Bio

Ian Dunlop is a CPD Fellow. He was formerly a senior oil, gas and coal industry executive. He chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88, chaired the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading in 1999-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001.

Ian Dunlop's contributions:

It's Time to Heed the Evidence on Climate Change - full paper

Ian Dunlop makes the case for science-based climate policy

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• by Fiona Cameron

• Climate change

It's time to heed the evidence on climate change

Ian Dunlop tells us we need to heed the warnings of more recent climate science

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• Sustainable Economy
• Thinking Points

• CPRS
• climate change

The financial crisis – our great opportunity

Ian Dunlop exposes the wide-ranging problem underlying the financial crisis: environmentally unsustainable economic growth. Throughout the developed world, the financial crisis has prompted calls for the restoration of economic stability and moderation to a system wracked by greed. That culture of greed, which triggered the crisis, has led to a procession of unsustainable organisations going cap in hand to the central government to secure financial ‘bail-outs’. Such a process, however, is symptomatic of a much more wide-ranging problem.

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• by iandunlop

• Real world economics

Towards a realistic climate change policy

The Emissions Trading Task Group is a creature of another age - an age before we knew just how seriously our activities were jeapardising the climate. Former senior oil & coal industry executive Ian Dunlop argues that both sides of Australian politics need to wake up and smell the climate science.

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• by Admin

• Climate change
• Energy

Qantas sale: flying blind into turbulent times

The threat of climate change and the sale of Qantas have sat cheek-by-jowl on the business pages in recent weeks - but no one has spotted the link between the two. Former head of the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading Ian Dunlop explains the implications of climate change & peak oil for a debt-laden Qantas.

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• by Miriam Lyons

• Climate change
• Energy

• peak oil
• debt