ISA in the Media - Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA)

ISA research has been in the media for more than 20 years:

12 November 2025, ISA’s Associate Professor Arunima Malik joined Professor Manfred Lenzen in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, as one of 25 University of Sydney academics recognised in this year’s annual report. The list recognises researchers of multiple highly cited papers in the top 1% of citations for their field and publication year in the Web of Science Core Collection in the past 11 years; the list is then refined using other quantitative metrics as well as qualitative analysis.
18 June 2025, the Frontiers Planet Prize has awarded Associate Professor Arunima Malik US$1 million (AU$1.54 million) – believed to be the largest individual monetary prize received by an academic at the University of Sydney. A/Prof Malik of ISA is one of three 2025 international Champions to win the award. Publicity included in FOX5, ABC4, World Economic Forum, Science, and the Australian Academy of Science, which nominated A/Prof Malik as Australia’s national champion. In her winning paper in Nature Sustainability, A/Prof Malik and her team analyse global supply chains over the past three decades.
23 April 2025, Frontiers Planet Prize has named ISA member Associate Professor Arunima Malik as Australia’s National Champion for the paper she lead-authored in Nature Sustainability: Polarizing and equalizing trends in international trade and Sustainable Development Goals. She is one of three researchers nominated by the Australian Academy of Science for the prize, the Academy reported. Global winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Villars, Switzerland on 17 June.
29 March 2025, A group of scientists from Europe and Australia, including Professor Manfred Lenzen and Dr Mengyu Li of ISA, published a Perspective piece about geopolitical conflict impeding climate action, in the Nature-group journal, npj Climate Action. Professor Lenzen was interviewed by Radio Ecoshock, a science-based program broadcast in the US., UK, Canada, and Australia. In addition to an in-depth blog, an audio of the discussion can be directly streamed online.
10 December 2024, Researchers including Professor Manfred Lenzen of ISA co-authored a paper in Nature Communications that found greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than twice as fast as emissions from the rest of the global economy. International coverage included in The Economist, Le Monde, Geo France, La Repubblica, Fede e Ragioni, Good Morning America, Yahoo News, ABC Australia, SBS Australia (Greek) ABC USA, Xinhyua, EveningReport.NZ, elDiario.es, Público, r/science (Reddit), Der Standard, Süddeutschen Zeitung, bild der wissenschaft, China.org.cn, Deccan Herald, Business Herald, The Federal, Devdiscourse, Indian Express, Swissinfo.ch, Swisscom, Rede Be News, THMais, Folha de S.Paulo, Infobae, EFEverde, EcoEvant.com, La Vanguardia, Cadena Agramonte, Trouw, nplus1.ru, The Brussels Times, Ziarul Bursa, The Conversation, Science Daily and Cosmos.
29 November 2024, Dr Mengyu Li was one of two academics awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award, Early Career Researchers of the Year category, the University of Sydney announced. Days earlier, it was announced that Dr Li was one of five researchers in Australia and New Zealand to gain a L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowship Award, with Dr Li interviewed by 9Honey. The Fellowship success, recognising the research into global consumption patterns and degrowth, was reported by Funds Digest, Labonline.com.au, The Wellness Insider, Women Love Tech, Retail Beauty, Women’s Agenda and was detailed in the Guardian (paid content).
19 November 2024, Professor Manfred Lenzen was again recognised in Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list. The University of Sydney reported that Clarivate named 26 of its academics on the list, which recognises researchers in the top one percent of citations for their field in the past year in the Web of Science.
5 September 2024, analysis of the environmental impact of two common heart procedures by ISA members, working with the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI), shows it is possible to make changes within cardiac care, without compromising on quality of healthcare. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald and republished in People’s Daily, quoted lead author Dr Fabian Sack, and Chief Investigators, Prof Dany Celermajer, of SEI, and Prof David Celermajer, Central Clinical School, along with review comments from Associate Professor Arunima Malik.
4 September 2024, ISA member Dr Mengyu Li was recognised as an Outstanding Early Career Researcher by the Oscars of Australian science, the Eureka Prizes, along with three other academics from the University of Sydney. A video about her research is here; publicity also included in The Zero Planet, myScience,Tasmanian Times and Health Services Daily.
