Vanessa Petrie

Vanessa Petrie

Beyond Zero Emissions

Vanessa is the CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions. She is an experienced sustainability leader and is passionate about BZE’s role in developing achievable and affordable solutions for rapidly decarbonising the Australian economy. 

Vanessa has close to  20 years’ experience working in diverse roles across local and State Government and the NFP sector including infrastructure projects, legislative policy development, major policy reform and waste and resource recovery planning. 

Vanessa has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering from RMIT University, and a Masters of Environment from the University of Melbourne.

Web tools and Projects we developed

  • Open-NEM

    The live tracker of the Australian electricity market.

  • Paris Equity Check

    This website is based on a Nature Climate Change study that compares Nationally Determined Contributions with equitable national emissions trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.

  • liveMAGICC Climate Model

    Run one of the most popular reduced-complexity climate carbon cycle models online. Used by IPCC, UNEP GAP reports and numerous scientific publications.

  • NDC & INDC Factsheets

    Check out our analysis of all the post-2020 targets that countries announced under the Paris Agreement.