A 200-kilometre 'tree highway' is in the works as businesses steer Australia towards a greener future

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As businesses come under pressure to take action on climate change in an increasingly climate-conscious international market, many are now taking the lead with bold initiatives to slash their carbon footprint.

"At a big end of town level, there's the TCFD, which is the Taskforce on Climate -related Financial Disclosures and that reveals to the market how strategically they are planning to deal with their emissions exposure," he said.

"The sort of increased stridency of the Andrew Forrest messaging is being reflected in many boardrooms around the country and around the world," he said.At the other end of the spectrum, small businesses are also signing up in a less formal way to offset their emissions. Mokosh owner Marion O'Leary buys native trees to sequester carbon and offset her company's emissions."Since we started in 2019, we have bought 2,760 trees so we are pretty proud of that," she said.Ms O'Leary said she had become disheartened over what she perceives to be a lack of progress on climate change in Australia.

"Buying trees is a way to offset our emissions and also make our customers feel that by buying some of our product, they are also offsetting some of their own emissions too."In total, 180 businesses are currently certified under the Federal Government's scheme "Climate Active", with 260 certifications for products and services between them.

 

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Yes. Great incentive. 👍

It can be done! China has reforested large swaths of the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in the past 30 years. This initiative is to be applauded.

Offsetting is just greenwash that comes from the falsehope policies of the Duopoly. We need CarbonNegative policies to even begin to slow HumanCausedGlobalWarming. There's a seaweedsolution

The private sector leading the way ahead of the government, yet again

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