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79The devastation caused by the 2002-03 fire season precipitated state and federal inquiries. While each inquiry assessed bushfire mitigation strategies, the impacts on the environment and the resources available to fire services, for the first time all the inquiries raised concern about the impact climate...
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14In 2004, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists gave its wholehearted support to the National Water Initiative and we still do. However, when we put the Initiative together, we gave ourselves until 2014 to get water management right, but nature has taken over the timetable....
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17223The Stern Review is regarded as the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change.
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79In this report commissioned for the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change, CSIRO scientists suggest that future emissions trajectories indicates that, left unchecked, human greenhouse gas emissions will increase several fold over the 21st century. As a consequence, Australia’s annual average temperatures are projected to...
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45Multiple factors indicate that the Asia/Pacific region possess a high degree of vulnerability to climate changes. Many nations within the region already struggle to cope with the current climate variability to which they are exposed including tropical cyclones, rainfall extremes, frequent droughts, and extreme tides....
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55The world’s poorest people – many of whom are already experiencing the effects of climate change – will be the worst hit under climate change with impacts for the developing world predicted to be far more devastating than in industrialised nations. Australia recognises industrial economies...
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31Alan Dupont and Graeme Pearman canvass the international security consequences of climate change especially for Australia's Asia-Pacific neighbourhood.
Their paper examines the implications of temperature increases and sea level rise for food, water, energy, infectious diseases, natural disasters and environmental refugees and asks whether...
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31The fundamental challenge facing the global community on climate change is how to avoid increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere at a rate swift enough to avoid climate induced changes that would be catastrophic to human life. Based on the outcomes of the...
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72The global climate is changing, and will continue to change, in ways that affect the planning and day to day operations of businesses, government agencies and other organisations. The manifestations of climate change include higher temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and more frequent or intense extreme...
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10Beyond the box office, the most powerful message is barely on the screen – a strategic shift in the position of the US, and international business, that has so far gone unnoticed in Australia. While Australia continues to focus on President Bush’s opposition to the...