Please join this seminar to be chaired by Sarah Cliffe on the latest
policy discussions in Australia on the impact of climate change and next steps.
The Garnaut Climate Change Review was an independent study conducted by
Professor Ross Garnaut and commissioned by Australia's federal, state and
territory Governments. The Review, completed on September 30 after extensive
consultations, is very influential in Australia and similar to the Stern Report
in the UK. It identified medium- and long-term domestic and international
policy recommendations to maintain the country's prosperity while mitigating the
negative influences of global warming and GHGs.
Professor Garnaut, an economic advisor to Prime Minister Rudd, has been a
Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at
the Australian National University since 1989. In 2008, he was appointed as
Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Professor Garnaut is a
director of the Lowy Institute, Australia's leading international policy think
tank. He is currently Chairman of a number of international companies and
research organizations, including the International Food Policy Research
Institute, and a board member of several others. From 1985-88, Professor
Garnaut was Australia's Ambassador to China.
Sarah and Professor Garnaut will be joined by Warren Evans, Director of
Environment, SDN, Kirk Hamilton, co-author of the 2009 WDR on Development and
Climate Change and Lead Environmental Economist and Team Leader Policy and
Economic in the Environment Department, SDN, and Johannes Heister, our Climate
Change and Carbon Finance Coordinator in EASOP.
The full report can be accessed at: www.garnautreview.org.au. For more
information about Australian progress on carbon reduction policies, please click
on http://www.climatechange.gov.au/greenpaper/factsheets/index.html.
James Adams, Vice President, East Asia & Pacific Region, World Bank
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