The Centre for Policy Development and Essential Media Communications presents: Our debt to nature - We need what nature provides, but do we really know how much we’re using & how much is left to use? Pati Poblete | Global Footprint Network Join us upstairs at The Norfolk Hotel on Thursday, 7 April at 5.30pm to hear Pati Poblete from the international think … more
Articles tagged: sustainable economy
Alexander White | Accommodating China’s carbon emissions
Alexander White tackles two issues that seem too hard for our political system to handle: China and climate change. China’s response to climate change has shaped the course of climate negotiations. They were accused of stymieing negotiations at Copenhagen, and conservatives have used China’s reticence to adopt binding carbon reduction targets as an excuse for taking no action at all. But as China becomes the world’s largest carbon polluter, it is also on track to become the largest global producer of renewable energy. t’s a catch-22 for the Chinese Government – continued growth is essential to reduce domestic poverty, while the effects of climate change threaten its national security. more
Hiring now: Research Director | CPD Sustainable Economy Program
We’re hiring now: Research Director for our Sustainable Economy Program Help develop the evidence and ideas we need to make Australia’s economy sustainable Full-time, two-year position Based in Sydney About the CPD The Centre for Policy Development is a non-profit research institute that provides a platform for progressive ideas for policy change. CPD combats short-termism in public policy by developing … more
The value of nature & the nature of value | Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev, an economist and head of the UN Green Economy Initiative, was in Australia as a guest of the Centre for Policy Development in August 2010 to give three public lectures in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Pavan is an expert on the natural capital that gets left off government and corporate balance sheets. The cost of the global financial … more
What is the World Worth? Putting Nature on the Balance Sheet | Pavan Sukhdev August 3, 4 & 5
A 2010 speaking tour with Pavan Sukhdev. more
What we failed to learn from the GFC
Ian McAuley draws our attention to a report that Chris Bowen, Minister for Financial Services, released in the sleepy season – the Johnson report on the finance sector more
Difficult, but not diabolical
Miriam Lyons, CPD’s Executive Director, looks at the role of faith and visions of change in moving beyond our current impasse. more
Cooperation, Community and Climate Change
Rob Salter reflects on the deeper implications of responding to climate change for the way we organise our society, in his new paper that explains why better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change more
Time to prepare for the One Degree War
Paul Gilding, climate activist and writer revisits a paper he co-wrote with Jorgen Randers, shouting out above the drone of the day to day political negotiations that what we are facing is nothing short of a global emergency. He contends it’s not too late (yet!) – if we have the political will to mobilise resources and human ingenuity – to keep temperatures below a 1oC rise by reducing CO2 concentrations below 350ppm. more