Climate change and environment

The Climate Change and Environment theme of BHRIGHT illuminates the role that business plays in critical environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity and pollution, and the impacts this has on human rights.

It offers a lens on how climate change impacts the operation of business in Australia’s future ‘carbon constrained economy’; how environmental accountability is key to long term business success, particularly in terms of human rights issues.

We conduct research and provide commentary on specific fields of interest such as climate change risk, stakeholder engagement, building standards, transport and mobility, energy consumption, GHG emissions measurement and reporting. The Climate Change and Environment theme intersects with the work of other themes in BHRIGHT, for example in relation to climate refugees and migration, the gendered impact of climate change, and the varied effects of a warmer world on work in supply chains.

Researchers

Climate Change and Environment Researchers

Dr Saima Ahmad, Dr Carol Bond, Dr Serene Ho, Akshay Jadhav, Dr Vanessa Johnston, Dr Anne Kallies, Dr Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Professor Alan Lowe, Gabriella Belfrage-Maher, Associate Professor Laura Maran

Theme resources

Projects

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.