Food for thought…

• Climate Change: what’s the emergency?
• Time to reflect: 5 lessons from 2020 for sustainability
• Prosperity at “devastating” cost to nature
• Agriculture bosses say lowering carbon emissions is 'ethically right', but Nationals call for farm exemptions
• The Evolution of Private Sector Action in Sustainable Development

Climate Change: what’s the emergency? - In conversation with Nigel Topping, the UK government’s appointed High Level Climate Change Champion.  Read the full article

Time to reflect: 5 lessons from 2020 for sustainability - Now we are into 2021, it’s a great time to pause and reflect on 2020.  In looking back, we can learn from our successes and mistakes, gain new perspective, and see where we need to go next.  Reflection cultivates self-awareness, efficacy, innovation and resilience.  And it sets us up to make meaningful progress on our goals in the year ahead.  Read the full article from Quantis

Prosperity at “devastating” cost to nature - a landmark review has called for transformational change in our economic approach to nature.  The review by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, of the University of Cambridge, says prosperity has come at a "devastating" cost to the natural world.  The report proposes recognising nature as an asset and reconsidering our measures of economic prosperity.  Read the full article from BBC News

Agriculture bosses say lowering carbon emissions is 'ethically right', but Nationals call for farm exemptions - Australian agriculture industry bosses have vowed to continue efforts to lower carbon emissions from farming, despite an opposing push by the federal Nationals to have agriculture excluded from any net zero emissions target.  An interesting debate in ABC News - read the full article

The Evolution of Private Sector Action in Sustainable Development (Brief #12) - - Still Only One Earth: Lessons from 50 years of UN sustainable development policy.  Read the full article from the IISD