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We recognise the rapidly increasing urgency for society and business to address the global sustainability challenges of the efficient use of natural and human capital, loss of biodiversity, poverty and population growth.

GHD uses an integrated approach to deliver climate change services in the key areas of mitigation, adaptation, and trading and offsets. Our teams work with organisations to identify and understand the strategic risk and opportunity presented by climate change.

We understand the importance of taking early action and positioning organisations to manage and respond to climate change risks and impacts. Our people, made up of strategists and technical advisors, deliver comprehensive climate change, energy and greenhouse gas management services to enable efficient and sustainable business practices.

Services 

  • Consideration of emerging legislative framework
  • Investor-reporting
  • New market evaluation
  • Carbon solutions
  • Climate change impact analysis
  • Greenhouse gas emission measurement, reduction, verification and reporting
  • Implementation of energy efficiency, fuel switching and renewable energy
  • Risk management
  • Climate change consideration in design

For further information, contact:

Bruce Harper
T: +617 3316 3139
E Bruce Harper

Al Raha Beach

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The Al Raha Beach development is a beachfront project being built along the Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway, opposite Al Raha Gardens.

The USD$15 billion development sits on reclaimed land at Al Raha Beach, occupying an area of 6.8 million square metres, with a total built-up area of 12 million square metres. Developed by ALDAR, Al Raha Beach will be a new city district that will serve as the new gateway to Abu Dhabi City and accommodate 120,000 residents in an arrangement of high-rise towers and low-rise developments. It is being built in 11 residential and commercial precincts, each with its own distinct personality and appeal.

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Climate Change impacts study

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The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment engaged GHD to compare the effects of three different climate scenarios on River Red gum communities in northern Victoria.

The study focused on the likely changes to the frequency, duration, interval and extent of flooding of River Red Gum communities along the Murray.

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Australian Plantation Forestry Climate Change

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As part of the Australian Government’s Forest Industries Climate Change Research Fund program, GHD was engaged to examine how plantation fire risk profiles may change under climate change scenarios.

One of the key climate change risks for the plantation forest industry is increasing losses from fire, coupled with rising bushfire risk management costs.

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UK Rail Footprint Assessment

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Greenhouse gas (GHG) management is an essential part of any organisation’s sustainability and corporate responsibility agenda. GHD partnered with CenSA on railways greenhouse gas emissions measurement in the United Kingdom.

In December 2008, the United Kingdom (UK) made a upgraded its commitment to reduce its national carbon dioxide emissions, by at least 34 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050, in comparison to 1990 levels. In anticipation of tough regulatory and other policy drivers, the rail sector sought to better understand its contribution to the national GHG footprint and the ways in which this can be reduced.

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