Ross Garnaut is best known for his influential climate change review commissioned by the Australian government. The Garnaut Climate Change Review or Garnaut Report examines the effects that climate change will have on the Australian economy, along with recommendations for the government to take.

Garnaut was the first assistant secretary (Head of the Division of General Financial and Economic Policy) for the Papua New Guinea Department of Finance in 1975-76. He was then research director of the ASEAN Australia Economic Relations Research Project from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985 Ross Garnaut was a senior economic adviser to the Australian prime minister Bob Hawke. He was then the Australian ambassador to China from 1985 through to 1988. From 1998 to 2000 Garnaut was the Foundation Director at the Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Management.

Professor Ross Garnaut has written widely on the economy of China with publications that include "The Turning Point in China’s Economic Development" published in 2006, "The China Boom and its Discontents" published in 2005, "China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable?" published in 2004 and "Social Democracy in Australia's Asian Future" published in 2001.


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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have general support amongst scientists with relevant specialist expertise. The broad wisdom of the IPCC is strongly contested by a small number, and a small minority, of reputed climate scientists. It is not contested by the large majority of specialists, and by the leaders of the relevant learned academies in the countries of great scientific accomplishment.
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