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Australia’s government boasts of being one of the few nations to hit its Kyoto emissions target. But is it any wonder, when the Howard government successfully lobbied to make it almost unmissably easy?
Advocates of climate action have been saying it for years - we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels completely. And now, the leaders of the world’s richest countries have started saying the same.
The mid year Bonn negotiations for the proposed new global agreement to tackle climate change have just concluded. They will be finalised at the end of the year in Paris. What progress is being made? What are the challenging issues that may end up being a focus of negotiations in Paris? What does the roadmap from here look like?
Australia’s grilling by other major nations at this week’s climate talks in Bonn show that it still has serious questions to answer over the scope of its greenhouse emissions-reduction targets.
In the final part of his essay on the Paris climate talks, Nick Rowley explains how a successful deal, whether binding or not, needs to influence directly the domestic policies of the world’s nations.
The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, as Nick Rowley writes in part 2 of his three-part essay on the 2015 Paris climate talks, there are several reasons why this year won’t see another flop.
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.
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director for Technology and Innovation at the International Renewable Energy Agency and Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Public Policy Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Academic position - Research Associate at the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne
