Cimate Action – Sustainable Development Goals

Australia-Mekong Water Facility – Technical support to improve reservoir water quality management in Thailand

Thailand faces challenges with managing water quality in many of its reservoirs due to pressure from agricultural, domestic, and industrial pollution coupled with urbanization, increasing demand and climate change. The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) joined Australian experts to gain knowledge and strategies to monitor, prevent and decrease water quality impacts.

Australia Awards Short Course Aus4ASEAN Green Skills in TVET

13 - Climate Action

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…

Australian Repair Summit

12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

The Australian Repair Summit is an annual national Summit that brings together a wide range of stakeholders interested in or working in the repair sector, who genuinely want to engage in open and respectful dialogue; with industry, other sectors and the community at large about the legislative and policy changes…

What is stopping us? Identifying barriers preventing restaurants from offering plant-based meat dishes

13 - Climate Action

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.

Global Prioritization of Mangrove Conservation and Restoration incorporating future Climate Change Impacts

14 - Life Below Water

The project was commissioned by WWF to help prioritise funds and activities for improving mangrove management and restoration globally.

Wetlands for improving water quality of the Great Barrier Reef

14 - Life Below Water

This project was established as there was no data showing that wetlands were crucial for improving the water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.

Assessing the impacts of drought and water extraction on groundwater resources in Australia

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

This project aims to develop a novel framework that uses big data from satellites to assess the impacts of droughts and water extraction on groundwater resources in Australia, currently poorly understood and difficult to monitor. This project expects to generate new insights into the mechanisms driving changes in groundwater availability…

Mid Brisbane River Microbial Model Update

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The purpose for this project is to update the existing hydrodynamic-microbial models for the Mid-Brisbane River with the latest three-year data from 2020 to 2022. These three years are particularly wet than other years and represent an opportunity to better understand the microbial conditions in the river system during a…

Containers for Change

12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Late in 2022, Griffith University launched a new Containers for Change collection program across its Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Each bottle donated through the Containers for Change collection bins will raise funds for Griffith’s Brighter Futures Scholarship Program.

Australia Awards Short Course Renewable Energy (Indonesia)

7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

The Australia Awards Renewable Energy Short Course aimed to contribute to the shared ambition of Australia and Indonesia to cooperate more closely to enable transition to lower emission economies and understands that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge. Twenty-five participants from across Indonesia joined course leaders Associate Professor…