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    • 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

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    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

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    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

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