About Us
Climate Integrity was founded in 2024 to increase the ambition, integrity and accountability of the climate commitments of Australian companies.
Our team and Board is made up of analysts, advocates, lawyers, communications professionals, and supported by an Expert Network of civil society leaders, scientists, researchers and academics.
Our People
Claire Snyder
TEAM
Executive Director
Claire launched Climate Integrity after working at the intersection of climate change, public opinion and politics for over 15 years.
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During the 2022 Federal Election campaign, she was part of the startup team for Climate 200 and the Head of Communications and Research.
She helped launch up the Climate Council in 2013, leading their fundraising, engagement, and community teams to help build one of Australia's leading climate organisations.
As a strategy consultant, she has worked deeply with more than 20 leading for-purpose organisations, including on the merger of the Environmental Defenders Offices, and as a climate strategist with Purpose, Oxfam, 350.org & Wilderness Society.
Alexandra Blucher
TEAM
Head of Investigations
Alexandra is an investigative journalist with over a decade of experience in exposing systemic failures, integrity concerns and corruption.
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Alexandra is a Walkley award-winning investigative journalist who has investigated a vast range of areas including environmental and mining regulation, corporate accountability, the child protection system, local government corruption, the mistreatment of people with intellectual disabilities in the public and private sectors and allegations of war crimes.
Her work has led to significant audience engagement and outcomes, including government reforms, corruption investigations, questions in parliament and extensive national media coverage.
She is passionate about ensuring corporate Australia and governments are held accountable to reach their climate targets.
Michael Mazengarb
TEAM
Head of Corporate Accountability
Michael has a background in climate science, law and journalism and has advised NGOs and corporations on climate scenarios, climate risk and strategy.
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Michael has more than a 15 years of professional experience in climate science and policy, clean energy technologies and environmental market analysis, spanning roles in government, not-for-profits, journalism and corporate advisory.
Michae has advised on materiality assessments, scenario analysis, and climate risk assessments for start-ups, fund managers and ASX-listed firms.He recently received a Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of Technology Sydney, with a keen interest in environmental law, climate law and litigation, and was admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Bronwyn Adcock
TEAM
Head of Public Affairs
Bronwyn is an award-winning journalist and writer with 25 years of experience across print, radio and video journalism.
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Bronwyn has worked as a radio current-affairs reporter and documentary maker for the ABC, a video journalist for SBS’s Dateline and a freelance writer for The Saturday Paper and The Monthly .
She has reported extensively on politics, human rights, war and conflict, and climate change. Both in Australia and from Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Eastern Europe, the United States, and Africa.
In 2022, Bronwyn won the Walkley Book Award for her book, Currowan, a non-fiction account of the 2019-2020 Australian Black Summer bushfires.
Most recently, she was the Communications Lead at The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility.
Kate Melville-Rea
TEAM
Climate & Energy Analyst
Kate is an environmental researcher and communicator with a focus on climate policy, corporate sustainability reporting and decarbonisation roadmaps.
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Kate works to make climate issues clear, credible and compelling. She loves digging into data – whether that’s unpicking the assumptions behind a fossil fuel advert, dissecting the emissions modelling behind a policy proposal, or tracing the carbon offsets behind a ‘net zero’ claim.
If she finds something really egregious, she’s been know to take it to TikTok.
She has lived in Australia, Vietnam, Japan and the UAE, and worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Climate Council, the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre.
Sam Blake
TEAM
Strategy & Governance
Sam is a strategist supporting Climate Integrity’s long-term impact goals and organisational governance as Company Secretary.
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Sam works to build fairer systems. Over the past 15 years, she has worked in strategy, engagement, and advocacy roles helping organisations and teams grow their impact and reach in the areas of climate action, health equity and democracy.
Helping establish and build emerging campaigns and organisations from the ground up, managing large national climate campaigns, advising dozens of organisations on digital and fundraising strategies, and delivering projects that deepen community engagement.
