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University of Tasmania
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Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP.2007.7.4.118
Abstract: While Australia has signed both the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it has failed to ratify the latter. It is nevertheless committed to meeting its +8% Kyoto target for greenhouse gas emissions, and argues that it is on track to doing so. This paper examines Australia's non-ratification politics and greenhouse policy efforts in an attempt to explain its contrary position of resisting Kyoto, yet embracing and pursuing its emission reduction targets. Australia's behavior as a carbon-intensive nation is highly significant in the global context, and this paper focuses on the domestic factors of interests, ideas and institutions, while also considering international factors in trying to explain Australia's non-ratification of Kyoto and climate change policy development. It finds that while ideas and institutions have been modifying influences in the domestic context, political and economic interests have dominated Australia's greenhouse policy.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1997
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1999
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
DOI: 10.1080/714000658
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-06-2021
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.725
Abstract: This Focus review provides an overview of climate politics and policy under the Turnbull (2015–2018) and Morrison (2018) conservative Coalition governments following the dismantling of carbon pricing in 2014. Without effective policies to reduce emissions in place, Australia will fail to meet its 2030 Paris emissions reduction target. Climate policy failure is framed in these terms. The paper outlines Australia's climate policy challenge and the macroconstraints upon action, before detailing commentary and analysis of climate politics and policies post 2015. In reviewing accounts of the Turnbull and Morrison government's climate policy efforts, the paper draws attention to the handbrake of conservative politics upon decisive action. It finds that Australia's climate policy is not only structurally constrained by its reliance upon fossil fuels, but has been politically constrained by conservatives within the Coalition government since 2015. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance National Climate Change Policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
DOI: 10.1080/714000658
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-02-2020
DOI: 10.1017/GOV.2018.55
Abstract: Whilst much has been written about the opportunities and perils of Green participation in national coalition governments, analysis of Greens supporting minority governments is less common and has not focused on comparative-historical trends as this article does. We look beyond single case studies of Green-supported minority governments in order to establish historical party trajectories and policy impact over time in three countries with different political systems. The extent of the comparative work here has never previously been undertaken and establishes that repeat instances of such support can provide the basis for more stable and effective future interparty governing relationships. However, we argue that, whilst trust can build between parties to minority government arrangements over decades, it is not assured, and, whilst Green parties may achieve ministerial control after repeat instances of supporting minority governments, the benefits of doing so are not guaranteed.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-11-2016
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 30-07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1996
Publisher: Policy Press
Date: 14-10-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-11-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12404
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1996
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-05-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2001
DOI: 10.1002/JEPP.95
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2002
DOI: 10.1002/JEPP.98
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1998
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-03-2017
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.458
Abstract: The 2013 election of Australia's conservative Abbott Coalition (Liberal and National parties) government saw the repeal of carbon pricing, (which had previously been implemented by the Labor government in 2012), assume the first order of business. This Focus article reviews expert and political commentary and analysis of the repeal, and provides an overview of the Abbott government's dismantling and attempted dismantling of other climate initiatives. It reviews commentary and critiques of the government's substitute Direct Action ( DA ) policy and its capacity to reduce emissions. The views of the international community on the Abbott government's repositioning of Australia's climate policy are considered, as are the prospects of achieving effective emissions reduction policy under Abbott's successor, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The paper notes the role of the Senate in both assisting and frustrating government reforms, as well as aspects of policy continuity that could see a form of carbon pricing revived in future. It explores the correlation between the political ascension of Tony Abbott and his rejection of carbon pricing, whether his substitute DA mechanism will effectively reduce emissions, and the adequacy of Australia's current global climate policy aspirations. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e458. doi: 10.1002/wcc.458 This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance National Climate Change Policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2013
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.239
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the politics of climate policy with a focus on carbon pricing politics under recent Australian Labor governments. It reviews and explains the impact of politics upon climate policy and draws attention to the influence of the fossil fuel lobby. It reviews historical context, including early, failed attempts to set and pursue emissions reduction the domestic and international recalcitrance of neoliberal leaders and the recent shift to embrace carbon pricing. It considers the impact of politics upon climate policy outcomes, piecing together political and policy efforts to price carbon, and drawing attention to the agenda setting of the Australian States and Territories, and of Kevin Rudd both as Labor opposition leader and as Prime Minister. It argues that the capacity of industry to thwart effective carbon pricing was only checked by institutional influences once Labor assumed minority government in 2010. In these circumstances, Labor relied upon the Australian Greens, not only to support in part its government in office, but also to pass legislation in the Senate where the Greens hold the balance of power. Under these circumstances, carbon pricing could be negotiated and agreed upon by a Multi‐Party Committee on Climate Change ( MPCCC ) comprising the government and its parliamentary supporters, including independents and the Greens. Whilst political and economic interests have largely shaped Australia's climate change agendas, it is concluded that policy shifts are nevertheless possible where there is a propitious combination of political, normative, and institutional influences. WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:603–613. doi: 10.1002/wcc.239 This article is categorized under: The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation Policies, Instruments, Lifestyles, Behavior Policy and Governance National Climate Change Policy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-08-2020
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-1999
DOI: 10.1108/03068299910245787
Abstract: This paper reviews the emergent literature on ecological modernisation and considers its theoretical utility in terms of assessing environmental employment opportunities in Australia. It explores the potential for ecologically modernist policy to offer a way beyond “jobs versus environment” obstacles to greener employment. The future development of post industrial economies is said by ecological modernists to depend upon an ability to produce high value, high quality products with stringent enforcement standards. In these terms, environmental amenity becomes a superior good, and environmental protection not an economic burden, but an opportunity for enhanced growth and job creation. The employment impact of such claims is examined in the Australian context.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1996
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 2009
Funder: University of Tasmania
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