Dr Kar Mei Tang is Chief Circular Economist with NSW Circular. Her work focuses on how environmental and economic policy can intersect to bring about better local and global outcomes. Her experience spans many years of senior executive and governance roles in these fields in the public and private sectors, in Australia and internationally.

Conscious decoupling: creating a more sustainable model of material use in a growing economy
9 May 2022

Australia’s material footprint per capita is rising. But with the right policies, we can break the nexus between depleting our ecological resources and improving economic growth.
Kar Mei Tang

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Conscious decoupling: creating a more sustainable model of material use in a growing economy

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