Big brands including Stella McCartney, Adidas, Lululemon and Hermes have partnered with biotechnology startups Bolt Threads and MycoWorks to develop products made of a new, green alternative to leather and the plastic-based pleather.https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mycelium-fungi-green-materials-1.5954664

How is Australia's Green Recovery going? COVID-19  has led to a global crisis threatening the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable by increasing poverty, exacerbating inequalities, and damaging long-term economic growth prospects. The report, 'Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways for Inclusive Green Recovery Spending', provides an analysis of over 3500 fiscal policies announced by leading economies in 2020 and calls for governments to invest more sustainably and tackle inequalities in the wake of the devastation wrought by the pandemic. Australia is currently running LAST on the Green recovery spending scale.https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/35282/AWBBB_ES.pdf

"Today’s targets are nowhere near enough, we must speed up change and HALVE global emissions in the next decade" Alok Sharma is president designate of Cop26 "In Nepal last month, I met communities displaced by melting glaciers. In Ethiopia, I saw how floods, droughts and locusts have decimated crops. Around the world, oceans are warming, and storms, floods and wildfires are intensifying, while here at home (in the UK), our coastal towns face serious long-term threats from rising seas. Unless we act now, we will be out of time to hold back the worst impactshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/climate-crisis-cop26-president-global-targets

To mark St. Patrick’s Day and the positive impact that Irish businesses are delivering across the world, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Government’s trade and innovation agency, recently named the world's most active Venture Capital firm, today launched a new green innovation focused international campaign ‘Ready for a Green Future’. The campaign focuses on the climate agenda, and as the world emerges from Covid-19 there is a need to build back better, prioritising sustainability and tackling the many environmental challenges that we face to deliver a green recovery.Read more here: https://bit.ly/3bRd07l

Queensland is following the footsteps of South Australia in becoming a greener state. Under new legislation, single use plastics such as straws and cutlery, as well as polystyrene foam food containers and cups will be banned from the 1st of September 2021. The legislation has been endorsed by the Australian Marine Conservation Society, and will be critical in protecting the iconic Australian wildlife. This is an excellent push for the remaining Australian states to also take the positive action to ban plastics which are designed to be used once, and which lastingly destroy the environment.

If we are to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees, CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere.The Ocean Nourishment Corporation is working to enhance the natural process of photosynthesis by phytoplankton whereby they draw CO2 from the atmosphere. As more CO2 is drawn down, more carbon will be stored at the bottom of the ocean when the phytoplankton die. A carbon credit can be created for each additional tonne of CO2 stored.If 2.4 billion tonnes can be stored, then, at $50 per tonne,  this technique can create a market in excess of $100 billion.