Sam grew up near incredible old growth forests and the fight to save them from logging motivating a long career in campaigns and advocacy.
Our Board
Kirsty Ruddock
BOARD
Board Chair
Kirsty is an experienced climate lawyer and litigator, representing and advising clients on a range of environmental law issues.
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Kirsty has considerable experience in regulatory investigations, prosecutions and civil enforcement cases, particularly in the environmental and consumer law area.
She has worked in senior Government enforcement roles, including as the Director of the Water Enforcement Taskforce with the NSW Natural Access Resources Regulator, Director of Compliance and Investigations at the NSW Department of Planning and Environment and Director of Enforcement Group for ACCC.
She previously worked as Principal Solicitor at EDO NSW and EDO NQ, and the Managing Lawyer Safe Climate at EDO and holds degrees in law and arts from the Australian National University.
Isabelle Reinecke
BOARD
Board Director
Isabelle is a leader successfully driving system change on the critical issues of our time, helping build a fairer, safer and more inclusive Australia.
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Isabelle founded Grata Fund, a leading not-profit based at the University of NSW that acts as a campaigner, litigation incubator and funder for people and communities challenging systemic gridlocks across three key areas: human rights, climate injustice and democratic freedoms.
As Executive Director of Grata, she leads the strategy and collaboration with some of the nation’s top legal minds, civil society organisations and community advocates to support and design cases to advance and protect rights and freedoms. Grata has incubated numerous landmark cases that have set significant precedents and shifted the dial on important subjects, from challenging climate change injustice, to exposing abuse in offshore refugee detention centres, and establishing new rights to humane housing in remote First Nations communities. She has helped facilitate over $2M in philanthropic case funding from passionate supporters. Prior, Isabelle had more than 10 years’ experience as a director and lawyer at organisations including Getup, Immigration Advice and Rights Centre, and as a solicitor at Clayton Utz, where she acted for First Nations clients seeking stolen wages reparations in remote East Kimberley.
Isabelle is the author of Courting Power: Law Democracy and the Public Interest in Australia and an expert in the intersection of the law, politics and power.
Harriet Kater
BOARD
Board Director
Harriet works at the forefront of climate action on strategies to expedite the shift of Australian manufacturers off fossil gas use.
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Prior to joining Lock the Gate, Harriet worked with institutional investors to drive the largest listed emitters to establish science-aligned strategy. She has also worked for environmental NGOs and in the private sector consulting to ASX-listed clients in the oil and gas, mining, chemicals and retail industries on climate and energy strategies.
She also worked with Indigenous Business Australia in a renewable energy portfolio management role.Harriet grew up on a sheep and cattle property in far southern NSW during severe drought. This compelled her to work in climate change from early in her career.
Our Expert Network
Dr Kate Dooley
EXPERT NETWORK
Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Kate is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with current research focus on the political economy of land based climate mitigation.
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Kate has policy expertise on forest governance, climate change and carbon accounting and her research focusses on the intersection of forest governance and climate policy.
Kate has published on rights-based approaches to ecosystem restoration, the politics of forest carbon accounting, and land-use for sustainable development.
Her current research looks at the political economy of land based climate mitigation and how competing ideas about land use are institutionalised in carbon accounting practices.
Prof. Joo-Cheong Tham
EXPERT NETWORK
Director at The Centre for Public Integrity & Professor at Melbourne Law School
Joo-Cheong has expertise in labour law and public law. His research has examined regulation, democracy, and the climate crisis.
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Joo-Cheong’s labour law research focusses on the regulation of precarious work.
His doctoral thesis examined the legal precariousness of casual employment and he has a significant body of work on migrant labour; he has also researched labour protection under trade agreements. His public law research centres upon law and democracy with a particular emphasis on the role of money in politics.
Since the 2019 student climate strikes, Joo-Cheong has increasingly orientated his research towards the climate crisis.
Tamara Inkster-Draper
EXPERT NETWORK
Acting Director in the International Climate Politics Hub (ICPH), European Climate Foundation
Tamara is the Acting Director in the ICPH team working to increase global climate ambition through international collaboration.
