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Ross Gregory GarnautAC (born 28 July , Perth^[1]) is an Australian economist, currently serving as a vice-chancellor's fellow and professorial fellow of economics at the University of Melbourne.^[2] He is the author of numerous publications in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific.

Throughout his career Garnaut held a number of influential political and economic positions as: senior economic adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke (–), Australia's ambassador to China (–), chairman of the Primary Industry Bank of Australia (–), chairman of Bankwest (–), head of division in the Papua New Guinea Department of Finance (–) and chairman of Lihir Gold.

On 30 April the state and territory governments of Australia, at the request of Kevin Rudd, then leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, appointed Garnaut to examine the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy and recommend medium to long-term policies and policy frameworks to improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity.^[3] The Garnaut Climate Change Review was finalised on 30 September ,^[4] with a finalised update being released on 31 May ^[5] Garnaut concluded his role as climate change advisor for the Australian Government on 30 June ^[6]

Career

Garnaut attended Perth Modern School and then the Australian National University.

Professor ross garnaut biography of albert camus: His award-winning work spans global brands and NGOs, with a focus on impactful storytelling and driving positive social change. Australian Greens leader Bob Brown showed that the report demonstrated that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would not come at the expense of Australia's economic growth. Baethan Mullen Chief Executive Officer Baethan Mullen has over 20 years of experience in public policy, economics and advocacy. He told the media: "Nuclear energy is an important part of the global response to a low-carbon economy , but under Australian circumstances, it is not obvious that nuclear is an important part of our answer.

He attained a Bachelor of Arts in and a PhD in as a student of Peter Drysdale.

He was previously distinguished Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (–), Head of Economics Department at ANU (–) and the Director of the ANU Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management. He retired from ANU before moving to the University of Melbourne.

Notable positions include Principal Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke (–); Australian Ambassador to China (–); First Assistant Secretary (Head of the Division of General Financial and Economic Policy), Papua New Guinea Department of Finance in the years straddling independence in ; and Member of the Advisory Council to the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (–).

He was Deputy Chairman and Member of the Australia-China Council (–); and author of the Report to the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, , Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendency, (Australian Parliament Publicity Service, Canberra, ).

Contributions

Garnaut has held a number of government and corporate board positions, while maintaining an academic profile as an economist.

For example, he was chairman of the Papua New Guinea Sustainable Development Program from to ,^[7] but resigned after Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government banned Garnaut from entering Papua New Guinea due to a dispute with BHP Billiton.^[8] He was chairman of Lihir Gold from until the merger with Newcrest in ^[9][10] and he was a trustee ( to ) and then chairman of the International Food Policy Research Institute ( to ).^[11]

Garnaut commented after Cyclone Yasi affected Queensland in that the extensive body of climate science suggested that "cyclonic events will be more intense in a hotter world".

He further noted that if there were an intensification of extreme weather events with less than one degree of warming experienced and, if strong emissions growth was expected from many rapidly growing developing countries, then "you ain’t seen nothing yet" in terms of the intensification of extreme weather events.^[12][13][14] Recent studies by Australian scientists have detected a long-term shift towards wet extremes and hot extremes occurring at the same time, consistent with changes as a result of increased concentrations in greenhouse gases.^[15][16]

Garnaut Climate Change Review

Main article: Garnaut Climate Change Review

The Garnaut Climate Change Review was commissioned by former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd,^[17] and by the Australia's state and territory governments on 30 April After his election on 24 November the Rudd, confirmed the participation of the Commonwealth Government in the review.

The final report was released on 30 September ^[18] and recommended that Australia should indicate at an early date its preparedness to play its full, proportionate part in an effective global agreement that 'adds up' to either a or a emissions concentrations scenario, or to a corresponding point between.

Australia’s full part for in a scenario would be a reduction of 25 per cent in emissions entitlements from levels. For , reductions would be 90 per cent from levels (95 per cent per capita). Australia’s full part for in a scenario would be a reduction in entitlements of 10 per cent from levels. For , reductions would be 80 per cent from levels or 90 per cent per capita.

If there is no comprehensive global agreement at Copenhagen in , Australia, in the context of an agreement among developed countries only, should commit to reduce its emissions by 5 per cent (25 per cent per capita) from levels by , or 13 per cent from the Kyoto compliance – period.^[19]

The report's recommendations in terms of policy, apart from a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme which included forestry and agriculture, centred heavily on hoping that carbon capture and storage and other coal pollution mitigation technologies would be available on a wide scale within the next twenty years.

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The report was criticised by the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry for the economic impact that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would have.^[20] It was also heavily criticised by environmental organisations, including Friends of the Earth^[21] and Rising Tide Australia.^[22] The Australian Conservation Foundation praised the report for advocating a ppm target.^[23]Clive Hamilton was heavily critical of the report, arguing that it reduced global expectations of what should be aimed for, naively exposed Australia's negotiating tactics to the international diplomatic sphere, alienates both the Australian public and the international community, misjudges the time frames necessary to avoid dangerous climate change, gives Australia numerous special deals, and would be rejected by the international community.^[24]

Responses from political parties were mixed.

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown showed that the report demonstrated that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would not come at the expense of Australia's economic growth.^[25] Climate Change Minister Penny Wong did not comment directly on the report but said that economic responsibility needed to be considered in responding to the report, and that the Government would wait before Treasury modelling on climate change mitigation before responding.^[26]

In November the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned Professor Garnaut to update his Garnaut Climate Change Review.^[27] Eight papers were released in February and March ^[28] and the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review Update was presented to the Government on 31 May ^[5]

In September , Professor Garnaut was appointed as an independent expert advisor to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee.^[29] The committee will explore options for the implementation of a carbon price and will help to build consensus on how Australia will tackle the challenge of climate change.

