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Interview with Professor Penny D Sackett in the Air Quality and Climate Change Journal, Volume 44, No. 1

  • 10 March 2010

On February 1 2010, the Air Quality and Climate Change Journal published this interview with Professor Penny Sackett where she discusses her role as Chief Scientist for Australia, what got her first interested in science and the air quality around us.

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Chief Scientist discusses climate change with Virginia Trioli and Joe O’Brien on ABC News Breakfast.

  • 10 March 2010

3 December 2009 – Australia’s Chief Scientist discusses climate change on ABC News Breakfast

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Which plants store more carbon in Australia: forests or grasses?

  • 15 December 2009
Which plants store more carbon in Australia: forests or grasses?

Since carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas, one strategy that can partially combat global warming and climate change is to increase the amount of carbon stored in plants. Read on to find out whether forests or grasses are the better carbon store.

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Why we must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  • 07 December 2009
Why we must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Despite world attention, humans emit more greenhouse gases every year than they did the year before. It’s a situation that Australia needs to help turn around if we don’t want to bear the brunt of climate change, says Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett.

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Moving the world: Australia’s Chief Scientist discusses climate change ahead of Copenhagen

  • 03 December 2009

Chief Scientist for Australia, Professor Penny Sackett will today deliver a keynote address on climate change, titled Changing the World, at an event hosted by Australian Davos Connection in Melbourne.

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Moving the world – Science and leadership before and after Copenhagen

  • 03 December 2009

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett discusses climate change in an address titled, Moving the world, ahead of the Copenhagen Summit.

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Approaching 2010: Climate change, where do we stand?

  • 23 November 2009
Approaching 2010: Climate change, where do we stand?

As we prepare to enter a new decade, this report by the International Alliance of Research Universities presents the latest findings from some of the world’s leading climate change experts.

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Our future climate- living with fires now and into the future…

  • 26 August 2009

Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Penny D Sackett delivers the Third Australian Red Cross National Oration at the Australian National Univeristy.

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Australia’s Chief Scientist engages with key science advisers to President Obama

  • 07 May 2009

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett, has recently returned from the United States, where she engaged with key science advisers to President Obama.

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Science and parliament: engaging in a changing climate

  • 17 March 2009

The Chief Scientist for Australia, Professor Penny Sackett, discusses climate change in an address to the 2009 Science meets Parliament.

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