Penguin Perspectives Blog

Last February, I spent three days in remote Northern Australia on the Cape York Peninsula where I visited the community of Pormpuraaw to meet with Traditional Owners and Pormpuraaw Land and Sea Rangers and learn how a strategic savanna fire management project operates.

If you are sitting reading this at your desk, this piece won't quite describe your average day at work. For the scouts and park rangers working in Kariba, however, a typical day is spent in the field – as you will see, they never know what to expect.

Sendle purchases carbon credits from South Pole to guarantee carbon neutral parcel delivery. Learn more about one of the projects they support through our EcoAustralia™ carbon credit solution—the Myamyn Lowland Forest Conservation project in Victoria—and how it helps safeguard habitat for a very special marsupial.

Climate change is affecting millions of women around the world, right now. But women are resilient. Read how 3 inspirational women are finding solutions!

Forests help stabilise the climate: they regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle, support livelihoods, and can help drive sustainable growth.

Conservation farming plays a major role when it comes to the eradication of poverty; food security; empowering women; and helping communities adapt to global warming. The Kariba project shows that a single incentive can be incredibly effective, and that it is still very much possible to achieve the deep rooted change that is necessary for a better future.

Penetrar en los espesos y recónditos bosques de Colombia puede ser una tarea tan desafiante como la de reconstruir la paz hoy en un país que ha quedado diezmado por la guerra de tantas décadas. Pero no es imposible.

"Driving through Victoria’s iconic Otway Ranges, I thought: these are truly wild places; places to be respected. Places that, through the support of the carbon market, will be protected as conservation sites in perpetuity." – South Pole Australia's Jay van Rijn reflects on his recent site visit for the EcoAustralia™ program, and goes into depth on one of the innovative ways the carbon market is helping preserve native forests, protect iconic Australian wildlife and drive down emissions in southwestern Victoria.

La minería y la ganadería, dos actividades productivas de gran tradición en el Nordeste y el Bajo Cauca colombiano, son continuamente objeto de tensión debido a que se les reconoce su aporte para las economías locales y al mismo tiempo su función como empobrecedoras del capital natural.

I know that all of our experts at South Pole work very hard, every day, to bring our products to our clients to help them attain their sustainability goals. And sometimes, the business feels like what it is - a business - focused on earning money to keep the business running. But it’s actually much more: our business has a purpose - and generates strong positive impacts. After my visit to our Kariba REDD+ project site in Northern Zimbabwe I wanted to share my message and thank everyone from our partners and clients to our supporters who are helping to make these projects happen.