Garnaut on nuclear power

In , Garnaut was of the opinion that nuclear was not obviously necessary in Australia's low carbon energy future. He told the media: "Nuclear energy is an important part of the global response to a low-carbon economy, but under Australian circumstances, it is not obvious that nuclear is an important part of our answer."^[30]

His position on the matter was countered by Ziggy Switkowski, leader of the UMPNER Review, and an advocate for nuclear power in Australia.

Garnaut considers nuclear power to be a "low emissions" energy source, given its negligible emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during plant operation. As such, he supports nuclear power as part of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions especially given rising energy consumption in Asia. He has also publicly noted China's commitment to expanding its fleet of nuclear reactors, even in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.^[31][32]

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Personal life

Married to Jayne, with sons John (born – a journalist for Fairfax Media newspapers) and Anthony ().

Books

• Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession. Black, Inc., Melbourne.
• Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity.
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  La Trobe University Press, Melbourne.

• (edited with Ligang Song and Cai Fang) China’s 40 Years of Reform and Development: –. Australian National University E-Press, Canberra
• (with Ligang Song, Cai Fang and Lauren Johnston (eds)), China’s Domestic Transformation in a Global Context. Australian National University E-Press, Canberra, co-published with the Social Sciences Academic Press (China).
• Dog days: Australia after the boom.

  Redback, Melbourne.

• The Garnaut Review Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
• (with Jane Golley and Ligang Song (eds) China: The Next 20 Years of Reform and Development. ANU E Press, Canberra, co-published with the Social Sciences Academic Press (China).
• (with David Llewellyn-Smith), The Great Crash of , Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne.
• (with Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), China’s New Place in a World in Crisis.

  Australian National University E-Press (Canberra), Brookings Institution Press (Washington) and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

• The Garnaut Climate Change Review. Cambridge University Press.
• (with Ligang Song (eds)), China: Linking Markets for Growth. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra
• (with Ligang Song (eds), The Turning Point in China’s Economic Development.

  Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra

• (with Ligang Song (eds), The China Boom and Its Discontents. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• (with Ligang Song, Stoyan Tenev, Yang Yao), China’s Ownership Transformation. International Finance Corporation, Washington DC.
• (with Ligang Song (eds.), China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable? Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University Press, Canberra.
• (with Ligang Song (eds.), China’s Third Economic Transformation.

  RoutledgeCurzon, London.

• (with Ligang Song, (eds.), China: New Engine of World Growth. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University Press, Canberra.
• (with Rana Ganguly and Jongsoon Kang), Report to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Migration to Australia and Comparisons with the United States: Who Benefits? Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
• (ed.) Pacific Economic Outlook –04.

  Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.

• (with Ligang Song, (eds.), China , WTO Entry and World Recession. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• (ed) Resource Management in Asia Pacific Developing Countries. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• Review of Commonwealth-State Funding.

  Review of Commonwealth-State Funding, Victoria.

• (ed.) Pacific Economic Outlook – Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• Social Democracy in Australia’s Asian Future. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
• (with Ligang Song, Yang Yao and Xiaolu Wang) Private Enterprise in China.

  Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, and China Centre for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing.

• (with Huang Yiping (eds), Growth Without Miracles. Oxford University Press.
• (with Ligang Song (eds), China: Twenty Years of Reform. Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• (with Ross H.

  McLeod (eds), East Asia in Crisis: from being a miracle to needing one?. Routledge, London and New York.

• Open Regionalism & Trade Liberalization: An Asia Pacific Contribution to the World Trade System. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
• (with Guo Shutian and Ma Guonan (eds), The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside.

  Cambridge University Press.

• (with E. Grilli and J. Riedel (eds), Sustaining Export-Oriented Development. Cambridge University Press.
• (with Peter Drysdale (eds), Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Economic Relations. HarperEducation Publishers.
• Asian Market Economies: Challenges of a Changing International Environment.

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

• Structuring for Global Realities, Report of the Wool Industry Review Committee. Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra.
• (with Ma Guonan), Grain in China. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
• (with Liu Guoguang (eds), Economic Reform and Internationalisation: China and the Pacific Region.

  Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

• Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendancy. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
• (with Kym Anderson), Australian Protectionism: Extent, Causes and Effects. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
• (with Christopher Findlay (eds), The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection: Experiences of ASEAN and Australia. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
• (with Paul Baxter), Exchange Rate and Macro-economic Policy in Independent Papua New Guinea.

  Australian National University, Pacific Research Monograph No

• (with Anthony Clunies Ross), Taxation of Mineral Rents. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
• (ed) ASEAN in a Changing Pacific and World Economy, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
• (with P.T. McCawley, (eds), Indonesia: Dualism, Growth and Poverty.

  Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra.

• (with C.G. Manning), Perubahan Sosial Ekonomi di Irian Jaya, Penerbit PT Gramedia, Jakarta.
• (with Michael Wright and Richard Curtain), Employment, Incomes and Migration in Papua New Guinea Towns. Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research (Monograph No.6), Port Moresby.
• (ed.) The Foreign Economic Relations of Papua New Guinea. Australian National University, New Guinea Research Unit Bulletin, No, Port Moresby and Canberra.
• (with C.

  Manning). Irian Jaya: The Transformation of a Melanesian Economy. Australian National University Press, Canberra.

• (with R.K. Wilson). A Survey of Village Industries in Papua New Guinea. The Australian National University, New Guinea Research Unit Bulletin No, Port Moresby and Canberra

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