Michael Nicholls

📉 5.8 million tonnes of net emissions reduced. That is the equivalent of taking over 2 million cars off the road.

Presenting AI-generated false or inaccurate information to the court is unacceptable. Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has issued a formal practice note from the Federal Court of Australia.

⚠️ The flexibility to estimate your way through Scope 3 reporting is coming to a hard stop. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol has just proposed its first major structural overhaul since 2011. The defining change is a strict 95% minimum boundary for Scope 3 emissions.

🧬 We have officially crossed the line from academic debate to active human biomonitoring for microplastics. The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences has released an evidence brief grouping micro- and nanoplastics alongside PFAS as priority contaminants.

🏗️ Catching illegal dumpers used to be about issuing fines after the damage was done. Now, the focus is shifting to physical remediation and surveillance technology.

🦅 Preparing for a viral pandemic usually means biosecurity lockdowns. For Australia’s native species, it means aggressively eradicating feral pigs and invasive weeds.

💬 “It’s fantastic to add new ACCU methods to the scheme at the same time as sectors take up the huge potential that exists in remaking older methods to incorporate the latest scientific developments.”

Those are the words of Josh Wilson, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, commenting o

PFAS management in NSW just underwent a major shift with the launch of a new statewide ambient monitoring programme. The NSW EPA is now collecting water, sediment, and biota samples across more than 200 sites within 17 catchment areas.

🔋 30 petajoules of gas demand has been offset across Australia’s main electricity grid — and the pace is accelerating. A new Climate Council report published yesterday confirms that grid-scale battery storage is actively decoupling our energy market from fossil fuel price volatility.