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New Thinking
Slowing The Extinction Crisis For Less Than The Price Of A Second Hand Car
istockphoto.com In the last week a Mercedes-Benz W196 from 1954, once driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss sold at auction for €51.15million (US$52.5million). When you compare this to the less than US$30million to modernise the CITES wildlife trade regulator’s permit system globally, to help save more than 40,000 endangered species from overexploitation, it is a vulgar and sad indictment of how people in high-income countries perceive status. Right now, the new owner of…
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And The Show Must Go On
istockphoto.com What is the purpose of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland? Author Anand Giridharadas called…
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The Leadership – Empathy Gap
istockphoto.com As billionaires are being invited by Trump to fill key roles, the result will be wealthiest administration in US…
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Are We At An Ideological Breaking Point? Will We Breakthrough or Breakdown?
istockphoto.com The world stands at a critical juncture—facing systemic challenges that threaten the very foundations of our societies, economies, and…
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Biodiversity
Show Me The Money
istockphoto.com The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to the stalemate on money at CoP 16. A 2020 publication,…
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Biodiversity
The Legal Trade In Wild Species: Deadly By Design
Carolyn Smith | istockphoto.com The contradictions in Colombia hosting the CDB COP16 are stark. This isn’t only about the thousands…
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Biodiversity
Indigenous Groups Are Sceptical Of CBD CoP16. Good, They Should Be.
istockphoto.com Highlighting what to monitor during CoP 16, one article asks, “Will Indigenous groups play a role in decisions?” going…
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Regulation
MMT, Unproductive Money And Unnecessary Consumption
Wara1982 | istockphoto.com As the crises of global warming and biodiversity edge ever closer to collapse, I find myself thinking,…
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Biodiversity
The Problem Of Semantics When Creating Protected Areas
Alistair Burls | istockphoto.com Undoubtedly the Federal Labor government needed a headline grabber at the start of the Nature Positive…
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Broken Men With Power
Motortion | istockphoto.com Many years ago I first heard the phrase, “there is nothing more dangerous than a broken man…
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Regulation
Is Moral Capitalism An Oxymoron?
The advisor demonstrates the shareholders rights book. A quote by Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and…
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Can Australia Aspire To Be Average, OECD Tax-to-GDP Ratio Average?
Since moving to Australia from Europe, in the mid-1990s, I have always been baffled by the country’s mindset of financial…
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Nature Positive And The Dangers Of Investing In Opaque Systems
petmal | istockphoto.com To anyone trying to understand the accelerating juggernaut of ‘Nature Positive’, and if it can genuinely help…
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