Despite G7 climate pledge, the country isn’t embracing renewables.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Climate policy
Displaying 301 - 320 of 347 articles
The G7 is just the first in a series of international gatherings that will define climate policy for years to come.
Cutting soot emissions may be fashionable but it won’t stabilise global temperatures
Unless Africa can manage the effects of climate change, the agricultural future for many Africans looks bleak.
This month Canada revealed its post-2020 climate target as 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. But current policies make it unlikely Canada will achieve the target within the country.
We need political intervention if southern African countries are to mitigate the effects of climate change.
While the recent emissions reduction auction in Australia was a success, much more needs to be done to build an effective climate policy.
Bjorn Lomborg’s “consensus” approach involves ranking global development policies by their ratio of benefit to cost. But this hard-headed economic rationale can actually end up entrenching inequality.
Amid talk of paths to surplus and investing in infrastructure, both sides of politics seem to have forgotten Australia’s longstanding responsibility to govern sustainably, and not just for the economy.
Labour’s green jobs numbers add up, but the picture’s less clear on fracking.
Hopes are high that a global climate deal can be reached in Paris this year. In part 1 of a three-part essay on the prospects for such a deal, Nick Rowley sets out three myths about the UN talks that need to be dumped before we go forward.
Discouraging carbon emissions via a carbon tax could deliver the government much needed revenue.
Big energy infrastructure projects – power plants, coal mines, long distance transmission lines – take time, resources and, typically, some political muscle. They create highly visible if short-lived construction…
Devoted followers of international wrangling on climate change will see much that they recognise in the five-page text emanating from the UN climate talks in Lima. The “parties” (countries) have long accepted…
The world is a step closer to a new climate agreement that will see all countries, not just developed ones, take action on greenhouse emissions after 2020. The two-week Lima climate summit, which ran two…
Could the preoccupation with legally binding targets sink the next climate deal in Paris in 2015? In the run-up to this week’s Lima talks, widely seen as a precursor to the Paris summit, the Abbott government…
At the UN Climate Negotiations underway in Lima, Peru, foreign minister Julie Bishop has called on China and India to do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In her address to the conference on Wednesday…
The climate science might be gloomy but at least governments seem to be doing something about it. The number of laws passed to address climate change is steadily increasing across the world. By last year…
Australia’s foreign minister Julie Bishop will have a lot of explaining to do when she arrives here in Lima, Peru, ahead of her address to the UN climate summit tomorrow. It will take all of her diplomatic…
No sooner had foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop announced that Australia should take a fresh look at nuclear power than Prime Minister Tony Abbott responded that nuclear power would only be supported…
Job Board
-
Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)
-
Senior Disability Services Advisor
-
Deputy Social Media Producer
-
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
-
GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION CHAIRPERSON
Top contributors
-
Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
-
Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
-
Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
-
Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
-
Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
-
Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
-
Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
-
Adjunct professor, Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
-
Associate Professor, Australian National University
-
Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
-
Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
