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"Sustainability reporting"

"Your specification of locally made paper contributes significantly to Australia's social, economic and environmental future and wellbeing. For every tonne of Australian Paper that you specify, you can receive an independently assured statement of impact against triple bottom line metrics that are consistent with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Through our Tonne of Value Australian Paper can provide you with a Reportable and credible triple bottom line paper account. Your decision to choose Australian made paper helps take risk out of your supply chain and shows your key stakeholders that you are a responsible organisation. One that aligns values with responsible actions, which can be shared with all stakeholders."

"Our firefighters, emergency services and communities need to prepare for much greater bushfire risk from climate change. Victorian communities will be among the most affected. The Climate Council's latest report looks at what this means for the state. READ THE report"

"The Climate Commission has received questions from the community and the media seeking to understand the influence of climate change on the recent extreme summer weather. Download The Angry Summer. This report provides a summary of the extreme weather of the 2012/13 summer and the influence of climate change on such events."

"How do we achieve food security in the face of climate change? Answering this question means weaving together many strands of evidence about our complex food and climate systems to produce a clear image. In response to this challenge, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), with support from the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, convened the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, thirteen senior scientists working on agriculture, climate, nutrition, economics and natural resources in governmental, academic and civil society institutions around the world."

This report describes the outcomes from a CSIRO global foresight project. It presents six megatrends that will redefine how the world's people live.

As much as half of all the food produced in the world - equivalent to 2bn tonnes - ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday.

Australian politicians are displaying a discernible lack of courage in dealing with the threats of climate change, University of Melbourne researchers are warning. 

"Post Carbon Pathways: Towards a Just and Resilient Post Carbon Future Learning from leading international post-carbon economy researchers and policy makers This report draws on in-depth interviews with leading international researchers, policy makers and activists on actions needed to drive the rapid implementation of large scale post carbon economy transition strategies."

"The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Technical Guidelines (NGER Technical Guidelines) assist corporations to understand and apply the NGER (Measurement) Determination 2008."

These are the slide from the report launch

"Power generation from hydro, wind, solar and other renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from gas and be twice that from nuclear by 2016, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report (MTRMR). According to the MTRMR, despite a difficult economic context, renewable power is expected to increase by 40% in the next five years. Renewables are now the fastest-growing power generation sector and will make up almost a quarter of the global power mix by 2018, up from an estimated 20% in 2011. The share of non-hydro sources such as wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal in total power generation will double, reaching 8% by 2018, up from 4% in 2011 and just 2% in 2006."

"The technical solutions needed to reduce greenhouse gases at a speed capable of preventing catastrophic climate change are now well known. The recently launched University of Melbourne research report, Post Carbon Pathways shows the key features of the post-carbon economy road map are now widely understood. We need rapid replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energy; rapid reductions in energy consumption and improvements in energy efficiency; and the drawdown and sequestration of carbon into sustainable carbon sinks."

"In recent years, Europe has suffered a rising number of extreme weather events - from unprecedented heat waves and droughts to record-breaking floods, wind storms and freezes. These events do not respect borders and it is vital that Europe's policy makers come together to devise common strategies to help mitigate the physical, human and economic costs. This new EASAC report based on a comprehensive collection of scientific data from the last 20 years provides just such a rallying call."

"From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change. Coming in 2014."

"From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change. Coming in 2014."

"The latest edition of this authoritative annual report tells the story of the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Packed full of statistics, charts and illuminating narrative, it explores the issues affecting each type of investment, technology, region."

UN Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development

"The Living Planet Report is the leading, science-based analysis on the health of planet, published every 2 years. Next release: October 2010."

"The 2009 Green Light Report is a Victorian Government initiative detailing the environmental attitudes, behaviours and household features of Victorians."

"A new report from the World Bank, 'Turn Down the Heat' warns that already global warming of around 1.5°C above pre-industrial times is locked into the Earth's atmospheric system. Unless we act now to reduce emissions, warming of probably 4 degrees will occur within our century, and everyone will feel the impact, particularly the poor."