Just Transition not yet a priority at Copenhagen
Peter Colley, national research director at the CFMEU, a union whose members will be at the frontline of any transition to a carbon-neutral economy, was in Copenhagen as part of a four person CFMEU...
Hope shifts to a treaty in 2010
Rupert Posner from the Climate Group looks beyond the disappointments and debacles of a global conference to see the glass half full.
Cooperation, Community and Climate Change | OCCASIONAL PAPER
Robert Salter argues that better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change.
Social democracy is not enough
Drew Hutton proposes that leftists who care more about the loss of coal mining jobs than reducing carbon emissions can place themselves alongside the climate change denialists, the right-wing think tanks and the fossil...
When the music stops
Kenneth Davidson provides some reasons why we need a carbon tax: to make the polluters feel the cost of their polluting; to finance a massive increase in spending on green infrastructure; and funnel aid...
A politics of climate change
Michael Pusey wants climate change to drive a meaningful consensus for new politics, policies and programs. He urges us to ground the narrative in concrete, accessible, and arresting visual images; in real, living memories;...
Less comfortable for some…
David Ritter argues that climate change and environmental degradation have no value-neutral solutions, and that each potential policy prescription is necessarily founded in some broader concept of the ‘good society’.
It’s Time to Heed the Evidence on Climate Change – full paper
Ian Dunlop makes the case for science-based climate policy
It’s time to heed the evidence on climate change
Ian Dunlop tells us we need to heed the warnings of more recent climate science
Economic Crisis needs a green response: Green Jobs
Sharan Burrow argues that ‘green jobs’ must be part of a response to the economic crisis