Welcome to this fortnight’s curated selection of articles shedding light on AI, sustainability, and business trends worth exploring! Quick learning bites to start your day 🌟 Green Bond Surge: Global green bond issuance hit $620B in 2024, projected to jump 15% to ~$713B in 2025.

The Reference System approach is often seen as the poor cousin in Risk Analysis, but once you understand it, you will appreciate that it is actually a very common approach, however it is also the easiest one to get wrong if used in appropriately.

Welcome to Edition #4 of Sunburnt Country. As we hit the midway point of the UN’s ‘Decade of Action’ for the Sustainable Development Goals, this newsletter curates key updates—from shifting global priorities to regulatory changes and corporate innovations.

This week’s article had a different focus but I wanted to change tack based on some news from last month, the initiation of the Coalition for Environmentally Sustainable Artificial Intelligence. This groundbreaking initiative, which kicked off less than a month ago on February 11, 2025, in Paris, marks a pivotal moment in the intersection of technology and environmental stewardship.

The first place to start is with your Industry and/or State Regulator. Many Regulators provide details of Standards or other similar documentation such as Codes of Practice. It is a straightforward task to say that these have already been accepted in the same regulatory environment and therefore they represent Relevant Good Practice and should be complied with as Reasonably Practicable.

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This edition of Sunburnt Country explores the latest trends in sustainability, focusing on AI's environmental impact, ESG reporting advancements, and climate change policy challenges.