Oliver Howes
Oliver Howes was a writer-director at Film Australia and an independent producer, making documentaries and feature films. He has worked for the PNG government, in Japan and in Pacific states
Oliver's recent articles
6 January 2025
Building a new concrete revolution to net zero
No wonder the United Nations is worried. Making one ton of cement emits nearly one ton of carbon dioxide. With an area the size of Paris being built on every week globally, construction contributes heavily to climate change. In Australia, CO2 from building is tipped to double by 2050.
31 October 2021
Nature's right: a world with limits, to fossil fuels and population
The lessons of climate change are in the numbers, but the fundamental lesson is the most difficult one on our human numbers.
26 May 2021
Tracing the carbon loophole and other trade secrets that lead to unaccounted emissions
As rich countries develop they cast a shadow over their poorer trading partners. Australian research is exposing these hidden ecological and social costs. Around the world, unaccounted emissions in internationally traded goods and services are estimated at over a quarter of global CO2. This undermines the Kyoto Protocol and threatens the future of the Paris Agreement.
9 January 2021
Long after the Rio Earth Summit, a chance for sustainable Australia?
With climate change and biodiversity losses continuing, Australias Environmental-Economic Accounts channel fresh ideas on our stewardship of the land, testing our success or failure.
12 May 2020
OLIVER HOWES. Net-zero carbon, CSIRO and Big Australia
While net-zero carbon needs our nation-wide commitment, an older national ambition competes for primacy Big Australia. CSIRO reports have plans for our future, but cant please everyone.