MAKING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES WORK

摘要

Devastating floods, hotter summers than ever before in living memory, nationally and abroad, the news headlines lay bare the unprecedented impacts of climate change. There's no longer any doubt that much of the blame lies with the human and industrial activities of the last couple of centuries. We know unequivocally that burning fossil fuels produces heat-trapping gases. A major new international report last year found the highest ever-recorded levels of greenhouse gases. We are being urged to make collective, concerted, and conscious changes to how we live and work to be better stewards of our earth. And yet, with borders reopening, more people are back on planes. Like our motorways, our skies are again busy. Alternative energies and biofuels are being developed but do not yet offer a practical solution for low-emissions travel. That means a trans-Tasman flight to attend a three-hour work meeting in Melbourne no longer seems justifiable (nor does that weekend shopping spree in Sydney). Indeed, many organisations are heeding the expert advice and encouraging, or even mandating, employees to travel less (less often and less far) in the name of work.