Mr Peter Cosier
BSc (UNE), DipURP (UNE)
Expertise
- Environmental policy
- Legislative and institutional reform
- Catchment management
- Land Use Planning
Background
- Director and Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
- Former Director, Ecofund Queensland
- Former Member, Queensland Premier's Climate Council
- Former Environmental Policy Adviser, Australian Environment Minister, Senator Robert Hill
- Former Deputy Director General, Science and Information, NSW Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources
- Governor, WWF Australia
- Former Member, Science and Information Board, NSW Department of Natural Resources
- Former Member, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Advisory Council
Publications & Speeches
Trials of Environmental Asset Condition Accounts in Australia - United Nations Statistics Division, New York, November 2012
Trials of Environmental Asset Condition Accounts in Australia - UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012
Regional Trials of Environmental Asset Condition Accounting in Australian - Peter Cosier and Carla Sbrocchi - Australian Bureau of Statistics Workshop: Completing the Picture - Environmental Accounting in Practice, Melbourne, May 2012
Regional Trials of Environmental Asset Condition Accounting in Australian SEEA - Peter Cosier and Carla Sbrocchi - SEEA Expert Meeting on Ecosystem Accounts, Melbourne, May 2012
The Science of Carbon in the Landscape - Carbon Farming week, Dubbo - 27-29 Sept 2011
A common currency for building environmental (ecosystem) accounts - London Group on Environmental Accounting, Chile, October 2010
Carbon and Landscape Conservation in Australia - 2010 National Landcare Forum, Adelaide, March 2010
Accounting for Nature - CSIRO, Environmental Monitoring Workshop 2009
Accounting for Nature - Fenner Conference on the Environment, Canberra, 2009
Sinclair Knight Merz - Ozwater Dinner, 2009
Water in a changing climate - Water Policy Summit, 2008
Accounting for Nature - ABS NatStats Conference 2008
The Science and Economics of Global Warming - Gilbert and Tobin seminar, 2007
The Economics of Climate Change - Victorian Association of Forest Industries
The Economics of Nature and Its Implications for the Australian Federation
An Operational Method to Assess Impacts of Land Clearing on Terrestrial Biodiversity
Impediments to Sustainable Water Use
Economics of Nature - Melbourne University March 08
Will climate change cost us the earth: an update on the science
Is Australia’s climate changing Australia?
Will climate change cost us the earth
It’s time to stop talking and start acting
Positive news on the environment
Key environmental issues in NSW
Australia’s journey: exploring, conquering, conserving and growing
Working together in an Australian landscape
Native vegetation reforms in NSW
The great greenhouse gamble: can governments handle the crisis?
Let the market set the water mark