Professor Tom Kompas

Professor Tom Kompas

Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity, School of Biosciences and School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

An ounce of biosecurity prevention is worth two pounds of cure

Australia will avoid $A314 billion in damages, at an average return on investment of 30:1 through the continued operation of its biosecurity systems, new research shows

Sciences & Technology

The costs and benefits of a clean economy

As the cost of renewable energy falls, Australia’s transition to clean energy makes sound economic as well as environmental sense

Environment

The great (climate) depression

New economic modelling shows a US$23 trillion loss in global GDP, with the economies of many countries collapsing, if we allow global temperatures to rise by 4 degrees by 2100