31 January 2024, Research led by ISA that costed the economic impact from the tourism shutdown of the unprecedented 2019-20 bushfires in Australia received widespread publicity. Lead author, PhD student Vivienne Reiner, was interviewed by ABC, 2GB and 4BL radio stations as well as by Channel News Asia. Press coverage included the Guardian newspaper, which quoted Ms Reiner and co-author Professor Manfred Lenzen. Coverage included on the UNDRR publication portal PreventionWeb.
9 January 2024, Professor Manfred Lenzen of ISA was quoted in the New Jersey newspaper nj.com about a paper he co-authored in Environmental Letters Research. The research used a novel dataset to frame a “restorative” pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
15 December 2022, Minderoo Foundation and AirTree ventures have backed FairSupply’s capital raising, the Australian Financial Review reported today. FairSupply is co-founded by Associate Professor Arne Geschke, of ISA, who compiled the National Accounts of statistical agencies worldwide as part of his PhD supervised by Professor Manfred Lenzen.
30 November 2022, ISA leader Professor Manfred Lenzen has received the 2022 University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research, with Professor David Raubenheimer from the Charles Perkins Centre. The pair, along with ISA colleagues Dr Arunima Malik, Dr Mengyu Li and PhD candidate Navoda Liyana Pathirana, recently received a Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, as reported in The Conversation among other media.
28 November 2022, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s Task Force on Green Recovery, whose members include Professor Manfred Lenzen and Dr Arunima Malik from ISA, has delivered its final report. The Task Force, which delivered its Final Statement supported by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, said the coronavirus had made it difficult for governments to meet their Paris Agreement commitments but recovery packages offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ‘build back better’.
19 August 2022, Multidisciplinary research in Nature Food lead-authored by ISA’s Dr Arunima Malik and including the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment has found the impacts of climate change on food supply chains include nutritional security, with rural communities the most affected. Reports included Singapore’s Strait Times, IndiaEducationDiary.com, Earth.com, Cosmos and Food & Beverage Industry News.
20 June 2022, A paper led by ISA’s Dr Mengyu Li about food miles made the cover of Nature Food. The research, which found the carbon footprint of food miles is up to 7.5 times bigger than previously estimated – when taking into account the entire supply chain – was reported widely, including in the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, Nature News, Fortune, Newsweek, Bloomberg, New Scientist, The Guardian, Yahoo.com, SBSHindi and via Australian Associated Press (AAP).
5 April 2022, The IPCC 6th Assessment Report Working Group III released its findings on mitigation, with one of the lead authors, ISA’s Dr Arunima Malik, interviewed by The Mandarin, co-authoring an explainer in The Conversation and replublished in Mumbai News.net, All Africa, Yahoo News, Silicon Republic, News Next, 1 Million Women, Udayavani, In Daily and Interest.co.uk. Former ISA member and lead author Prof Tommy Wiedmann from UNSW Sydney, who was also a co-author, was interviewed on ABC TV news.
10 December 2021, Detailed today in Nature Sustainability is the United Nations Environment Programme pilot for nations to quantify their footprints against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, initially for SDGs 8 and 12 related to material- and carbon footprints, led by Prof Manfred Lenzen of ISA. In addition to Vienna University and the UNEP, collaborating organisations for the tool include CSIRO and UNSW, with data via the Global MRIO Lab developed by the University of Sydney as an Australian Government NeCTAR project. Media included Xinhua, United News of India (UNI), Focus Risparmio, Mining.com, Infrabuddy.com, AIRCARGO Asia-Pacific, Manufacturers’ Monthly, PACE, InnovationAus, OpenForum, and OpenGov Asia.
3 November 2021, During COP26, research led by Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies and ISA published, which showed air pollution resulting from lifestyles in G20 nations kills 2 million people each year. Media quoting former visiting professor with ISA Keisuke Nansai included Washington Post, New Scientist, Nature Asia, South China Morning Post and ZME Science. Senior author Prof Manfred Lenzen was quoted extensively in the Australian report by ABC News.
5 August 2021, An article in Cosmos, which was widely syndicated, reported on a Comment in Nature Energy calling for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios. Prof Manfred Lenzen of ISA was a co-author of the piece lead-authored by Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics.
