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The structure of stakeholder networks impacts the ability for environmental governance to fulfil core functions: share information; agree on problem framing and actions; and resolve conflict. Managing pest and disease incursions presents particular challenges. Rapid coordination of action is needed in times of crisis, but any hope of success during crisis requires a foundation of

Shift led to local extinctions and could have important implications for species today Genetic diversity could shrink as animals venture into new territories because of global heating leaving them vulnerable to extinction, scientists have warned after tracking the impact of climate change on the American mastodon. Huge, hairy and with a pair of fearsome tusks,

Analysis shows state and federal governments not exercising their powers to require companies to increase offsets Only 1.2% of the greenhouse gas emissions released by Australia’s top 65 emitting companies had to be offset under federal and state laws last financial year, an analysis has found. The analysis by Footprint, a sustainability news site, examined

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Sien Kok, Alexander Bisaro, Mark de Bel, Jochen Hinkel, Laurens M. Bouwer

Peak employer body warns Australia faces ‘costly increase in climate-related impacts and risks’ even in best-case scenario The Morrison government should spend $3.3bn over 10 years on renewable energy and $500m over two years on capital grants to improve energy efficiency and management, according to the Australian Industry Group. The peak employer body made the

The basin has faced challenges throughout history but the system designed to protect it does not factor in a changing climate This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020 One hundred and fifty years ago Ludwig Becker, a member of the Burke and Wills expedition, did