Ian Dunlop
(Senior Member of the Advisory Board for Breakthrough. Ian was an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association and chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. From 1998-2000 he chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading. He is a member of the Club of Rome).
David Spratt
(Research Director for Breakthrough and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action (Scribe 2008). His recent reports include Recount: It’s time to “Do the math” again. Climate Reality Check and Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea – level Rise).
Copyright: @ Published by Breakthrough – National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne, Australia, June 2017 – www.breakthroughonline.org.au
The first responsibility of a government is to safeguard the people and their future well-being. The ability to do this is threatened by climate change, whose accelerating impacts will also drive political instability and conflict, posing large negative consequences to human society which may never be undone. This report looks at climate change and conflict issues through the lens of sensible risk – management to draw new conclusions about the challenge we now face. Read more