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In response to disasters like Superstorm Sandy, engineers are developing new building codes and tools to calculate the value of upgrades. National policy should encourage builders to use these tools.
As Atlantic hurricane season opens on June 1, eastern U.S. cities can prepare by updating laws, codes and ordinances that hamper rebuilding after storms.
Without a functional international climate policy, and a set of Australian policies that look set to be repealed, it might seem that business offers the greatest hope for mitigating climate change. Business…
Australia’s agriculture and forestry - land-based abatement - can make a valuable contribution to lowering Australia’s greenhouse emissions. The scale of contribution has been widely discussed. But the…
Researchers have discovered a new bushfire phenomenon called “fire channelling” that occurs only on steep slopes facing away…
The latest emissions data from the International Energy Agency suggest that our current methods for dealing with climate change have not worked. This means we will have to adapt to climate change, for…
The world has been fiddling while the forests burn, or are otherwise lost. One proposal to keep what’s left intact is REDD – essentially, paying countries to conserve their forest carbon stocks. REDD (Reducing…
Energy efficiency is globally seen as the biggest and best option for cheaply reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dealing with rising power bills. But in Australia it still struggles for recognition…
There’s been a boom in sustainable products and packaging from keep cups to green bags - but how important is sustainable design in reducing our global footprint? Sustainable design can play a critical…
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer Sustainable Design, Lancaster University
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Master of University House and Professor of Forestry, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Mission Lead Towards Net Zero, CSIRO
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Manager Centre for Applied Risk Management (UARM) and Associate Professor Risk Management, North-West University
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Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Behavioral Science, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Researcher in Environmental Engineering & Technology Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
