Goal 13 - Climate Action

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.

The aim of this project is to direct food choices to more plant-rich dishes on Griffith University Campuses, thereby reducing the environmental footprint of food outlets. The goals are two-fold: making climate-friendlier dishes more visible/available and shifting behaviours so that more customers pick those options. The program uses pre-and-post consumer…

This PhD research “Growing Living Islands- an Architectural toolbox” is exploring methods for developing symbiotic islands that adapt to the environment, living organisms and people’s needs. The research combines artificial island construction, artificial reef construction and environmental assessment to develop conceptual methods for constructing islands based on the environment first…

EcoSummit 2023 is a forum for scientists, policy-makers and practitioners to take a cross disciplinary approach focused on climate adaptation and the development of environmental and socio-economic resilience and, sustainable global prosperity. All areas of engineering, science, environmental modelling and policy will be considered in this work. An additional focus…

This is a practice-led research collaboration between CARI researchers and Vulcana Women’s Circus, a physical theatre community arts organisation. In association with Drs Samid Suliman and Kaya Barry (HLSS/GCSCR) Climate Scape unites performance researchers with social scientist/scholars and professional circus artists to explore how physical theatre and circus methods can…

The global demand for environmental engineers has risen significantly and is projected to continue as governments worldwide face increasing pressure to implement economic development programs that address pollution control and elimination, resource conservation and recovery, and achieving the SDGs. Environmental engineering the pathway to protecting the natural environment and its…

An international collaboration to collate and analyse all available ocean wave climate projections to quantify projected changes and asscoaited levels of uncertainty…

This project was designed to explore and assess the extent to which China’s diplomatic effort, development activity and economic investment towards Pacific island nations supports Pacific interests, with a specific focus on the collective Pacific ambition for global action on climate change. There is no question that China has…

2022 is Griffith University’s inaugural year joining thirteen other universities and a growing number of organisations across Australia and New Zealand participating in Green Impact. Green Impact was developed by the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK, where it has run for over 14years and reached more…

Aviation Reimagined is an annual webinar series featuring industry leaders, policymakers and researchers sharing their insights about a transition to a low-carbon future for aviation. This is the third consecutive year running this successful series, with new speakers and contributors delivering innovative insights from around the world. The webinar series…