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10 ways to work greener
Want to make some concrete changes to save the planet? Acuity spoke to leading sustainability consultants to identify 10 practical ways businesses can reduce their expenditure, cut carbon and engage...
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Carbon emissions – to cut or to offset?
As companies strive to cut their climate impacts, they will need to decide whether net-zero carbon emissions is an adequate goal...
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Who’s paying? The cost of rebuilding on floodplains
Recent flooding events have raised questions on how governments and communities can manage the risk of living on floodplains, and when the decision needs to be made to abandon certain areas...
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Five things: Circular economy
A circular economy is a model of production and consumption designed to have the least impact on the environment...
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Accountants have a role to play in the nature crisis
Accountants have a translational role to play, to help organisations report on nature impacts and become nature positive...
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Sustainability and climate standards in the spotlight
More than 6,500 delegates attended the recent World Congress of Accountants, with many more thousands joining in online. In the spotlight were the draft sustainability and climate standards and the...
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Five things: Changing the weather
China is a world champion in climate control, but shots of silver iodide aren’t the only thing that affects the weather...
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Climate risk is back on the agenda
The 2022 CA ANZ Climate Survey shows renewed interest in climate risk among members as the world moves on from the pandemic...
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How CAs can take the lead on sustainability
The new CA Program produces graduates who are trustworthy, job ready, grounded in ethics and digitally skilled...
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The issue: Carbon border adjustment mechanism
A CBAM puts a price on the carbon footprint of imports. The aim is to equalise prices between imports and goods produced under a domestic carbon pricing regime...
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Five things you didn’t know about electric vehicles
With electric vehicles back in the news as an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, are we any closer to seeing EVs in every driveway? Here are five things you may not know about this growing...
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A farmer’s friend in NZ’s greenhouse gas countdown
BDO’s Charles Rau FCA says CAs are well placed to help NZ’s farmers calculate greenhouse emissions by the 2022 deadline...
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From macro to micro: social trends and business
How are broad social trends translating into how we do business? Acuity talks to CAs on the front line of change...
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Insurance strategies in an age of climate change
Commercial insurance premiums are on the march worldwide, but particularly in the Pacific region. Climate risk is part of the reason. How should corporations be responding?...