The Climate Change and Environment theme of BHRIGHT illuminates the role that business plays in critical environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity and pollution, and the impacts this has on human rights.
It offers a lens on how climate change impacts the operation of business in Australia’s future ‘carbon constrained economy’; how environmental accountability is key to long term business success, particularly in terms of human rights issues.
We conduct research and provide commentary on specific fields of interest such as climate change risk, stakeholder engagement, building standards, transport and mobility, energy consumption, GHG emissions measurement and reporting. The Climate Change and Environment theme intersects with the work of other themes in BHRIGHT, for example in relation to climate refugees and migration, the gendered impact of climate change, and the varied effects of a warmer world on work in supply chains.
Researchers
Climate Change and Environment Researchers
Dr Saima Ahmad, Dr Carol Bond, Dr Serene Ho, Akshay Jadhav, Dr Vanessa Johnston, Dr Anne Kallies, Dr Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Professor Alan Lowe, Gabriella Belfrage-Maher, Associate Professor Laura Maran
Theme resources
- Ahmad, S., Islam, T., Sadiq, M. and Kaleem, A. (2021). Promoting green behavior through ethical leadership: a model of green human resource management and environmental knowledge, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 531-547.
- Bond, C.,Kelly, L. (2020). Returning land to country: Indigenous engagement in mined land closure and rehabilitation In: Australian Journal of Management, 46, 174 - 192
- Bond, C. (2018). Business and peace-building : the role of natural resources companies, Routledge, New York
- Gabriel, C.,Bond, C. (2019). Need, Entitlement and Desert: A Distributive Justice Framework for Consumption Degrowth In: Ecological Economics, 156, 327 – 336
- Godden, L and Kallies, A. (2021) ‘Governance of the Energy Market in Australia‘ in Martha Roggenkamp et al, Edward Elgar: 204-215
- Kallies, A (2021) 'The Australian Energy Transition as a Federalism Challenge: (Un)cooperative Energy Federalism?' 10(2) Transnational Environmental Law 211-235
- Kallies, A. (2021). ‘Regulating the Use of Energy Networks in Liberalized Markets: Third Party Access and Unbundling‘ in Martha Roggenkamp et al, Edward Elgar: 599-610
- Kumarasiri, J, & Lodhia, S (2020). The Australian carbon tax: corporate perceptions, responses, and motivations. Meditari Accountancy Research.28(3) 515-542
- Kumarasiri, J (2017) Stakeholder Pressure on Carbon Emissions: Strategies and the Use of Management Accounting, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 24, (4) 339-354.
- Kumarasiri, J & Gunasekarage, A (2017). Risk regulation, community pressure and the use of management accounting in managing climate change risk: Australian evidence, British Accounting Review, 49(1) 25-38
- Morrison, L & Lowe, A (2021), “Into the woods of corporate fairytales and environmental reporting” Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-03-2020-4466
- Morrison, L. (2020). Corporate Environmental Reporting: The Western Approach to Nature. New York, Routledge.
- Morrison, L Wilmshurst, T & Shimeld, S. (2018). "Environmental Reporting Through an Ethical Looking Glass." Journal of Business Ethics 150(4): 903-918
- Unger, C.,Everingham, J.,Bond, C. (2020). Transition or transformation: shifting priorities and stakeholders in Australian mined land rehabilitation and closure In: Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 27, 84 - 113
- Five top tips for promoting green behavior through ethical leadership, Saima Ahmad & Mohammad Nazim (Acumen: CoBL Expert Opinion and Analysis Blog)
- A great start, but still not enough: why Victoria’s new climate target isn’t as ambitious as it sounds, Anita Foerster, Alice Bleby & Anne Kallies (The Conversation)
- From back office to boardroom: accountants step up in climate risk management, Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Christine Jubb & Keith A Houghton (The Conversation)
- G7 Summit: compelling Australia to take urgent action on climate change, Leanne Morrison & Jayanthi Kumarasiri (BHRight Blog article)
- Big firms voice lack of faith in ‘cumbersome’ and ‘impractical’ Emissions Reduction Fund, Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Abeyratna Gunasekarage & Christine Jubb (The Conversation)
- Neo-liberal measures of life should not drive government response in a pandemic, Alan Lowe, Leanne Morrison & Maryam Safari (BHRight Blog article)
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