Climate change could haunt humanity forever: Garnaut : thewest.com.au
Failure to deal with climate change now will “haunt humanity” forever, the nation’s top greenhouse adviser has warned as he issued a rallying cry for action.Who is Ross Garnaut? | newmatilda.com
Professor Ross Garnaut has warmed to the idea of a deep, fast cut to Australia’s emissions in his final report, released today.
After infuriating green groups earlier this month by calling for a 10 per cent cut in Australia's emissions by 2020, he’s now more open to a deeper 25 per cent cut.
Prof Garnaut issued a blunt assessment of the dangers of climate change as he launched the 620-page report.
“If we fail, on a balance of probabilities, the failure of our generation will haunt humanity until the end of time,” he told reporters in Canberra.
But just who is Ross Garnaut, and how did he get to have the PM's ear on this most important of issues?
Garnaut's glittering career spans nearly all dimensions of Australia's elite, from economics and business to diplomacy and high-level government policy making. Currently Professor of Economics at ANU, he sits on the board of nearly a dozen different companies, organisations and academic journals and is Chairman of four of them - including Lihir Gold Limited, a gold mine in PNG whose environmental record is, as we shall see, far from spotless.
Garnaut has always been a high-achiever. Graduating as School Captain of Perth Modern School, he studied economics at ANU, where he completed his PhD on liberalising Australian trade with South East Asia in 1972.
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