Alan Pears
Alan Pears, AM, is one of Australias best-regarded sustainability experts. He is a senior industry fellow at RMIT University, advises a number of industry and community organisations, and works as a consultant. Alan writes a column in each issue of Renew magazine.
Recent articles by Alan Pears
16 November 2024
We are sending the wrong message by focusing on annual carbon emissions based on 100-year global warming potential
The climate crisis is much more severe than most people and politicians realise.
8 October 2022
Renewable energy is not enough - we must reduce consumption too
Alan Pears explains why we must stop ignoring energy efficiency gains instead of just focusing on switching to renewables. Is Australias focus on clean energy part of our economic and climate problems?
2 September 2022
Chinas challenges: a naive Australians perspective
I visited China a few times in the years before Covid. In Hainan, I rode my bike past streets of empty high rise apartment buildings. In Tianjin I visited a near empty new financial district. Locals I spoke to talked about the ghost cities of empty buildings. I observed conflicting rules for different parts of the economy.