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Tamara supports the ICPH’s mission to increase global climate ambition by helping to coordinate a diverse network of actors around a political strategy.
Prior to joining ECF in August 2018, Tamara worked for the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) Policy team. Here her work supported the transition to a sustainable, zero-carbon economy through engagement with business, governments, policymakers, and other experts.Tamara holds a PhD from James Cook University, Australia, where her research looked at the impacts of climate change on tropical biodiversity.
Chris Cooper
EXPERT NETWORK
Misinformation and disinformation expert
Cooper brings experience in advocacy and strategy across disinformation, democracy, development, climate change and public health.
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Cooper has 15 years of experience designing and executing advocacy and communications strategies to enable social, cultural and policy change at the intersections of disinformation, democracy, development, climate change and public health.
He co-founded and ran the APAC operations of Purpose, a global social impact agency. And more recently founded Reset.Tech Australia, an independent, non-partisan policy think tank working to drive public policy, new research, and civic engagement to tackle threats to democracy.
Cooper has deep experience working cross-culturally in participatory methodologies that enable marginalised communities to self-advocate and design their own progress and has worked in in East Africa, South Asia, Asia-Pacific, the United States, Europe and Australia.
Dr Wesley Morgan
EXPERT NETWORK
Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk & Response at UNSW
Wesley is a research associate with the Institute for Climate Risk & Response at UNSW and the Australian Climate Accountability Project at the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW. He is also a fellow at the Climate Council and a research fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute.
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Dr Wesley Morgan is a research associate with the Institute for Climate Risk & Response at UNSW.
He has written widely on climate change, and international relations in the Pacific islands. His research considers the ways countries work together at the UN to tackle climate change, and integrate climate change into their foreign policy and national security strategies.
Wesley also has over a decade’s experience living and working in the Pacific islands, where he worked as Pacific Policy Advisor with Oxfam, and taught postgraduate courses in diplomacy at the University of the South Pacific.
Wesley’s research considers the impacts of climate change on Australia and Pacific island countries, and the international context for Australian climate policy.
Wesley is a research associate with the Australian Climate Accountability Project at the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW.
He is also a fellow at the Climate Council and a research fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute (Griffith University).
Alison Atherton
EXPERT NETWORK
Program Lead, Business, Economy & Governance, Institute for Sustainable Futures
Alison is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures examining how the businesses finance sector can contribute to climate action.
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Alison has a background in social sciences, chartered accountancy audit and advisory, and over a decade of experience in sustainability research and consultancy.
The consistent theme underpinning her research is organisational and societal change for sustainability. Alison is particularly interested in understanding how businesses and the finance sector can support achievement of the Paris Climate Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals through responsible investment and corporate sustainability.
Prior to joining ISF, Alison worked for KPMG on corporate sustainability and prior to that, she worked for the UK leading sustainable development organisation Forum for the Future.
Our Vision
Business climate action is transparent, accountable and accelerating rapidly in line with the science of 1.5 degrees.
Our Principles
Championing integrity, transparency, accountability, justice and science in corporate net zero transitions.
Focus Areas
Science-aligned targets and transition plans
We engage with companies to ensure their targets and transition plans are credible, substantiated and aligned with the latest climate science; and we advocate for government policy to mandate clear standards.
False solutions in corporate transition plans
We engage with companies who use false solutions such as low-integrity carbon offsetting and over reliance on future technologies and we advocate for standards and regulation to avoid false solutions.
Ensuring companies’ policy engagement is aligned with their net zero commitments.
We engage with companies to align their net zero commitments and policy engagement, with a focus on industry associations.
Highlighting best practice and celebrating leadership
We identify and communicate examples of best practice transitions to zero emissions to help build momentum and support leadership in the energy transition.
Our Partners
Climate Integrity partners with domestic and international organisations and individuals to further our mission. We rely on philanthropic support to do our work. Find out more about our partners here.