Tag: Accounting

Australia's Shame

‘Environmental accounting’ could revolutionise nature conservation, but Australia has squandered its potential

Let’s say a new irrigation scheme is proposed and all the land it’ll take up needs to be cleared — trees felled, soil upturned, and habitats destroyed. Water will also have to be allocated. Would the economic gain of the scheme outweigh the damage to the environment? This is the kind of question so-called “land accounts” grapple with. Land accounts are a type of “environmental account”, which measures our interactions with the environment by recording them as transactions. They help us understand the environmental and economic outcomes of land use decisions.

Source: ‘Environmental accounting’ could revolutionise nature conservation, but Australia has squandered its potential

carbon

BHP carbon accounting good for executive bonuses, not for climate – Michael West

BHP carbon emissions, North West Shelf, Bass Strait

BHP counts all the carbon emissions from projects it operates but ignores the climate impact of its investments in projects managed by other companies. This is not a credible approach to climate change, writes Peter Milne, from independent energy and climate news site Boiling Cold, as all owners have a say on the big decisions that affect emissions. Ignoring emissions is also great for executive bonuses.

Source: BHP carbon accounting good for executive bonuses, not for climate – Michael West

Corporate Media, Media

Rupert Murdoch and the ‘big surprise’ theory of accounting
When Governments and society stopped to matter

How the news mogul sold his media empire to himself. It’s a shocker.

Rupert Murdoch and the ‘big surprise’ theory of accounting
Trump, Trumpland, Uncategorized

Trump Uses Sleight-of-Hand to Hide His Failure to Save Lives

Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, left, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump ooints to a chart during a news conference at the White House in Washington D.C., U.S. on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Trump said that the stock market's recent upward trajectory shows that traders think his administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak has been a success. Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg

Trump’s accounting methods like his tax returns are not to be publicly seen (ODT)

Those states — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware — have recorded 35,718 deaths out of a combined population of about 53.6 million. That mortality rate of 66.6 per 100,000 for the region exceeds the current figure for every European country except Belgium, which, unlike the U.S., includes in its count a large number of deaths in nursing homes that are suspected of being virus-related, but have not been confirmed by testing.

“When @realDonaldTrump makes a macabre ranking, by pointing the finger at Belgium to give the impression that all is well in the U.S.A. I find it disgraceful, the basest of politics.”

via Trump Uses Sleight-of-Hand to Hide His Failure to Save Lives

Trump, Uncategorized

‘Just About Cruelty’: Sanders and Tlaib Rip Trump ‘Holiday Menu’ of Gifts for the Rich and Nutrition Cuts for the Poor | Common Dreams News

via ‘Just About Cruelty’: Sanders and Tlaib Rip Trump ‘Holiday Menu’ of Gifts for the Rich and Nutrition Cuts for the Poor | Common Dreams News