12 May 2021, Renew Economy and The New Republic report on modelling of 1.5 °C degrowth scenarios, in Nature Communications, by senior author Prof Manfred Lenzen and Mr Lorenz Keyßer for ISA. An opinion piece in the New York Times later refers to the findings.
10 July 2020, Just months after the COVID-19 first wave, an international team of researchers led by ISA published the first socio-economic and environmental footprint of the pandemic. Reports included Fox News, Bloomberg and The Guardian p. 1.
25 June 2020, In the spirit of the popular ‘Scientists Warning’ articles, Prof Thomas Wiedmann formerly of ISA along with ISA’s Prof Manfred Lenzen, Julia Steinberger of University of Leeds and her Master’s student Lorenz Keyßer publish a “Scientists warning on affluence”. The Guardian’s First Dog on the Moon cartoon features the research, which is also covered by World Economic Forum.
24 April 2020, In time for World Malaria Day, SCI reports on ISA’s collaborative work with epidemiologists from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, on the connection between affluent consumer demand and malaria. The work is also mentioned in an interview with Prof Sallum from Sao Paulo, published by ensia.
15 April 2020, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Prof Shweta Singh and her team from Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering publish a report entitled “Analysis: Wind energy expansion would have $27 billion economic impact”. The research used the US Industrial Ecology Laboratory, a cloud-based, multi-disciplinary collaborative research platform modelled on the Australian Industrial Ecology Lab.
28-29 August 2019, Jakarta, Launch of the Australia-Indonesia Virtual Lab, or “IndoLab”, a multi-disciplinary collaborative research platform modelled on the Australian Industrial Ecology Lab. The IndoLab Launch attracted many high-profile keynote speakers, such as Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati - Minister of Finance of Indonesia, Prof. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – Executive Secretary of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pasific (UN-ESCAP), Khanh Hoang - Director of National Accounts Benchmarks Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Setianto – Director of Production Balance Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Janet Salem - Director of Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption and Production, UNEP Asia & the Pacific, and Prof. Arnold Tukker - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Leiden University, Netherlands (see photos and videos). The IndoLab has received grant funding from the Australia-Indonesia-Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
11 December 2018, ISA’s study on the carbon footprint of global tourism published in Nature Climate Change is ranked 56th in Altmetric’s most-mentioned 100 articles for 2018. Altmetric has tracked over 25 million mentions of 2.8 million research outputs to reveal which have truly captured the public imagination.
30 November 2018, ISA’s Manfred Lenzen named, for the fourth time in a row, amongst twelve Sydney University Researchers in the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List.
24 September 2018, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases its 2018 Network Report, featuring (p.13) ISA’s collaborative research with SDSN Regional Director Dr Jorge Gomez-Paredes.
13 September 2018, The Washington Post reports that new research based on ISA’s Eora database reveals a carbon loophole and shows why closing it is increasingly urgent. The article states that “What the climate negotiators of the 1990s did not know at the time was that a parallel and simultaneous set of global trade agreements would create a glaring loophole in their efforts to contain the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change”. In many cases, countries that have claimed net reductions in carbon emissions see those reductions fully – or mostly – wiped out once the carbon loophole is taken into account. About 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions passed through this glaring “carbon loophole”, one of the most critical and under-discussed problems in international climate policy circles.
16 July 2018, ISA’s review of the international trade footprint on people and the planet features on Adam Spencer’s Big Questions podcast “Can you measure the social footprint of trade?” - please listen and enjoy !
