In the first article in this series I summarised the reasons we should take environmental sustainability seriously in our governance, while in the second I provided a short outline of the state of climate governance in Australia. In this article I want to talk about the most widely used framework for doing this work – what is called Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). A quick disclaimer. Like all frameworks adopted from the for-profit sector, ESG can be an awkward

Below the radar there is a steady shift towards company directors and regulatory bodies taking climate change seriously and working on ways to both manage their risks and make the most of the opportunities presented by decarbonisation.

I’ve been slow to populate the governance section of this website. It’s not out of any sense that governance is unimportant. I’ve spent a lot the last twenty years helping organisations with things like strategic planning, policies and procedures and compliance. Ten years ago I even wrote a governance manual for smaller community housing organisations, although sadly it was never kept up-to-date and fell out of use. Nonetheless, when I read documents about governance I of

You might see transport and travel as peripheral to the business of a housing and homelessness agency. However, both tenants and staff have to get around somehow, and if they don't need to drive petrol cars to do so this can reduce your footprint significantly. EVs are part of the solution to this but they are expensive and have their own impacts, both in the carbon embedded in their manufacture and in the fossil fuels currently used to make the electricity that charges them