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While most of my work involves helping businesses navigate climate risk reporting while reducing carbon emissions and operating costs, I also operate at the other end of the sustainable business spectrum in the world of social impact. I am proud to announce that I have been elected as a non-executive director of THE Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT (SECNA), the member-led peak body for social enterprises in NSW and ACT. In my role at the local government program Bett

Economic briefing to local manufacturing group

APAC Circular Economy Hotspot Conference 2026 Sydney I attended the Asia Pacific Circular Economy Hotspot in Sydney last week with over 350 delegates from 30 nations across the Asia Pacific. The first insight to hit me was the scale of the challenge facing our oceans and Pacific neighbours — and the need to move from reactive waste management towards systemic change. Stopping plastic before it reaches the ocean We cannot solve the plastic pollution crisis by cleaning up wast

For years, mid-sized manufacturers have been like Goldilocks. Government grants either targeted massive innovation projects (too big) or small businesses (too small for your upgrades). Finally, the AMGC SME Decarbonisation Fund is just right. If you're running a powder coating oven, a steam boiler, or a metal furnace on gas - and you've been thinking about switching to electric - this co-contribution fund is right for you. The fund matches you dollar for dollar for projects c

Somewhere along the way, "sustainability" got filed in the wrong drawer. For years, manufacturing businesses simply did not think it was relevant to them. It was relegated to the fluffy end of corporate social responsibility: volunteering days, tree planting, a feel-good page in someone else's annual report. Not something that touched the factory floor, the order book or the balance sheet. That view is now not only out of date, it is actually dangerous. If you are a mid-sized

In an ironic twist, the angry Orange One is in fact, a gift to the planet. In his efforts to protect and promote the fossil fuel industry, he has unwittingly signed the death warrant for its eventual demise. How is this so? By activating the wrath of Iran, to close the Strait of Hormuz, Trump has put a stranglehold on the supply of a fair chunk of the world’s crude oil and gas. At CERAWeek 2026, the annual event where the global oil and gas industry gathered in Texas last

It's the only thing everyone is talking about right now! The cost of fuel is sky- rocketing with no end in sight. Hell, it might even run out! Our industrial age reliance on fossil fuels is absolute. The reality of fuel shortages is not only threatening businesses. It is threatening our ability to continue our normal way of life. We all knew that war in the Middle East was inevitable at some point. Hoping that it would somehow be confined to only that region, we didn't