Sustainable Economy
The Sustainable Economy Program aims to identify options for Australia to make a rapid transition to an environmentally and socially sustainable economy. Australia has tremendous opportunity to leverage its abundant natural resources and skills in innovation to build a fair, sustainable and prosperous economy – one that provides a secure future for all Australians. Yet to do so, we need to get the policy settings right.
The Sustainable Economy Program is underpinned by an understanding of the problems caused by systemic short-termism in both the public and private sectors, and by the failure to value public goods which are hard to measure or monetise. It seeks to highlight the importance of ‘valuing what matters’ and of properly considering the long-term drivers of risk, prosperity and wellbeing.
Experts
Sam Mostyn (Board Member)
Expertise
Business & sustainable development; climate change; international development
Professor Roy Green
Expertise
Innovation policy and management, industry and labour market analysis, business education
Prof John Wiseman (Fellow)
Expertise
Climate change impacts & policies; sustainability & resilience challenges & strategies; just transitions to zero carbon economy
Latest Articles
CPD climate work featured in 4Corners ‘Weather Alert’ report
communications - March 2018
Last night the ABC’s 4Corners program aired a special report about how Australian farmers, businesses and regulators are responding to climate change. CPD’s Sustainable Economy Program has been making the...
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CPD Board member Sam Mostyn on the evolving role of company directors
Travers McLeod - March 2018
Influential independent director and CPD Board Member Sam Mostyn delivered the keynote at the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ 2018 Governance Summit on ‘’The evolving role of directors.” Full text...
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Building a Sustainable Economy | PUBLIC FORUM | November 2017
communications - November 2017
On 29 November, CPD hosted the final event in our special 10th anniversary series – a public forum in Sydney on the theme ‘Building a sustainable economy.’ CPD’s Sustainable...
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Climate horizons: next steps for scenario analysis in Australia | DISCUSSION PAPER AND PUBLIC FORUM | November 2017
communications - November 2017
Today CPD releases a new discussion paper on how business and investors can use scenario analysis in order to better understand and respond to climate-related risks and opportunities. The paper,...
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