Professor Mark Howden is the Director of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions.

Professor Howden is also an Honorary Professor at Melbourne University, a Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Chair of the ACT Climate Change Council and contributes to several major national and international science and policy advisory bodies.

His core expertise is on climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation for systems we value: agriculture and food security, the natural resource base, ecosystems and biodiversity, energy, water and urban systems. He helped develop the national and international greenhouse gas inventories that are a fundamental part of the Paris Agreement and pioneered sustainable ways to reduce emissions.

Professor Howden has partnered with many industry, community and policy groups via both research and science-policy roles and is a high profile public communicator. He has been a major contributor to the IPCC since 1991, with a record number of roles across all four dimensions of the IPCC: climate science, impacts and adaptation, mitigation and GHG inventories. He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC contributors and Al Gore.


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Australian climate action is heading the right way, just not fast enough

Despite the world not being on track to keep temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius, there are major…


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In the future, we could snuff out cyclones. But weather control comes with new risks

Right now, people in coastal China are fleeing successive typhoons. Parts of the Philippines are awash. Typhoons are intense circular…


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Pacific Islands are holding the front line of climate change, but this is a global fight

This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report, bringing together seven years of…


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‘It can be done. It must be done’: IPCC delivers definitive report on climate change, and where to now

The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the…


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Climate change worsening, but we have the means to act

Climate change impacts are larger, more rapid and worse than previous estimates, but humanity has the means to…


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Australia has a critical role in tackling climate change

The world has every chance to cut emissions deeply and Australia is critical to the global effort, say…


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Adaptation key to protect vulnerable from climate change

Climate change is affecting every region in the world, almost every sector, and people in both urban and…


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Australia’s low targets high on COP26 agenda

The world will expect Australia to “ratchet up” its emissions reduction target during the United Nation’s climate change…


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Global temperatures likely to rise in next decade

The world may warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius by the early 2030s, a climate change expert from The…


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ANU zeroes in on negative carbon emissions by 2030

The Australian National University (ANU) is the one of the first universities in Australia and the world to commit to…


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