• 2: About Us
• 3: Members
  • 3.1: Dr Neil Byron
  • 3.2: Mr Peter Cosier
  • 3.3: Prof Tim Flannery
  • 3.4: Dr Ronnie Harding
  • 3.5: Prof David Karoly
  • 3.6: Prof Hugh Possingham FAA
  • 3.7: Mr Robert Purves AM
  • 3.8: Dr Denis Saunders AM
  • 3.9: Prof Bruce Thom AM FIAG FTSE
  • 3.10: Dr John Williams
  • 3.11: Prof Mike Young FASSA
  • 3.12:
  • 3.13: FORMER MEMBERS
  • 3.14: Prof Peter Cullen AO FTSE
  • 3.15: Ms Leith Boully FAIC
  • 3.16: Prof David Lindenmayer FAA
• 4: Blueprints
  • 4.1: The Urgent Provision of Water
  • 4.2: Accounting for Nature
  • 4.3: Australia’s Climate is Changing Australia
  • 4.4: A New Model for Landscape Conservation in NSW
  • 4.5: Blueprint for a National Water Plan
  • 4.6: Blueprint for a Living Continent
  • 4.7: Optimising Carbon in the Australian Landscape
  • 4.8: Sustainable Diversions in the Murray-Darling Basin
• 5: Recent Papers
• 6: Science Program
• 7: Contact Us

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
• Director, Ecofund Queensland 
• Member, Queensland Premier's Climate Council
• Member, Terrestrial Carbon Group
• 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
• Director, Land Repair Australia
• Govenor, 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

Carbon and Landscape Conservation in Australia - 2010 National Landcare Forum, Adelaide, March 2010

The Planet is Capable of Managing Carbon, but are we? - Sydney Theatre Company, Wentworth Talks February 2010

Accounting for Nature - CSIRO, Environmental Monitoring Workshop 2009

Accounting for Nature - Fenner Conference on the Environment, Canberra, 2009

Leading a local response; Accounting for Nature - Local Government Association of Queensland, Annual Conference 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

Global Warming: Awareness, Implications and Strategic Choices - Municipal Association of Victoria, 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

The Economics of Nature

Will climate change cost us the earth: an update on the science

Climate Change: The Choice

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?

Use markets to repair rivers

Let the market set the water mark

Publication links

Silent Numbers