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Our Climate Reality Leaders

​Our 2400+ local Climate Reality Leaders represent a diverse range of communities, sectors and skillsets across the Australia and Pacific region. They undertake frequent Acts of Leadership such as presenting to their peers and communities, and speaking to the media or at large scale public events. This page highlights a small handful of our active Climate Reality Leaders and their acts of leadership.
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Roy Tasker

23/2/2023

 
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Roy Tasker

Chemistry Professor

Climate reality activist (past Extinction Rebellion protestor)based on a solid scientific background (40y as university academic) now working with an environmental non-profit NGO (Planet Ark) and a community-led resilience action group (Resilient Blue Mountains). Interested and experienced in presenting and/or workshopping with schools, community/business groups, and politicians on climate and related sustainability issues.

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Michael Wheatland

22/2/2023

 
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Michael Wheatland

Sustainable Processing Manager

Michael Wheatland is an Internationally Chartered Engineer turned commercial manager who is passionate about sustainable outcomes through carbon reduction technology, improved processing, and clean energy projects.

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Joining Calix in 2012, Michael was instrumental with the concept and design of the unique carbon negative mineral technology core to the Calix Flash Calcination process, Michael has led commercialisation initiatives of this home-grown Australian technology that is now being exported around the world to reduce environmental impact and improve processing cost and efficiency. Michael is now responsible for the global rollout of the carbon neutral Calix Electric Flash Calciner technology across multiple mineral processing fields.

Blaise porter

22/2/2023

 
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Blaise Porter

Sustainability & CSR Director

Blaise is a leader in corporate sustainability and a passionate, pragmatic change agent. Her career in sustainability started as a ‘green team’ volunteer phasing out polystyrene cups in her office, and has included a 52 gigawatt hour renewable power purchase agreement (enough to power 9000 homes), four Reconciliation Action Plans, internal carbon pricing and more! She is currently the Group Director Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility at Sims Limited, the ASX-listed global leader in metal recycling and data centre circularity.

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Blaise lives in Sydney with her family and recently completed a Masters in Sustainability and Climate Policy from Curtin University.

Jim Thomas

22/2/2023

 
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Jim Thomas

Conservationist

I have been running the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for 20 years. TCA protects the Torricelli Mountain Range and works with the many villages that own the land and natural resources.

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The Tenkile and Weimang tree kangaroos, both critically endangered, are flagship species for TCA and the protection of the area, which is presently mapped at 143,000 hectares. Most of the Torricelli's are still primary forest, with much secondary forest surrounding.

Jo Oddie

22/2/2023

 
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Jo Oddie

Climate community leader / International development consultant

Jo is currently President of Climate Action Monaro, which covers the Snowy Monaro regional council area in SENSW and has about 60 members; a member of Farmers for Climate Action, a professional program evaluator (in international development and national programs) and a grandmother of 6 beautiful global citizens who’s futures she is keen to protect.

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Jo and her hardworking committee at Climate Action Monaro have been focusing on local, State and National government political campaigns, collaborating with other groups across SENSW to publish and disseminate regional scale climate facts (see Zerose.space for fact sheets) and promoting transition to renewable energy at household scale, particularly accelerating the transition to electric vehicles (see EV-ENT.NET.AU).

Joe Fulwood

6/2/2023

 
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Joe Fulwood

International Development Officer/ Climate Advocate

Joe grew up in regional Queensland, experiencing the effects of a harsher and dryer climate, but paradoxically also climate denialism and scepticism. He is interested in the communications challenges surrounding sustainability and building an inclusive and supportive movement for everyone.

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Working with Pacific Islanders, he is also passionate about issues concerning climate migration and building political structures to manage climate-induced displacement.

dr Murukesan Krishnapillai

27/1/2023

 
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Dr Murukesan Krishnapillai

Research Scientist at College of Micronesia - FSM

Murukesan Krishnapillai, PhD. is a Climate Scientist with the College of Micronesia-FSM Cooperative Research and Extension Program (USDA). His research and extension work is focused on climate change adaptation of displaced communities in small islands. He served as a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land and as a Contributing Author in IPCC AR6 Report.

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Glenn hoetker

27/1/2023

 
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Glenn Hoetker

Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainability and Business,
Melbourne Business School

I’ve helped companies respond to sustainability at the strategic level for over 15 years. I focus particularly on the role of innovation and strategic partnering in helping companies thrive through the sustainability transition.

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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.

Christina Wilson

27/1/2023

 
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Christina Wilson

Sustainability consultant and event manager

Christina has 20 years’ experience in project management in events, sports and sustainability. She has been the Head of Operations at Sports Environment Alliance, and is currently working on some national and international sporting events.

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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.

Prof Jacqueline Peel

24/1/2023

 
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Prof Jacqueline Peel

Professor and Director of Melbourne Climate Futures

Jackie is the Director of Melbourne Climate Futures and a Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is a leading, internationally-recognised expert in the field of environmental and climate change law and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. She has published widely in climate and environmental law, including leading monographs on Climate Litigation and Principles of International Environmental Law.

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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.

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