7 May 2018, ISA led research, in collaboration with the University of Queensland and National Cheng Kung University, was published in Nature Climate Change. This study provides a world-first quantification of the carbon footprint of global tourism. The findings suggest that global tourism is responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The research was widely cited in the press, eg. The Conversation, BBC News, New Scientist, Cosmos Magazine, AAP, Reuters, Libération, Nouvel Obs, The Independent , Los Angeles Times, Mongabay, The Telegraph, Mirror, CNN, US News, T-Online, El Mundo, Quartz, O Globo, Sputnik International, Motherboard, El Confidencial, UOL, Science Daily, El Periódico, Yahoo, Cadena SER, Publico, Europa Press, SVT NYHETER, Spektrum, El Comercio, Tech Times, The Border Mail, The West Australian, Perth Now, The Earth, Ecowatch, Science News, Pacific Standard, NatureAsia, The Week, Carbon Brief, Mashable, Press24.net, ad-hoc-news, Onews.net, Infranken, nrz, Münsterlandzeitung, Wzonline, Inhabitat, EpsomGuardian, Elpais, Vozpopuli, Efeverde, Observatório do Clima, EL Espectador, Calcolovotodilaurea, Stol.it, Libero, Wired, Le Scienze, Rinnovabili, Press Reader, Krone, Orf, OÖNachrichten, Der Standard, ntv, Scinexx, Klamm, Epochtimes, MOZ, WirtschaftsWoche, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stern, DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Zeit, Welt, TaiwanNews, ScienceNet.cn, World Huanqiu, Zeit Online, Deutschlandfunk: radio interview, Xinhuanet, Business Standard, Emol, Traveller, The Hindu, Smithsonianmag, Euronews, IDEAL, Berliner Morgenpost, Fox News, RT, Folha De S. Paulo , Mother Nature Network, CityLab, CBS News, Yahoo Taiwan, Channel NewsAsia, EuroZpravy , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, radio interviews with BBC radio, BBC 5 live programme Up All Night, 2SM Sydney. Press releases: The University of Sydney, University of Queensland.
30 April 2018, ISA’s review of the international trade footprint on people and the planet shows that about a third of the impact is displaced from rich to poorer nations. The new findings are discussed by Germany’s Deutschlandfunk.
19 April 2018, IT News reports on ISA’s DFAT grant to promote the Australia-Indonesia Virtual Lab developed by Futu Faturay and Manfred Lenzen at the University of Sydney, in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Finance. The virtual lab will be a collaborative online environment in which Indonesian and Australian researchers and analysts can share their data, tools and insights on sustainable development issues of interest to both countries.
17 January 2018, Motufoua Secondary School in Tuvalu has won the tenth annual Zayed Future Energy Prize Global High Schools Award for Oceania in Abu Dhabi, for its programme involving the use of renewable energy, rainwater collection and re-use, waste recycling and sustainable food production. The high school’s award-winning submission involved an innovative scheme that included using solar power and biogas in the school’s kitchen. The biogas is produced at the school’s piggery that is cleaned by rainwater which is also used for a vegetable garden. The High School team was mentored by a former Sustainable Islands Program participant, Sulufaiga Uota, who drew on her experiences with biogas generation from a pig farm on Norfolk Island.
16 November 2017, ISA’s Manfred Lenzen named for the third time, amongst seven Sydney University Researchers, in the 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List.
24 October 2017, ISA’s Eora MRIO database is used for modelling the effects of poverty eradication in a carbon constrained world .
31 July 2017, a joint collaboration between the United Nations SDSN Andes Secretariat, ISA University of Sydney and Yachay Tech University results in a report on the Influence of Economic Structures on the Sustainable Development Goals – effects from, to and within the Andean region .
31 July 2017, ISA’s research on biodiversity and nitrogen footprints features in the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network report on Global Responsibilities – International spillovers in achieving the goals .
31 July 2017, ISA’s Eora MRIO database was selected for the International Monetary Fund’s for their calculation of Trade in Value Added. In this report, the IMF writes that “Overall, the scatterplots presented reassure us that Eora and OECD-WTO TiVA statistics are generally consistent with one another. Given this, we can feel somewhat more comfortable using Eora for countries for which the OECD-WTO data are not available. […] The global Eora MRIO tables offer a rich unified cross-country dataset which can be used to calculate trade in value-added statistics for almost all countries starting in 1990“.
24 June 2017, ISA’s data and research are used for the ABC’s compass 6pm Ethically Challenged show.
9 March 2017, ISA’s Eora MRIO database is used by the International Monetary Fund for their analysis of Revisiting the Link between Trade, Growth and Inequality : Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean.
22 September 2016, ISA’s Manfred Lenzen named amongst six Sydney University Researchers in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2016 report.
20 July 2016, CSIRO, Vienna University, Institute of Social Ecology, ifeu Heidelberg, Nagoya University and ISA launch their UNEP report on Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity at the High Level Policy Forum and press conference in New York. The report and the summary for policy makers are now available online.
