Welcome to A&NZSustain

Welcome to the beta public website of A&NZSustain, the Australia and New Zealand Sustainability Circle.

Launched in August 2009, A&NZSustain contributes to a sustainable Trans-Tasman future by encouraging sustainable business practices.

We achieve this by bringing together and sharing the wealth of corporate sustainability information that exists and by providing a networking and connecting service for sustainability professionals.

A&NZSustain is an independent non-partisan organisation. A&NZSustain membership is open to commercial organisations, government departments, NGO and peak bodies working or interested in sustainability.

 

About A&NZSustain

 

A&NZSustain was formed in 2009 recognising the need to have a non-partisan network that helps members to deliver sustainability to their organisations while finding new opportunities for sustainable business.

A&NZSustain provides a:

  • Forum for ideas and knowledge sharing
  • Meeting place for business, government and community
  • Marketplace of sustainable products and services.

The Australian network has a presence in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth as well as an extensive online environment to foster regional and international links.

A&NZSustain is the sister organisation of the Trans -Tasman Business Circle – an executive forum for business and government in both Australia and New Zealand which was established in 1993.

 

 
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Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.

Joint press conference by the Secretary-General with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, about the launch of a new high-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. see http://www.un.org/webcast/#
 
c2c Institute Launched

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UNFCCC: -55 countries representing 78% of CO2e report

UNFCCC receives list of government climate pledges

(Bonn, 01 February 2010) Following the conclusion of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has received submissions of national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries. These countries together account for 78 per cent of global emissions from energy use.

This represents an important invigoration of the UN climate change talks under the two tracks of Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol,” said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC.

The commitment to confront climate change at the highest level is beyond doubt. These pledges have been formally communicated to the UNFCCC. Greater ambition is required to meet the scale of the challenge. But I see these pledges as clear signals of willingness to move negotiations towards a successful conclusion, he said.

Industrialised countries listed their mid-term targets to cut emissions:

Developing countries communicated information on their nationally appropriate mitigation actions:

The next round of formal negotiations is scheduled to be in Bonn, Germany, at the end of May 2010. Several countries have indicated their wish to see a quick return to the negotiations with more meetings than the scheduled sessions. We are seeking further guidance from governments, de Boer added.

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