Dr Melanie Pill

Research highlights

• Pill, M., Towards a funding mechanism for loss and damage from climate change impacts, Climate Risk Management
• Pakistan floods: will rich nations ever pay for climate loss and damage?, The Conversation, 8 September.

Dr Pill is also part of a project developing a framework for DFAT for the Champions Group on Adaptation Finance. The project has international significance under the UNFCCC.

Outreach

• Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction: presentation of above DFAT project in a public forum as part of ANU’s stall presence.
• Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment Report: Author conference in New Zealand, organised by the University of Canterbury and NZ Government.

Media

• Debt cancellation: no quick fix to climate funding crunch, 360 Info, 2 November. 
• Climate change minister Chris Bowen vows crackdown on Australia's biggest emitters before COP27, The Canberra Times, 3 November.
• To save Australia’s precious environment we must do these five things, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July. 
• Who Pays the Bill for the Climate Crisis, Think Sustainability Podcast, 11 November. 

Associate Professor Ben Edwards

Research highlights

Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker: Australian Subnational dataset

• Led by Associate Professor Ben Edwards, the Australian Subnational project focusses on extending the work of he Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) was designed by Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government to track and compare policy responses around the world, but in this case the ANU team have developed a dataset with daily data on state and territory policy responses from 2020 to 2022. Data is publicly available via GitHub and the Australian Data Archives and has been used by Federal Department of Health and Aging. Read more.