Sustainability and climate change challenges

Securing trade against climate change
RMIT University is helping to secure Australian trade by supporting port authorities in the development of robust climate change adaptation strategies.
14/09/2012

Power punt
For Professor Gary Rosengarten, sustainable energy is a passion. So it's not surprising that the Melbourne researcher is at the forefront of solar energy research in Australia.
13/09/2012

Reconnecting with customer demand
Evolving attitudes are changing the way residential customers use electricity - driving concentrated consumption bursts and contributing to rising infrastructure costs.
13/09/2012

Research bid to improve methane measurement
Researchers at RMIT University are part of a team receiving $840,000 from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to develop selective membranes designed to improve methane gas measurement processes.
20/06/2012

Working towards a climate risk toolkit
RMIT University has hosted a collaborative workshop in Vietnam as part of a project to develop a climate change risk assessment toolkit for secondary cities in the developing world.
18/06/2012

GPS technology improves weather forecasting
The satellite-based global positioning system technology that guides modern in-car navigation systems is now being used to improve weather forecasts.
14/06/2012

Towards a cleaner, greener Antarctic
RMIT University is collaborating with the University of Otago on research to reduce the environmental impact of an Antarctic base, in a world-first project that could be replicated across the continent.
13/03/2012

World experts talk industrial electronics
More than 800 of the world's experts in industrial electronics participated in the 37th annual conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2011) in Melbourne recently.
08/12/2011

Future Aussie trucking: silent and green
RMIT University researchers have developed Australia's first hydrogen fuel cell truck, demonstrating how vehicle design and new sustainable technologies can make freight transport clean, green and silent.
21/11/2011

Islands to treasure
Taihu three treasures consist of silver-fish, white shrimps and crabs. These delicacies are plentiful in China's third-largest freshwater lake, Taihu.
07/11/2011

Research focus areas

Sustainability and climate change challenges is one of RMIT's five research focus areas. Other focus areas are:

Research publications

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