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Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to use Perspektiv’s Adventure Leave for something I’d been talking about for years: an eight-day rafting trip down Tasmania’s Franklin River with a group of old uni mates. 

In Australia, the pendulum is swinging from voluntary action back towards mandatory action. This has everything to do with the 2024 amendments to the Corporations Act that mandate climate-related financial disclosures. As more entities are captured by these rules each year, the ESG conversation is shifting fast.

At Perspektiv, diversity isn’t a campaign; it’s the lived experience of our team. We bring together people with different cultural backgrounds, disciplines, perspectives and life experiences, and that mix shapes how we think, collaborate and solve problems. 

As 2025 wraps up, it’s hard to miss the global sustainability plot twists, shifting political positions, trade tensions, tariff chatter… the list goes on. But while politicians debate, revise, and occasionally reverse, one thing has become crystal clear:  Businesses aren’t waiting. They’re getting on with it. 

Transmission networks, renewable energy hubs, water recycling facilities , and resource recovery plants are rapidly becoming the defining features of Australia’s infrastructure pipeline. These projects are no longer “emerging trends”; they are becoming the backbone of a net-zero and climate-resilient future. But an important truth is often overlooked: Building more energy and water infrastructure does not automatically mean building sustainable infrastructure. 

Sustainability and climate risk aren’t “nice to have” anymore; they’re business fundamentals. Organisations across every sector are now expected to understand their climate-related risks, respond to regulation and weave ESG into everyday decision-making.  One qualification that genuinely enables this capability is the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR®) Certification. 

Our lives increasingly depend on the cloud, but while we are staring at our screens, few of us are actively contemplating the physical infrastructure that makes it possible. Data centres enable streamed movies, online payments, and AI queries: energy- and water-hungry facilities that are becoming increasingly critical and commonplace in Australia. 

Last week, our team swapped the office for the forest at Nanga Bush Camp, two days designed to recharge, reconnect, and remind ourselves what makes Perspektiv such a special place to work.