Student gets big wheels turning
Features Nick Palousis. 22-08-2007
A SOFTWARE program that will impel car manufacturers to think about sustainability at every step of the production process has been awarded in the Australian Museum's Eureka Prizes for science.
Climate change and Insurance in Australia's Coastal Zones - Drivers and Responses
By Bruce Thomas. Summer 2007
From the earliest consideration of the possibility of global climate change, the insurance industry has been an early mover...
Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change
By Dan Atkins and Bruce Thomas 2007
Direct physical impacts from changing weather patterns, potential disruptions to supply chains and a reduced demand for “carbon intensive” products is significantly altering the way companies do business.
To report or not to report
Features Dan Atkins. April/May 2006
According to a Commonwealth government report, produced by financial services firm KPMG, the proportion of Australian companies engaged in sustainability reporting rose from 14% in 2002 to 23% last year, but this figure is still far below that for companies in Japan, Britain, the United States, the European Union and Canada.
This article has been republished with permission from Westwick-Farrow Publishing and was first published in
Waste Streams Apr/May 2006 magazine
Green fingers
By David Hassel | Features Dan Atkins. Winter 2003
Building cars and saving the planet may seem mutually exclusive aims, but David Hassel discovers Toyota Australia is making the environment a core element of its future
This article was published in Driver's World3
Putting real value on the triple bottom line
By Adrian Bowden | Features Dan Atkins. 03-09-2001
Successful management of business risk has considerable potential to improve the so-called triple bottom line - the social, environmental and financial accountability of a business
This article has been reproduced with permission from
The Age
Companies must be green from go to whoa
by Dan Atkins. 27-08-2001
During the 1990s, companies began to incorporate environmental management techniques into their management practices because it represented an opportunity to identify cost savings and minimise potential liabilities.
This article has been reproduced with permission from
The Age
Eco-Efficiency and Business Practices
By Preben J Sorensen and Dan Atkins. 2000
The potential for improvement of performance and stakeholder dialogue offered by the concept of eco-efficiency is attracting the attention of leading companies including the investment community
This article has been reproduced from The Sustainable Development Agenda 2000
Financial analysts rank sustainable companies
Features Dan Akins. 2000
Companies with a good environmental policy will be long-term profitable, says Tauni Sanchez of Dow Jones Sustainability group Index in Switzerland.
Source: documentation from Eco-efficiency 2000 conference, Sweden
Financial Institutions and the Environment
by Dan Atkins. March 1998
A new group of stakeholders is beginning to review the environmental performance of companies
and their activities in this area will further re-inforce management’s need to integrate environmental
considerations within their organisation’s operations.
Corporate Environmental Reporting - A Nordic Experience
by Dan Atkins. June 1998
Corporate Environmental Reporting (CER) has been emerging in Europe since the beginning of the 1990's and together with the Nth American Region has been the driving force behind improving the quality of environmental reports produced.
Environmental Reporting: Perspectives from Denmark
by Dan Atkins. December 1998
I have witnessed significant activity throughout Europeas businesses are increasingly recognizing and establishing their role in managing environmental and social issues. I thought it might be of benefit to offer an insight to some of the initiatives that I have been following during my time here.
