Climate Change Task Force

Paul Hardisty

CCTF Contributor

Professor Hardisty is Executive Director of Carbon EcoNomicsTM and Sustainability for Worley Parsons. EcoNomicsTM is a service which embeds profitable sustainability into all aspects of the project delivery life cycle. Paul has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field, focusing on large multi-disciplinary projects, especially in the resources and industrial sectors, and advising corporations and government on environmental and social sustainability. He has particular expertise in environmental strategy and decision making, and the financial and economic aspects of sustainability, climate change, water resources and waste management. Paul is the originator of the Economic Sustainability Assessment method, embodied in WorleyParsons’ EcoNomics Assessment process. He also recognized expert in the investigation and remediation of contaminated sites and groundwater, and the behaviour of organic chemical wastes in the natural environment. He is a visiting Professor in environmental engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia School of Business, where he teaches sustainability and climate change issues to MBA students, and a Member of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change in London. He is the author of over 100 publications, including a recent book on the economics of groundwater remediation and protection. His newest book “Environmental and Economic Sustainability for Industry” is shortly to be published by CRC Press in New York. Paul is also a Director of Green Cross Australia and a Member of the Waste Authority of Western Australia, directing advising the Minster for Environment.

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