This policy brief details what role, if any, Australia should play in limiting the process of deforestation and forest degradation in neighboring ‘rainforest nations’ – especially Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Peter Kanowski looks at Australia’s participation in international forest processes as well as regional capacity building for more sustainable forest management, and analyses the...

In the past decade climate change has become one of the world’s biggest public policy issues. Ten years ago no one would have predicted that the Nobel Peace prize would be awarded to 10,000 or so climate scientists (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and a populariser, Al Gore, of its possible impacts. In this Policy...