The environment department deputy secretary, Rhondda Dickson, former head of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, will head the new office of climate change and renewable innovation, which will include Arena and the CEFC.
He has a wide range of senior public sector experience, including deputy director of the prime minister's strategy unit, head of strategy at the office of climate change and non-executive director of NHS Hammersmith and Fulham.
The director of the new office on climate change, Peter M. Iwanowicz, was the chief policy officer and a clean air advocate for the American Lung Association of New York State.
In a letter to de Boer, Trigg Valley, the director of the US office of global climate change, did move back from earlier suggestions that the US wanted to ditch the UN process, seen as cumbersome by some, and negotiate climate change in a smaller group like the G20 or Major Economies Forum.
At the Met Office, Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution, was in favour of the project if it was open and peer-reviewed.
On 19 June 2009, the state department sent a cable detailing a "spear phishing" attack on the office of the US climate change envoy, Todd Stern, while talks with China on emissions took place in Beijing.
The number of letters coming into the prime minister's office of late from climate change and marine scientists warning of these sorts of scenarios would be very hard to miss, especially when they're signed by some of the best informed scientists from Australia and the rest of the world.
After opining early in his term that "this is not the office of the chief climate change scientist", he has sought to broaden his role, and has led significant initiatives examining the health of Australian science and the state of mathematics, science and engineering education, which led to a $50m funding injection in the 2012 federal budget.
The BBC has apologised for a Radio 4 documentary presented by Daily Mail journalist Quentin Letts criticising the Met Office for its investigation of climate change.
When Donald Trump's administration swooped into office scrubbing all mention of climate change, LGBTQ issues, civil rights, and progressive healthcare reform from the White House's websites, Souza's extensive photographic archive of Barack Obama's presidency also disappeared.
As was much publicized both in the national and international press, minutes after the oath of office, the climate change, health care, civil rights, and LGTBQIA rights pages were taken down.
