Tahnee Burgess

Project Development Officer, Climate Change Communication Research Hub tahnee.burgess@monash.edu

Core expertise

Climate science

Biography

Tahnee Burgess brings diverse experience in climate science, extreme weather and environmental security to a breadth of projects at the Hub. She supports the incubation of projects, has conducted research into climate change communication in Australia, and has authored a number of the Hub’s reports.

articles

Australia’s Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Chris Bowen, addresses the COP27 conference.

What has Australia achieved at COP27?

In what is the first COP since Labor took office in May this year, there are positive signs of Australia picking up its game on climate policy.

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COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt world cloud

COP27: Rich nations fail to cough up for climate change

The pledge of the rich nations just before COP26 to provide $100 billion per year for the developing world to combat climate change is yet to be realised at COP27.

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A Pacific Islands beach with sandbags on the shore amid breaking waves.

Truth be told: Pacific Island countries lead the world in reporting on global warming

A survey has found that, unlike Australia where the issue is highly politicised, reporting on climate change in the Pacific was presented accurately and accessibly.

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