26 January 2016, ISA publishes results of ARC-funded research in Nature Geoscience. The findings suggest that substantial nitrogen pollution is embedded in international trade. Interestingly, four countries are responsible for almost half the world’s emissions. ISA’s findings are widely reported in the press, eg The Guardian, BBC World Service, New Vision, Carbon Brief, The Economic Times , 3 News, Market Business News, The Times of India, web India 123, E&T Magazine, Dispatch Tribunal, Pacific Standard, Scicasts, Laboratory Equipment, Wn.com, EurekAlert, The Marshalltown, Science World Report, estrella digital, Prensa Latina, El Diario Montanes, Tendencias21, Catch News, Science Daily, La Repubblica, CIRE, PHYS ORG, Science 2.0, Yahoo News, QUO, ECOticias, Earth Island Journal, The Economic Times, ABC News 24, ABC Radio National, and a Nature Geoscience News and Views commentary. Press releases: Nature Geoscience, University of Sydney, Yokohama National University.
21 January 2016, ISA’s Manfred Lenzen named amongst six Sydney University Researchers in Thomson Reuters’ World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 report.
25 August 2015, Deloitte publishes the report ”Consumption-based emissions analysis – a different way of looking at emissions”. This is the second report in Deloitte Access Economics’ Carbon Analytics series supported by Origin Energy, which aims to provide new insights and foster informed debate on current issues affecting carbon emissions from the energy sector in Australia. The report uses ISA’s Eora MRIO database.
13 November 2014, ISA’s Honorary Fellow Barney Foran, through Charles Sturt University and in collaboration with KGM & Associates, has released a new top-level report on the G20’s global impact, using the Eora MRIO database. This resource details the ‘blood pressure’ indicators of the world’s top twenty economies, the G20. Twenty brief reports based on consumption accounting methods present the critical economic, social and environmental measures that underpin how each country works. Behind it is a database that brings together the economic, employment and physical structures of 187 countries. Globalised trade is fully reconciled through the analysis of more than five billion global value chains (GVCs) that operate within domestic economies and throughout the world trade routes.
7 October 2014, Lesley Hughes from the Climate Council and Manfred Lenzen talk about the biodiversity crisis at Sydney Ideas.
18 August 2014, CSIRO’s ECOS Magazine carries a short popular science article summarising ISA’s research on international trade and biodiversity decline.
15 July 2014, The Linden Gallery carries an exhibit about ISA’s Eora MRIO database.
20 June 2014, ISA’s Eora MRIO database is used in the African Economic Outlook for enumerating global value chains in Africa.
4 March 2014, The Business Insider comments on ISA analysis on global master-servant relationships by Ali Alsamawi, Joy Murray and Manfred Lenzen, reaching 4 million unique viewers.
27 February 2014, The Conversation carries analysis by Joy Murray and Ali Alsamawi, including an interactive map, explaining how social footprints can add to our understanding of how inequality-implicated commodities move around the world.
5 February 2014, The journal Nature features a commentary authored by Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, mentioning ISA’s Eora database: “On the basis of data collected by Manfred Lenzen, a professor of sustainability research at the University of Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues, we estimate that if not replaced, the cessation of exports from the Philippines, for example from fisheries and agriculture, would affect 6% of US production directly. The potential secondary effect, mainly through the retail trade, would be larger and could affect 21% of US production.”
13 November 2013, The European Commission features ISA’s global biodiversity study in their news alert.
17 October 2013, The German Süddeutsche Zeitung carries a feature article entitled “The underestimated greed”, reporting on a study led by Prof Tommy Wiedmann and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA, using ISA’s Eora database. The study shows for the first time that the decoupling of economic growth and environmental burden is likely to be less effective than previously thought. The study was also publicised by the ABC.
16 September 2013, A petition aimed at phasing out all purse seine fishing within the Cook Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone has been handed to Prime Minister Henry Puna by environmentalists and local residents of Mauke island, Andrew and June Hosking. Andrew and June participated in ISA’s Sustainable Islands Project. The petition was signed by almost 100% of Mauke’s voting population. “This matter must go beyond politics and must be tackled globally. The Cook Islands, as small as we are, are huge in ocean area, we have a voice internationally and mustn’t be shy to use it. The Pacific holds around 12% of the world’s population but 50% of its fish stocks. The big nations can no longer provide for their own populations, so now look to us for their fish supply. We have a massive bargaining chip here, bigger than oil. We have a responsibility to ensure there are fish remaining not just for the Pacific, but for the world.” said Andrew Hosking in response to the overwhelming success of Mauke’s petition. Future plans are about extending the petition outside Mauke and the Cook Islands. See reports at Radio New Zealand and Cook Island News.
