Climate Reality Leaders

Recent activities include teaching the MBA elective on Managing Sustainability for Strategic Advantage; training NAB bankers to support their customers’ low carbon transition plans; upskilling Bain’s 300 Australian consultants in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues; and publishing a paper on why green strategies lead to superior performance and when they don’t.

She consults organisations to identify opportunities to shift their community, event or business to a more sustainable future. She has developed community engagement programs with the view to drive change to create a more sustainable world.

Christina has a certificate in sustainability and behaviour change, a qualification with the UN System Staff College on “Circular Economy and the 2030 Agenda” and is part of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

Amongst many professional roles, Jackie has served as the Treasurer of the Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law, as a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Signature Initiative on Climate Change and as a Lead Author in Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She is on the editorial board of Transnational Environmental Law and is a co-founder of the Women’s Energy and Climate Law Network.

Jackie was a Fulbright and Hauser Scholar at NYU and has held visiting scholar positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. In 2022, she is directing the Centre for Studies and Research Program on Climate Change and International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law.

His research and writing focuses on actions needed to rapidly phase out fossil fuels and accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative safe climate future. His most recent book is Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis: Wisdom and Action in the Long Emergency Palgrave 2021.

She talks about putting ESG into engagement at the 2022 IAP2 Australasia Conference and is a contributing author to Facilitation with Stories: Ethics, Reflective Practice and Philosophies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Credentials include graduate of the Company Directors Course (GAICD) and the International Association of Public Participation (GIAP2), and is a Social Leadership alumnus and a professional management services provider to the NSW Government.

Up until his retirement in 2018, he was the Head Teacher of Career Pathways at Bankstown TAFE in southwest Sydney. Since then, he has focused his attention on climate change, and is currently the president of Climate Action Burwood/Canada Bay. He is also a mentor with the Climate Reality Project and a facilitator with Climate for Change.

In 2020 they became the first and only tour operator in the world with verified science-based emission reduction target. She is a regular guest speaker, conference panelist, mentor and in 2022 was recognized by Adweek as one of their 12 sustainability superstars