Policy Papers
Mandatory Disclosure of Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities: Submission to Treasury
Lachlan Williams - March 2023
Government authorities and large privately-held businesses should ultimately disclose climate risks alongside publicly traded companies to support a swift, just and orderly transition to net zero
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Investing for Australia – Clarifying Climate Risk Expectations for the Future Fund
Lachlan Williams - December 2022
Investing for Australia: Clarifying climate risk expectations for the Future Fund assess the sovereign wealth fund's climate risk response and recommends three steps to put the Future Fund on the path to climate risk and opportunity leadership
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RBA Review submission: Equipping the RBA for a dynamic climate risk and transition response
Lachlan Williams - November 2022
The Reserve Bank is governed by a 63-year-old law that requires the RBA Board to contribute to economic prosperity and welfare. It makes sense to update this to account for the realities of climate change and the need for a swift, just and orderly transition to net zero emissions to...
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Principles for an effective wellbeing budget
Lachlan Williams - September 2022
Principles for an Effective Wellbeing Budget is a briefing paper by the Centre for Policy Development's Wellbeing Initiative. It builds on the research contained in the Redefining Progress report to articulate working principles for the October 2022 Federal Budget in the context of a broader Australian approach to wellbeing government...
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Raising the Bar: Managing climate change risk in public authorities
Lachlan Williams - September 2022
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Redefining Progress: Global lessons for an Australian approach to wellbeing
Lachlan Williams - August 2022
Redefining Progress is a report from the Centre For Policy Development's Wellbeing Initiative. Looking at 21 global approaches to wellbeing over the past 50 years it identifies four key characteristics of advanced wellbeing approaches to guide an Australia's wellbeing journey.
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Who’s buying? – Centre for Policy Development
Jeremy McEachern - January 2022
Who’s buying? in the media AFR and ABC both covered the release of the report Toby Phillips appeared on ABC News and AM to discuss the report’s findings It was also covered by AAP,Business Insider Australia, future Net Zero, The Epoch Times, RenewEconomy and Energy News Bulletin.
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