5 September 2013, ISA’s research contributes to a study on the Material Footprints of Nations published in PNAS. The study revealed that the amount of raw material needed to sustain developed countries’ economies is significantly greater than current indicators suggest. The study’s findings demonstrate the need for policy makers to consider new accounting methods that more accurately track resource consumption. The publication has been picked up by the BBC News, in The Conversation, in Green Career, and on Phys.org.
7 August 2013, Darian McBain’s new research into mineral supply chains points exposes the grim social and environmental costs of our consumer electronics - Read More.
24 April 2013, ISA’s research on international trade and embodied carbon emissions features in a UK Committee on Climate Change report on the need to reduce the UK’s domestic and imported emissions and address UK’s competitiveness risks. The Committee on Climate Change is an independent, statutory body established under the UK Climate Change Act 2008. Its purpose is to advise the UK Government and Devolved Administrations on emissions targets and report to the UK Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change.
15 March 2013, ISA’s research features in Australian Science.
September 2012, NeCTAR announces ISA-led large-scale Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory, in collaboration with Intersect, UNSW, CSIRO, University of Queensland, University of Ballarat, Griffith University, University of South Australia, and University of Melbourne.
7 June 2012, ISA publishes results of ARC-funded research project in Nature, showing that international trade drives 30% of global species threats. ISA’s findings are widely reported in the press, eg Le Monde, Scientific American, BBC, Reuters UK, El Pais, Die Welt, Volkskrant, 47News Japan, 24France News, Radio Canada, Straits Times Singapore, AsiaOne, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk, Le Matin (Switzerland), Ansa (Italy), El Silenciero (Mexico), Natur+Kosmos (Germany), SINC (Spain), El Comercio (Peru), COSMOS, J-Wave Tokyo Morning Radio, European Commission DG Environment Science for Environment Policy News Alert, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 9News, Sydney Morning Herald, The Conversation, Radio Australia, The Age, ABC Rural, Herald Sun, Brisbane Times, ABC Science, Canberra Times, as well as in Nature podcasts, blogs, and a commentary. For press releases.
2 December 2011, ISA was one of the invited participants at a conference hosted by the APEC Secretariat in Singapore. Together with representants from the World Trade Organisation, the US International Trade Commission, Japan’s Institute of Developing Economies, and the Moscow Higher School of Economics, Manfred Lenzen discussed uses of input-output tables as part of efforts to strengthen policy making in the Asia-Pacific.
25 November 2011, ISA’s journal article on the environmental “hinterland” of Australian cities has been voted Editor’s choice by the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is now free for download.
September 2011, Article in The Australian on the School of Physics’ successes at the 2011 Eureka Awards. ISA’s award is discussed at the end of the article.
14 December 2010, ABC News report ISA’s findings about Canberra’s Ecological Footprint growing. See also full report.
November 2010, Manfred Lenzen visits the Pacific island of Niue in order to plan for a new sustainability initiative similar to that already realised by ISA on Norfolk Island. The visit is documented in a televised interview on Niue TV.
3 September 2010, UK government’s chief environment scientist Robert Watson speaks about research undertaken by ISA and the Stockholm Environment Institute in a BBC interview.
21 June 2010, ISA is hosting the 18^th International Input-Output Conference, which is also covered in the UniNews.
15 January 2010, High-profile research conducted by ISA and ISA’s UK partner SEI for the UK government has now reached the UK Parliament. A Private Members Bill has been put forward in the House of Lords – the Bill seeks to put in place a consumer emissions target (the current Climate Change Act which sets an 80% reduction target only deals with production emissions). Lord Teverson who initiated the bill said: “The Defra report considered the position in the United Kingdom in 2004 and came to the conclusion – I was surprised by the accuracy with which the figures can be worked out by academics – that the consumption emissions of the United Kingdom economy were some 37 per cent higher than our production emissions.” The UK Parliament website has more information on the Consumer Emissions Bill.
9 December 2009, ABC Radio National coverage of the Perth Town Hall public debate “Going Nuclear?” including Manfred Lenzen.
