Speeches & articles.

Speeches from Accounting for Nature leadership.

27 July 2022

Keynote address to the EIANZ workshop on biodiversity offsets

Dr Ken Henry

About a decade ago, Australian policymakers could lay claim to operating the world’s best set of mechanisms for securing the abatement of domestic greenhouse gas emissions. That all came to an end when the Abbott Government repealed the emissions trading scheme (ETS).

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Melissa Brooks Melissa Brooks

Can a ‘nature repair market’ really save Australia’s environment? It’s not perfect, but it’s worth a shot.

Australia has embarked on an experiment to create a market for biodiversity. No, we’re not talking about buying and selling wildlife, although, sadly, there is a black market for that. This is about repairing and restoring landscapes, providing habitat for threatened species and getting business and philanthropy to help pay for it.

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Melissa Brooks Melissa Brooks

Force of nature.

It is time to think about nature as infrastructure, write Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) executive director Tony Goldner MAICD and Accounting for Nature director Dr Ken Henry AC.

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