By Lesley McCarthy Sixty-six people attended the ESRAG Action Summit on May 25 at the Melbourne Town Hall! Our first guest speaker, Prof David Karoly, Australian world leader in climate dynamics and climate change science, spoke on climate change and how Rotarians can...
by Dr. Pat Armstrong, ESRAG Chair, and Dr. Yasar Atacik, ESRAG Chair-Elect Pakistan’s catastrophic 2022 floods, Europe’s deadly wildfires, and the titanic cyclones slamming Africa are just three of the rising global toll of disasters which justify the urgency of the...
By Joey O’Brien Is the carbon market real? Take a look at this map identifying current actors in the voluntary carbon market. If you have not been inundated with information about carbon credits or offsets, you might have found the perfect rock to hide under....
By Pat Armstrong, ESRAG Chair If you are attending the Rotary International Convention (RICON) 2023 in Melbourne, Australia, 27-31 May, don’t miss the many environmental activities taking place in the week prior to the Convention and during the convention itself. You...
A love letter from ESRAG’s Plant-Rich Diet Task Force We call her Mother Earth and she is our life support system. But our eating habits are stressing her to the point of collapse. This Valentine’s Day let’s show her a little love by leaving unsustainable animal...
Here’s the good news: forests managed by Indigenous people in the Amazon region served as life-saving carbon sinks from 2001-21, removing the equivalent of the UK’s annual fossil fuel emissions each year, according to a new study by the World Resources Institute....
