Goal 13 - Climate Action

ALTERED TIDES: CREATIVE COASTAL RECREATION IN A CLIMATE CHANGED FUTRE In partnership with SWELL Sculpture Festival and GECKO, Griffith University’s Climate Action Beacon is hosts the Altered Tides: Creative coastal recreation in a climate changed future event series. These events bring Indigenous knowledge, climate and coastal sciences, beach cultures and the arts…

In 2024, Griffith University hosted the 2024 Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef Symposium over three days 11-13th September. This symposium brought together a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. It highlighted diverse stories of the Reef and its peoples, unpicked moral dilemmas around decision-making in an uncertain…

The Australia Awards Short Course Aus4ASEAN Skills Forecasting for the Fourth Industrial Revolution was delivered under the Australian Governments Digital Transformation and Future Skills initiative, as part of a package aimed at supporting Australia’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the Association of South Asian Nations (ASEAN). The course was delivered to…

Reducing emissions from restaurants is imperative to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Offering plant-based meats can reduce emissions from restaurants. This research identifies barriers preventing restaurants from offering plant-based meat dishes and segments restaurants based on identified barriers.

Climate Ready Australia 2030 (CRA2030) brings together partners from across society to drive climate action in Australia. We have assembled a growing alliance of peak bodies that we work with to identify common priorities for their sectors and members. These priorities have underpinned the development of a robust…

Griffith’s Office of the General Counsel have engaged CRI to facilitate and provide support for a University climate risk baseline assessment, to help inform their annual risk report. CRI has applied learnings from the QCR Program and has adjusted content, tools, and materials for a University content. The Climate Compass…

CRI are developing a micro-credential that addresses climate risk management and will help build national climate literacy, capability, and capacity at individual and organisational level. It will provide foundational knowledge and build staff capability around climate risk management; including interpreting the science and impacts of climate change, identify and…

Our research investigates how to improve climate change adaptation responses with a particular focus on the transitioning and repurposing of properties (otherwise known as managed retreat or planned retreat). We address three main research questions: 1. What are the key factors that determine the success or failure of transitioning…

The Climate Change Adaptation programs are designed to give professionals from any background a sound interdisciplinary knowledge of climate change, the ability to analyse its impacts, and the creative skills needed to build resilience across society and the environment. This includes the ability to develop and deploy adaptation strategies to…

This course offers students the opportunity to develop an understanding of how policymaking and planning can used to develop effective responses to the problem of climate change. A cross-section of adaptation and mitigation policies and plans are analysed, from the international to the national, state and local levels of government.