Climate change, the Australian Greens, and dynamics of party competition across five national elections in AustraliaThis study examines the impact of mainstream political parties' strategies on the Australian Greens, a 'niche party' associated with the global warming issue. The Green vote rose between...
The Australian Parliament and Climate Change: Are the Institutions Inadequate?Aynsley Kellow
SYDNEY, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has failed dismally to do anything to ward off the effects of climate change, according to most respondents of a national survey released on Thursday. The poll was conducted by the Climate Council, a leading community-funded organisation whi...
SYDNEY, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Australian authors from the newly-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report have concluded that "transformational change" would be needed in every sector to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report, titled Climate Change 2022: Mitig...
In practice, Australian governments of both political hues have adopted a somewhat ambiguous and ambivalent attitude to developing countries within climate change politics and their fulfilment of those commitments has been uneven. This is particularly so if the concept of the ‘Global South’ is ...
Ideas to inspire change in your organisation Our society and economy are transitioning to a world where the only energy is clean energy. Australia’s orderly transition to net zero is the shared responsibility of all Australian communities, businesses, and governments. ...
The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity – genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas – the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are among...
Drawing on three dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper: (1) explores the Australian public's perceptions of climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef; (2) segments respondents into homogenous groups based on their environmental attitudes; and (3) profiles the emergent ...
作者: DOC Change 摘要: Australia has become a coastal society. Around 85 per cent of the population now live in the coastal region and it is of immense economic, social and environmental importance to the nation. All Australian state capital cities are located within the coastal zone, it is...
CANBERRA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- More than half a million Australian houses will be vulnerable to climate change and become uninsurable by 2030, a report has warned. Published on Tuesday, the analysis from the Climate Council found that one in 25 houses, or 521,000 total properties, will be ...