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Sustainability

How can Australia achieve greater sustainability and transition to a Net Zero economy in an inclusive and resilient way?

  • Innovative analysis of paleoclimate data from the last thousand years is informing better environmental management. What more can governments do to harness this valuable natural record to improve policymaking?

    Phlippa Higgins

    Chris Turney

    Jonathan Palmer

  • Måns Carlsson

  • Amanda Tattersall

  • Veena Sahajwalla

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  • For Australia to become more inclusive—where no one is left behind—children need to be front of mind for policymakers when developing and implementing our post-Covid recovery framework.

    Alicia Mollaun

  • There is now an effective consensus around net zero—and Australia has a range of promising sector-specific climate policies for getting there. Policymakers need to shift their focus to doing so at minimum cost.

    Steven Hamilton

  • 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