Rebecca is the CEO at Climate Resource. She has a background in economics and over 20 years of experience in policy, regulation and climate change. She is a Senior Advisor to Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne and was the Managing Director of the Energy Transition Hub in Australia until September 2020, also based at the University of Melbourne.
Before co-founding Climate Resource, Rebecca was a General Manager at the Climate Change Authority and a member of the expert committee advising the Australian government on rules for creating carbon credits from the land sector under the Carbon Farming Initiative. Prior to that, she was the Principal Economist at the Australian Communications and Media Authority, leading work on auction design for high-value radiofrequency spectrum. Rebecca has also worked at the New Zealand Treasury and as an economic consultant in Australia and the UK, delivering major projects in 10 countries. She has a Masters of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics.
As CEO, Rebecca contributes across Climate Resource's work areas, and plays a key role in supporting work on:
- NDC Quantification:
- Translation of NDCs and long-term targets into projected emissions.
- Evaluation of alignment of country targets with warming thresholds, such as 1.5°C.
- Decarbonisation Futures:
- Analysis of global sectoral transition pathways, and sub-sectoral and country-level pathways for major emitters, consistent with limiting warming to thresholds such as 1.5°C.
- Analysis of the declining demand for coal and gas under global action to limit warming, and the implications for fossil fuel exporters such as Australia.
- Regional Climate Impacts
- Application of Climate Resource's regional climate impact capacity to the evolving needs for better physical climate risk information infrastructure planning, including energy market resilience and performance, and reporting obligations.
