Sustainable Economy
The Sustainable Economy Program focuses on policy ideas and partnerships to build a more environmentally and socially sustainable economy. Australia has a tremendous opportunity to leverage its abundant natural resources, wealth and creativity to build a fair, sustainable and prosperous economy – one that provides a secure future for all Australians. But this can only happen if the right policy settings are in place, and if both private and public actors are focussed on the things that really drive risk, growth and wellbeing in the long term.
In recent years, our Sustainable Economy Program research has helped drive a major shift in how Australian business, investors and regulators are responding to long-term challenges and opportunities stemming from climate change and sustainable finance. We have also continued longer-term research on energy, sustainable agriculture and the national security implications of climate change. Please read on below for more information about our work.
Experts
Sam Mostyn (Board Member)
Expertise
Business & sustainable development; climate change; international development
Richard Bolt (Fellow)
Expertise
Economic development; governance; sustainable public value; energy; transport; education
Professor Roy Green (Research Committee)
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
Legal action on climate is what we all want to avoid – CPD CEO Travers McLeod in the AFR
Travers McLeod - December 2019
Efforts to understand climate risk within companies and across the economy are not about managing climate through the legal system, usurping the role of government, or forcing companies to go...
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CPD Business Roundtable on Climate and Sustainability | EVENT | November 2019
communications - December 2019
On 21 November, CPD convened a business roundtable on climate change and sustainability which brought together senior executives and directors from Australia’s biggest banks, insurers, investors, businesses and superannuation funds, senior...
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Full text of Kenneth Hayne AC QC remarks to CPD climate roundtable
Travers McLeod - December 2019
Below is the text of remarks delivered by The Hon Mr Kenneth Hayne AC QC at the Centre for Policy Development’s Business Roundtable on Climate and Sustainability on 21 November...
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Climate Risk Update: Regulators in ‘lock-step on climate change’
communications - September 2019
Australia’s financial regulators continue to step up their leadership on climate change. Three key developments in August 2019 built on CPD’s research and series of landmark public statements on climate...
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Travers McLeod’s response to Rebecca Huntley’s Quarterly Essay, Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation
Luisa Boll - July 2019
In reply to Rebecca Huntley’s Quarterly Essay, Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation TRAVERS MCLEOD At the heart of Rebecca Huntley’s Australia Fair is the idea that we are a nation of democrats....
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Latest eNews
communications - June 2019
Dear CPD follower In the first half of 2019, CPD has worked hard to get results that are real and transformative. Our unique method — to create, connect and convince — has seen...
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Updated Hutley opinion on directors’ duties and climate risk
Luisa Boll - March 2019
Full supplementary memorandum of opinion here Today CPD has released an update of a landmark 2016 legal opinion on how Australian law requires company directors to consider, disclose and respond to...
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Heavyweights now speaking with one voice on climate change risks | Op-ed Sam Hurley | March 2019
Luisa Boll - March 2019
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 24 March 2019 Climate change is reshaping Australia’s economy and financial system, and its consequences will be devastating without urgent action. If that message had...
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Political communication: selling broadsheet policy in a twitter age I ANU-CPD Policy Dialogue I March 2019
Luisa Boll - March 2019
Full audio recording available soon. On 14 March, we hosted the first ANU-CPD Policy Dialogue for 2019 on the topic of Political communication: selling broadsheet policy in a Twitter age’,...
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Climate Change and the Economy with the RBA’s Guy Debelle | PUBLIC FORUM | March 2019
Luisa Boll - March 2019
Full audio of the public forum available here. Full speech by RBA Deputy Governor Dr Guy Debelle available here. On 12 March, as part of our latest public forum on...
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CPD brings Professor Mariana Mazzucato to Australia | December 2018
Luisa Boll - February 2019
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Murray-Darling report shows public authorities must take climate change risk seriously | Op-ed | Arjuna Dibley
Luisa Boll - February 2019
Published in The Conversation on 4 February 2019. The tragic recent events on the Darling River, and the political and policy furore around them, have again highlighted the severe financial and...
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Public authority directors’ duties and climate change | DISCUSSION PAPER | January 2019
communications - February 2019
CPD has released a new discussion paper on the legal obligations of public sector corporate boards and directors to consider climate-related risks. Public authority directors’ duties and climate change finds...
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Can the State Deliver? | John Menadue Oration by Mariana Mazzucato | December 2018
Luisa Boll - December 2018
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Time for an Australian sustainable finance taskforce
Travers McLeod - July 2018
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 22 July 2018. ASIC commissioner John Price.Photo: Jeremy Piper ASIC commissioner John Price left a Sydney audience in no room for doubt last month when...
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