15 September 2009, ABC Rural Western Australia story on ISA’s research on low-carbon electricity technologies featuring Manfred Lenzen. Also broadcast in South Australia.
31 August 2009, ABC Rural interview on low-carbon electricity technologies featuring Manfred Lenzen. Includes mp3 audio files for download.
18 August 2009, The Lenzen report is mentioned in a speech to the Sydney Institute by the AWU National Secretary Paul Howes.
30 July 2009, Manfred Lenzen’s research for the Australia Uranium Association’s commissioned report Current state of development of electricity-generating technologies – a literature review is featured in the Australian Financial Review’s article Governments slow to come clean on coal.
May 2009, Chris Dey is interviewed by Peter Switzer for Qantas radio Talking Business (see transcript).
April 2009, Chris Dey and the team are featured in Sydney Science, Sustaining our uncertain future.
December 2008, issue of Travel + Leisure, the Green Challenge article considers eco-conscious travel featuring Chris Dey.
1 August 2008, BBC4 TODAY Interview about ISA and SEI’s work for Defra UK, a calculation of the UK’s carbon footprint, with Dr John Barrett from SEI and UK environment minister Phil Woolas.
1 August 2008, BBC News, coverage of ISA’s and SEI’s calculation of the UK’s carbon footprint.
March 2008, in the Black journal article Calculating your Business’ Carbon Footprint, featuring ISA’s data and algorithms;
January 2008, the British Government uses ISA’s research on nuclear energy in its White Paper on Nuclear Power (see Sections 2.13ff).
15 November 2007, ABC TV Catalyst show, featuring ISA’s Chris Dey.
13 October 2007, Pacific Edge article on ISA’s Manfred Lenzen’s presentation to local councils on ecological footprints.
9 October 2007, Campus Review article on the University of Sydney’s TBL project: “The bigger picture”.
18-19 August 2007, Sydney Morning Herald front page article on ISA’s Environmental Atlas: “Top suburbs are costing the Earth”.
18-19 August 2007, Sydney Morning Herald article on ISA’s Greenhouse Atlas: “Spending our way to climate change”.
3 July 2007, Sydney Morning Herald article ”Into the meat of the issue”, also in Brisbane Times.
27 June 2007, ABC Rural program on how the “Ecological footprint is linked to income”.
April 2007, Green is Good for Business (The Press UK) article about BottomLine³ software in the UK.
30 March 2007, Sydney Morning Herald article on ISA’s talks with Woolworths on food miles and carbon emissions of imported food.
21 March 2007, ABC Rural news on water use and food prices.
20 March 2007, G Magazine online feature on a comparison of the environmental impacts of buses and trains, based on Manfred Lenzen’s study.
10 February 2007, Daily Telegraph full-page profile on ISA’s activities.
January 2007 issue of ‘G’ magazine: Rebecca Blackburn on ISA’s comparisons of “Train Vs Bus”.
5 December 2006, ABC LateNightLive forum featuring Chris Dey and Manfred Lenzen: “Is Australia’s Future Nuclear?”.
22 November 2006, ABC Local Radio show on nuclear options for Australia.
19 October 2006, ABC Science Online report: “It’s easy being greener”.
31 August 2006, ABC TV Catalyst show, featuring ISA’s Chris Dey.
9 August 2006, ABC Lateline TV show on the future of ethanol.
25 May 2006, ABC News story featuring Barney Foran: “Environmental scientist flags impact of human consumption”.
30 May 2005, Canberra Times article on the Balancing Act report: “Counting the ecological cost”.
25 May 2005, Sydney Morning Herald front page article on ISA’s Balancing Act report: “Go figure: one swig costs buckets of water”.
24 May 2005, ABC News story on food prices and the environment.
30 April 2005, The Age article refers to input provided by ISA in the report “The Ecological Footprint of Victoria â Assessing Victoria’s Demand on Nature”.
4 November 2002, ABC Four Corners interview with Barney Foran: “Future Dilemmas”.
13 April 2002, EarthBeat Radio National broadcast featuring Shauna Murray and Manfred Lenzen: “Discarding the Bovver Boots: Ecological Footprints”.
15 March 2002, the UniNews carry an article about ISA’s study on the School of Physics’ Ecological Footprint.
9 November 2001, ABC Science News report: “Down-to-earth approach to Marrakech”.