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At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed
to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the
worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate
scientists agree that current national emissions targets
collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the
'ambition gap' between climate science and climate policy is likely
to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by
or before 2100. If a 'Four Degree World' is the de facto goal of
policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look
like. Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World
outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and
its region. Its contributors include many of Australia's most
eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate
policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible,
detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely
impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia's social, economic and
ecological systems. The book offers policy makers, politicians,
students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most
recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming,
and possible responses.
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed
to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the
worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate
scientists agree that current national emissions targets
collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the
'ambition gap' between climate science and climate policy is likely
to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by
or before 2100. If a 'Four Degree World' is the de facto goal of
policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look
like. Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World
outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and
its region. Its contributors include many of Australia's most
eminent and internationally recognized climate scientists, climate
policy makers and policy analysts. They provide an accessible,
detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely
impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia's social, economic and
ecological systems. The book offers policy makers, politicians,
students, and anyone interested climate change, access to the most
recent research on potential Australian impacts of global warming,
and possible responses.
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest
year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian
continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were
unprecedented. Over six months in 2019–20 they burned more than
ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern forests
— one of the largest areas burnt anywhere on Earth in a single
event. The fires killed 33 people and 430 more died as an indirect
consequence and they caused unfathomable harm to native species.
Their economic ramifications were extensive and enduring. State and
federal governments and communities were under-prepared for that
inferno and its many impacts. Yet global warming is increasing the
likelihood of such events. The Fires Next Time offers a
comprehensive assessment of the Black Summer fires. Its
contributors analyse the event from many vantage points and
disciplines — historical, climate scientific, ecological,
economic, and political. They assess its impacts on human health
and wellbeing, on native plants and animals, and on fire management
and emergency response. They consider whether reactions could have
been different, and what is needed to improve our handling of
future bushfires. Contributors include Sophie Aitken, Danielle
Celermajer, Robyn Eckersley, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tom Griffiths,
Michael Grose, Pham Van Ha, David Karoly, Rod Keenan, Andrew King,
Tom Kompas, Christine Li, Greg Mullins, Stephen Pyne, Libby Rumpff,
David Schlosberg, Kevin Tolhurst, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Iain Walker
and Brendan Wintle.
This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic
analysis of the relationship between globalization and the
environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter
Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework
for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and
the highly uneven, often faltering, international political
response. The authors develop linkages between economic
globalization and environmental degradation and explore a range of
key global environmental problems-focusing on the two most
challenging of all: climate change and biodiversity loss. Finally,
they critically explore the challenges of environmental governance
in a world defined by global capitalism and sovereign states.
Providing a normative framework for evaluating global environmental
governance, they suggest alternative institutional and policy
responses. Through a rich set of case studies, this powerful book
will help readers grasp the systemic causes of global environmental
degradation as well as the myriad opportunities for reform of
global environmental governance.
This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic
analysis of the relationship between globalization and the
environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter
Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework
for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and
the highly uneven, often faltering, international political
response. The authors develop linkages between economic
globalization and environmental degradation and explore a range of
key global environmental problems-focusing on the two most
challenging of all: climate change and biodiversity loss. Finally,
they critically explore the challenges of environmental governance
in a world defined by global capitalism and sovereign states.
Providing a normative framework for evaluating global environmental
governance, they suggest alternative institutional and policy
responses. Through a rich set of case studies, this powerful book
will help readers grasp the systemic causes of global environmental
degradation as well as the myriad opportunities for reform of
global environmental governance.
Climate Law in Australia provides the first extended account of
Australia's new climate law. It examines key federal and state
legislation and the main cases brought before Australian courts. It
combines incisive legal analysis with a deep understanding of
climate-related issues and policy. The authors include leading
academics such as Professors Robyn Eckersley, David Farrier, Rob
Fowler and Jan McDonald, and leading practitioners such as Charles
Berger, Kirsty Ruddock, Chris McGrath, Allison Warburton and
Martijn Wilder. The editors are Professor Tim Bonyhady, Director of
the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the Australian
National University, and Dr Peter Christoff of the University of
Melbourne and Vice President of the Australian Conservation
Foundation. The book examines pivotal issues in Australian climate
law and policy the Kyoto Protocol and its alternatives, emissions
targets, carbon trading, geosequestration, nuclear decision-making,
adaptation to climate change and legal liability. It contains
detailed analysis of the leading cases involving the Hazelwood
power station, the Anvil Hill, Xstrata and Bowen Basin coal mines,
and the Bald Hills and Taralga wind farms. Climate Law in Australia
explores both the need for conventional legal regulation and the
potential of economic responses to climate change. It shows how
climate law has grown in Australia - and how far the law still has
to go.
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