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Reforms that tinker at the edge of ‘business as usual’ will not be enough to ensure our environment’s capacity to support current and future generations. The Centre for Policy Development's Environment program is dedicated to researching policy options that can take us beyond our current impasse and allow us to live on the environment's income rather than its capital.

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Energy Security: The Real Story on Fossil Fuels

Ian Dunlop, CPD fellow, well-known peak oil commentator and former fossil fuel scientist will speak at the second session of the Engery Securities series at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, Sydney on June 19, 2008.


Climate Action Network Australia Conference Panel: Can Business Lead on Climate Change?

CPD fellow Ian Dunlop was part of of a panel discussing the role of business in implementing climate change solutions at the 2008 CANA conference held in Sydney on 28 April.


Not all roads lead to Rome: Crisis without collapse

CPD members are invited to join Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop in Sydney on August 27th to discuss how we can build our capacity to deal with environmental and economic crises.


Preparing for the long haul on climate change: A one-day roundtable

This roundtable in Brisbane on August 29 will focus on community and business governance in the era of climate change, with keynote speaker Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop.


Environment policy in Australia: beyond 'business as usual'

The Centre for Policy Development is running a series of articles and discussion papers looking at how we can move beyond our current impasse on environmental policy. This series will attempt to unearth the basic principles that Australia’s policy makers need to uphold if true sustainability is to be achieved.



Motivating Residential Energy Conservation

CPD fellow Mark L. Connelly marks the Rudd Government’s report card on residential energy conservation: Under the recommendations of the Garnaut Climate Change Review, residential electricity prices are projected to rise by 21 to 31 per cent by 2020. The review recommends mitigation strategies for low-income households, but there is little discussion of helping Australians change their energy use behaviour to reduce consumption. If Australians can be assisted and motivated to reduce their household energy consumption, they may be able to mitigate the projected increase in their electricity bill, while contributing to the overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.


Common Ground: climate change

The Centre for Policy Development brings you a Common Ground discussion on climate change with the topic ‘Australia should lead, not follow’. Join keynote speakers Bob Carr (former Premier, NSW), (NSW Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Environment) followed by a panel of Fiona Wain (Environment Business Australia), Steve Hatfield-Dodds (former CSIRO, now Department of Climate Change) and Imam Afroz Ali (from the ‘Australian Religious Response to Climate Change’ initiative) at Customs House, Sydney on Wednesday 26 November 2008, 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

Limited places! Click through to register your seat online.


Time for a Coherent Forest Policy - Finally

What can the Commonwealth do to protect Australia’s forests, asks Judith Ajani: Australia is sitting pretty with plantations making possible native forest protection for immediate and significant reductions in our net greenhouse gas emissions. Calls for native forest protection in Australia started with the lobbying of the Argus and Australasian newspapers as the mid 1860s drought deepened. A century later a second wave of concerned citizens added plants and animals to the list as state governments approved clear-felling public native forests for export woodchips. Half a century after that, the earth’s atmosphere has joined the list.


5 ideas in 5 minutes

In this month's 5 ideas in 5 minutes, Daniel Frank gathers new thinking on transport in cities: Velib │ Public Transport funded by Fuel Tax │ Dynamic Kerbside Pricing │ Transport Innovation Fund │ Insurance by the Mile


Affordable Housing through Leasehold Title?

Barbara Coombs argues that many people are stuck between the high costs of home ownership and the insecurity of renting. A third option, residential leasehold title, could provide the best of both worlds for many households.


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