Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy: A Guide for Decision-Makers

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Ken Baldwin is Director of the Australian National University (ANU) Energy Change Institute and an ANU Public Policy Fellow. He is also Director of the ANU ECI Grand Challenge Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific. Professor Baldwin won the 2004 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science for initiating and championing Science meets Parliament. He received the Australian Optical Society medal and the Barry Inglis Medal of the National Measurement Institute. Stuart Mark Howden is Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University. He has researched climate impacts adaptation and emission-reduction for food security energy water resources and urban systems. He has partnered with many industry community and policy groups. A major contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1991 he is now a Vice-Chair of the IPCC. He shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore and IPCC colleagues. Michael Smith has been a Research Fellow or Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University since 2006. He has co-authored or contributed to over 200 publications on climate change including Climate Energy and Water: Managing Trade-offs Seizing Opportunities (Cambridge University Press 2015) Factor Five (Routledge 2010) Cents and Sustainability (Routledge 2010) Whole System Design (Routledge 2009) and Natural Advantage of Nations (Routledge 2005). Karen Hussey is an Honorary Professor with the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland. As an academic Karen's research and teaching focused on the policy institutional and governance arrangements needed to address issues including climate change water resource management waste management biodiversity conservation and the 'trade-environment' nexus. Karen currently works in the Queensland Government. Peter Dawson is a consultant and writer and former senior officer for the Australian Government. He has worked on international trade industry development technology transfer and government procurement policy. He has consulted internationally on Small and Medium Enterprise development for the World Bank and other agencies mainly in Indonesia.