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Neil Greet

Climate Security Analyst and Advisor

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Neil is a retired Australian Defence Force officer with 30 years’ service, now a strategic adviser on resilience, humanitarian action, and energy systems, leading policy and research in engineering and national security.

Summary

  • Retired Australian Defence Force officer with 30 years operational experience.
  • Led disaster response, indigenous community projects, and resilience initiatives.
  • Director at Institute of Integrated Economics Research and Collaborative Outcomes.
  • Experienced in humanitarian engineering, energy policy, and indigenous engineering advancement.
  • Conducting research on energy resiliency and foresight at UNSW Canberra.
Neil served in the Australia Defence Force for 30 years with operational service in Iraq and Timor Leste. He led projects in several remote indigenous communities and played a key role in Defence’s response to Victoria’s 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ disaster. He is a Director of the Institute of Integrated Economics Research, and the consultancy Collaborative Outcomes which provides strategic advice on resiliency and humanitarian action. Neil is an Engineering Executive and is Deputy Chair of the Engineers Australia College of Leadership and Management Board. Through Engineers Australia and other NGOs, Neil has led policy development on humanitarian engineering, and the advancement of indigenous engineering. He has worked with Engineers Australia and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on energy policy for several years, and in 2019, Neil co-edited a policy report “Designing for resilient energy systems: Choices in future engineering”. He is currently undertaking higher degree research at the University of New South Wales – Canberra on Energy Resiliency and Foresight.

We cannot be a resilient nation unless we understand risk. So, we talk about Australians being resilient, well we have a responsibility to understand risk and act on it to make ourselves resilient.

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ARTICLES
A Perfect Recipe for Food Insecurity
When global events collide, the consequences may be unprecedented
REPORTS
A Climate-First Foreign Policy For Australia
Climate disruption demands urgent reorientation of Australian foreign and security policy priorities.
ARTICLES
Oblivious to the Storm
AMOC collapse threatens global food security, sea levels, and climate stability, with severe impacts on Australia.
REPORTS
Too Hot to Handle
Australia’s climate-security response is dangerously inadequate, ignoring urgent scientific warnings and concealing key risk assessments.
REPORTS
Heat to Hunger
Climate-driven food insecurity threatens global stability; Australia must act urgently to assess and address escalating security risks.
REPORTS
Australian Climate & Security Risk Assessment
Proposal to establish an urgent, independent Australian climate and security risk assessment framework.
REPORTS
Missing in Action
With the planet already effectively at 1.5°C of warming—and no sign of emissions peaking—the world is now on a dangerous trajectory toward 3°C.
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Could Four Billion People Die at 3°C?
Every 1,000 tonnes of fossil carbon burned may result in one future premature death.
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Drowning in Distraction
Any sane security policy would put climate risks, not China, at centre stage.
Politics Policymaking Human Security
TOPSHOT - Women members of Iran's Red Crescent society stand near smoke plumes from an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, sparking swift retaliation by the Islamic republic which responded with missile attacks across the region. The war has dragged in global powers, upended the world's energy and transport sectors, and brought chaos to even usually peaceful areas of the volatile region. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
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Iran War Heightens Climate Risks
As a regional power and signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Australia has responsibilities. There are four steps the government should take.
Politics Human Security
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on December 4, 2019 shows a passenger aircraft flying across the setting sun in Sydney, as smoke haze continues to hang over the city with more than 50 bushfires still burning across New South Wales. - Australian authorities on December 5 said the toxic smoke that has enshrouded Sydney for much of November is unprecedented, as residents donned masks and cranked air conditioners in the hope of respite. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) (Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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In the Burning Days
Northern Australia faces escalating climate risk amid defence and fossil expansion.
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Recipe for food insecurity
Converging climate, fertiliser and food shocks threaten profound instability across Australia’s region.
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Climate disruption, not China, is the key security threat facing Australia
This submission argues climate disruption, not military rivalry, represents Australia’s greatest security risk, demanding a major rethink of AUKUS-era spending priorities.
Impacts & Risks Politics Policymaking Human Security
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A Climate-First Foreign Policy For Australia
Climate disruption demands urgent reorientation of Australian foreign and security policy priorities.
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Too Hot to Handle
Australia’s climate-security response is dangerously inadequate, ignoring urgent scientific warnings and concealing key risk assessments.
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