively the first thing we check is whether an Aussie was involved. But, this time around, the story is coming to us in the form of the imminent arrival of the 142 metre long Margiris super trawler. The Margiris is the second…
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Macken Sense: And the winner is….
Last week produced two powerful stories that define the perimeters surrounding the increasingly contested space in Australia’s economic and energy future. Just as history is written by the victors, there’s little doubt the future is in part created by the stories that prevail today – but which one will win the day? The first…
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The future we want? Between hope and despair on the road to the Rio Earth Summit
Blogpost by Daniel Mittler – January 17, 2012 – I have been up at night a lot over the last ten days thinking about the future. You do not have to feel bad for me as the reason was a joyful one: I was carrying around my new born daughter. As I stared at her…