Climate change policy

Climate policy across Australia is fragmented, but researchers are aiming to use big data to make better sense of it.

Fitzgibbon believes he’ll be in a better position to agitate over the party’s coal mining policy from the backbench.

Climate change, the ecological footprint, population growth and development pressures are the major drivers of environmental challenges for the ACT, according to the territory’s commissioner for sustainability and the environment.

Nobel Prize-winning health researcher Peter Doherty reflects on the challenge of delivering a healthy climate for the world. From hydrogen power to wooden skyscrapers, the options are endless, but all require leadership.

Between the developing world paradox, and the intractable political failure in Australia, the problem of climate change has limited solutions. Former government economist on climate change, Jon Stanford, writes that we could still look to a regulatory approach to achieve a realistic outcome in Paris.

The architect of the former Labor government’s carbon pricing scheme looks to the future, where increasingly it is not Australia who leads. Climate change won’t go away, so what can and should Australia do next?