Dr Anja Bless

The race for carbon in farmland: global mapping of the emerging voluntary market for soil carbon credits Carbon farming is increasingly promoted as a strategy to achieve net-zero climate targets. This paper examines voluntary carbon market programmes through a global inventory and discourse analysis t...

Really enjoyed this new work by Johansson and colleagues on the rise of 'carbon farming', and how soils are being 're-valued' as carbon sinks with questionable credibility by the private sector: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commodification and co-benefits: Neoliberalism and the growth of regenerative agriculture in Australia ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is attracting increasing attention as a farming approach which could rejuvenate agricultural landscapes and support farmer …

New article alert! 🚨

In this paper, we explore the drivers for regenerative agriculture's emergence and growth in Australia and how this has been influenced by a neoliberal policy context.

Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of heat stress on record

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 23, 2023 ~ This too

"Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called 'heartbreaking' and 'a profoundly distressing moment'."

The 2024 state of the climate report: a report by leading international scientists on recent trends in planetary vital signs.
(Ignore at your peril.)

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Excited to have our first member event for 2025 - guest speaker Christian Torres is speaking to us about the adoption of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico