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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

  • Anna Skarbek and Joshua Danahay

  • Måns Carlsson

  • Amanda Tattersall

More articles

  • Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it.

    Veena Sahajwalla

  • 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