The ANU Climate Change Institute plays a strong role in bringing together expertise from the core areas to form interdisciplinary teams designed to tackle the most complex climate change problems.

Integrated climate change response options for Canberra

Working with our own community to design and implement knowledge-based solutions to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and adapting to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Project(s): Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Canberra and the SE region : an integrated Biophysical, Policy and Governance Approach Collaborators/Funding Agency: ACT Government (Funding agency) Project Leader: Assoc Prof Janette Lindesay

Adaptation to climate change in rural Australia

A broad-ranging study of the many ways in which climate change will affect livelihoods and well-being in rural Australia, from changes in agricultural productivity through impacts of extreme weather on health to the implications of climate change for rural communities. Project(s): Drought and Drying in Rural Australia, Project Leade: Prof Tony McMichael

China in the 21st century: climate change and development

An integrated approach to studying climate change in one of the world’s most dynamic countries, from the impacts of climate change on China’s food production and water resources to its geopolitical implications for the nation’s security and international negotiation strategies. Project(s): Several project proposals have been submitted for approval.

Society-climate interactions in the past

Working towards an integrated history of people and environment, with an emphasis on the transformation or collapse of past civilisations under climatic stresses. Project(s): Integrated History and Future of People of Earth (IHOPE). Part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. Project Leaders: Adjunct Prof Mike Smith and Dr Libby Robin.

Climate-energy-water systems

Exploring system-level links, synergies, trade-offs and feedbacks towards designing energy and water policies for more resilient and adaptable societies. Project(s): To establish a new conceptual framework capable of supporting integrative policy making in the climate-energy-water system. Collaborators: UTS (Sydney) and ANU (Canberra) Project leaders: Dr Barry Newell (National) and Dr Karen Hussey (International) (COST)