Our team based in Perth develops emissions reductions benchmarks and mitigation strategies aligned to the 1.5˚C warming limit for regional and national public sector and civil society actors. The office works closely with our longstanding partners in Australia, the Pacific, and in East and Southeast Asia.

Meet the team

Bill Hare(D.Sc. (hon. causa) (Murdoch))

CEO / Senior Scientist

Cindy Baxter

Senior Communications Consultant

Ella Strachan

Climate Research Analyst - Samoa

Estelle Roux

Director, Australia and Pacific Office

Hannah Grant

Climate and Policy Analyst

Kathleen George

Finance Assistant

Dr Nandini Das

Acting Deputy Director – Australia and Pacific Office, Climate and Energy Economist

Rino Maeda

Project Manager

Thomas Houlie

Climate and Energy Policy Analyst

Our projects

Gas phase-out

Coal phase-out

1.5°C national pathways

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Climate Action Tracker

Publications

Guide to a good 2035 climate target

Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale

Submission to the consultation on PRRT cover

Submission to the Australian Treasury consultation on the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax

Submission on Australia's future gas strategy

A 1.5°C future is possible: getting fossil fuels out of the Philippine power sector

Emissions impossible: Unpacking CSIRO GISERA Beetaloo Middle Arm fossil gas emissions estimates

Submission on the Western Australia draft climate bill

Coastal loss and damage for small islands

Phasing out coal-fired power in South and South-East Asia

The effects of political knowledge use by developing country negotiators in Loss and Damage negotiations

High and dry: the global energy transition's looming impact on the LNG and oil shipbuilding industry

Perdaman urea plant to increase emissions in Western Australia and misses green fertiliser opportunity

Comment

Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

Australia is unlikely to achieve its net zero target. This is because of its support for fossil gas to 2050 and beyond, it’s long-term emissions reduction plan resorts to unrealistic technological fixes and emissions offsets and because its legislated target of a 43% emissions cut by 2030 is not aligned with a 1.5°C pathway to net zero by 2050.

Why maintaining ambition for 1.5°C is critical

"One of the key things about this whole problem is that the only way to solve it is that we need to rapidly reduce and phase out fossil fuels. That can’t wait a decade. We need to be making substantial reductions this decade," Bill Hare said in address to the Australia Institute’s Climate Integrity Summit on 20 March 2024.

Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

The fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin that could undo all Australia's efforts to cut emissions.

Australia relies on controversial offsets to meet climate change targets. We might not get away with it in Egypt

"If offsets are not real, additional and permanent – or if they’re used to continue fossil fuel emissions – then they will make climate change worse rather than better." — Bill Hare

Scorched dystopia or liveable planet? Here’s where the climate policies of our political hopefuls will take us

In this blog post, first published in The Conversation, our CEO, Bill Hare, analyses Australia’s federal election campaign and the global warming implications of the policies of the Coalition, Labor, the Greens and the “teal” independents.

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From volcanic eruptions to tropical cyclones - adaptation and disaster risk reduction are still a question of finance for small islands

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are incredibly vulnerable to intensifying hazards from climate change. But the challenges that SIDS face in adapting can only be understood by looking at how these impacts interact with other risks – not all of them environmental.

Global Goal for Adaptation must be locally driven

Adaptation to climate change got more attention than ever during COP26. How countries and communities adapt to the inevitable climate change impacts is very context-specific which needs to be reflected in the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation.

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel investment for a decade is in the works – and its greenhouse gas emissions will be horrifying

The controversial Scarborough gas project off Western Australia will cause a substantial rise in greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the world must rapidly decarbonise, new analysis shows.

Yes, Australia can beat its 2030 emissions target. But the Morrison government barely lifted a finger.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to claim Australia will “meet and beat” its current 2030 target of reducing emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels. But our latest report shows almost all the emissions reductions will be the result of state government policies, and will have virtually nothing to do with the federal government. It also suggests that, given the almost total absence of substantial federal climate policies to date, Australia can do a lot more.

Planting mangroves helps to protect coastlines. Image by kmarius from Pixabay

Climate change and small islands: more scientific evidence of high risks

Small island developing states (SIDS) have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In a recently published article our researchers added further scientific evidence that island states are particularly at risk, and face unique challenges in addressing impacts.

COVID-19 will disrupt global food supply and prices, severely affecting atolls with limited land.

Facing Covid and climate, Pacific island capacity stretched

As the economic impacts of COVID-19 on Pacific Small Island Developing States stretch into 2020, there is a real risk that longer-term strategic action on climate change will take a back seat, and countries struggling to keep up with rising tides risk losing further ground.

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A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly

Every few years, the idea that gas will help Australia transition to a zero-emissions economy seems to re-emerge, as if no one had thought of it before. Federal energy minister Angus Taylor is the latest politician to jump on the gas bandwagon.

Media Coverage

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Meet the team

Our projects

Publications

Comment

Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

Why maintaining ambition for 1.5°C is critical

Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

Australia relies on controversial offsets to meet climate change targets. We might not get away with it in Egypt

Scorched dystopia or liveable planet? Here’s where the climate policies of our political hopefuls will take us

From volcanic eruptions to tropical cyclones - adaptation and disaster risk reduction are still a question of finance for small islands

Global Goal for Adaptation must be locally driven

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel investment for a decade is in the works – and its greenhouse gas emissions will be horrifying

Yes, Australia can beat its 2030 emissions target. But the Morrison government barely lifted a finger.

Climate change and small islands: more scientific evidence of high risks

Facing Covid and climate, Pacific island capacity stretched

A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly

Media Coverage