The Australia Institute
released 27 August 2019
The Electricity Update presents data on electricity demand, electricity
supply, and electricity generation emissions in the National Electricity Market (NEM), plus electricity demand in the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
The Australia Institute
released 26 August 2019
New research from The Australia Institute has shown that more than 27,000 jobs in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania would be put at risk if drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight is allowed to go ahead and a catastrophic spill occurs.
United Nations Environment Programme
released 16 August 2019
The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings of an investigation into the effectiveness of policy interventions aimed at addressing the illegal and unsustainable trade in wildlife and wildlife products. Such interventions include (but are not limited to): legislative and enforcement measures; measures to influence consumer behaviour; trade policy responses; and engagement of local communities.
The World Bank Group
released 20 August 2019
The report calls for a paradigm shift that emphasizes safer, and often more cost-effective remedies that prevent pollution by combining smarter policies with newer technologies. A key message of Quality Unknown is that such solutions exist and change is possible.Using new data, this report demonstrates the importance of water quality across a range of sectors and how its impacts cut across nearly all of the SDGs.
NSW Government
released 14 August 2019
These guidelines expand on the monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) framework by providing SoS project coordinators with a step by step approach to using conceptual models for selecting relevant indicators and estimating a species’ expected response to management for these indicators.
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC)
released 20 August 2019
The report provides the collective views of Australian and New Zealand investors with funds representing over AU$1.3tn in assets under management surveyed over June-July 2019. These investors include superannuation funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds.
Greenpeace
released 19 August 2019
This briefing analyses NASA data on the largest point sources of SO2, one of the key pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide. To accompany the briefing there is an online interactive map of the world’s worst sources of SO2 pollution, which allows further exploration of emission hotspots across different regions.