Ben Milligan

📺 Watch the #GreenShippingChallenge event from #COP28 with contributions and commitments on decarbonising shipping from Ocean Panel members including: 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇺🇸 USA, 🇫🇯 Fiji, 🇳🇦 Namibia and 🇫🇷 France. youtube.com/watch?v=GfBMt8…

Seriously SMH? Maybe the headline could acknowledge the one-in-three of potential threats (50 coal and gas projects) or the one-in-four (37 property developments)🤷‍♂️smh.com.au/politics/feder…

I've been quiet on socials lately—coming out of hiding to share this: if you enjoy tackling complex challenges with new tools & technologies in small supportive teams, have big ambitions, and thrive beyond your comfort zone, these roles are a perfect fit 🙌external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/en/job/514713/…

@jgacutan1 @DrGraemeClark @DrEmmaLJohnston Congratulations on the end of the beginning 🙂

EVENT: "Opportunities for Transforming Coastal and Marine Tourism". Register now to explore the sustainable future of tourism with experts and leading voices from the industry. Wednesday, 18 January, at 6:00 am GMT. Sign up here 🌊👇 bit.ly/3k9Qptg

Africa needs country-specific narratives for a clean energy future | UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/susta…

Yesterday at #COP15, @WHOSTP @CommerceGov signed a joint statement with Australia @DCCEEW advancing international collaboration to put nature on our national balance sheets – helping us fight #climatechange and nature loss & advance economic prosperity🌿 whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

Is your region part of the race to restoration? 10 winning initiatives from 23 countries aim to restore more than 60 million hectares by 2030. Meet the #GenerationRestoration flagships boosting nature and livelihoods around the world. unep.org/interactive/fl…

Australia and the United States have signed an agreement to measure the economic value of nature, as they look to make environmental damage a top consideration for businesses and governments smh.com.au/environment/su…

A large no of countries have positive GDP but negative growth in inclusive wealth, meaning GDP is not the whole story of the progress!

💡New paper! Providing practical guidelines to start implementing national, regional or local #oceanaccounts, the insights are complimented by lessons learned from #WIO #oceanaccounts pilots! ✏️led by @TaiGoLou & the Africa Community of Practice! 🔗bit.ly/3BiRS62

Firdaus Agung @kkpgoid showcasing how #OceanAccounts provide the underpinning information infrastructure for all of #Indonesia's #ocean management tools at our Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean dialogue today! @UNESCAP

Australia's Ocean Accounts: mangroves and saltmarsh combined sequester 10.1 million tonnes of CO2e annually and provide coastal protection services for 280 thousand people. Kelp to come to part two. Great work from @ABSStats to #MakeNatureCount abs.gov.au/statistics/env…

Hot off the press: "Census of Environment: Protected and conserved ocean and coastal ecosystems”. This release adds conservation information to the ocean ecosystem account published by StatCan last June. #OceanAccounts #MakeNatureCount #GOAP www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

A couple of scenes from the high altitudinal rainforests of Lost World in our new Mount Gibson reserve. Lost World is only accessible by helicopter and is one of few areas unexplored by Europeans remaining in Australia.

I'm getting a lot of reviews about how there is too much breastfeeding and it's not realistic in a book about a woman left alone with a 6-week-old baby, and it's just WILD to me how we as a society still don't realize how time-consuming nursing actually is.

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers

Excited for the Australian accounting community to come together for this important discussion. See you virtually on 4 November 👏

Join @DCCEEW and @UNSW on a virtual national dialogue discussing how we can make 'Nature's Wealth Count'. The Dialogue is supported by @UNSWSDRHUB and Law & Justice Scientia Fellow @BenM_Milligan. Register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/making-natur…

Brilliant to hear Prof Findlay @cput about how #oceanaccounting can support #oceangovernance and #sustainabledevelopment at the #NCAforum2022 @StatsSA. We also heard about the exciting projects being developed in Africa, supported by @OceanAccounts.