One Year After the Garnaut Climate Change Review

14 September 2009

Professor Ross Garnaut AO

Professor Ross Garnaut presented the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 September 2008, the morning of the largest ever one day points fall on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, the histories of the financial crisis and climate change policy have been closely linked. Amongst much else, they have been linked by the challenge that Governments have faced, in Australia, in the United States and elsewhere, in formulating policy in the national interest alongside an extraordinary presence of vested interests in the policy making process. This lecture analysed the past year's history of policy-making on climate change in this difficult context, and assess the prospects of the world developing a satisfactory response to the risks of dangerous human-induced climate change.

Part of the Toyota-ANU Public Lecture Series 2009

Broad Topics: Asia and the Pacific

Sub-topics: Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science

Areas: ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Professor Ross Garnaut AO is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and a Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, at the University of Melbourne as well as a Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. Professor Garnaut is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific. In addition to his distinguished academic career, Professor Garnaut has also had longstanding and successful roles as policy advisor, diplomat and businessman. He was the Senior Economic Adviser to Australian Prime Minister R.J.L. Hawke from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently served as the Australian Ambassador to China, 1985 to 1988.