Power Failure

Power Failure
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Publisher : Black Inc.
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781922231512
ISBN-13 : 1922231517
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Power Failure by : Philip Chubb

Download or read book Power Failure written by Philip Chubb and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of a wicked problem … What should Australia do about climate change? A succession of leaders has tried to answer this question – and come unstuck. Politicians and public servants call it a “wicked” problem – one highly resistant to solution – and many approaches have been developed and discarded by the major parties. Some believe Australia’s dependence on coal makes effective action impossible. In this book, award-winning journalist Philip Chubb examines the tenacity of fossil-fuel interests and their allies in business, politics and the media when their power is challenged. He reveals and analyses the political strategies of prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard as they tried to overcome the obstacles created by Australia’s carbon-intensive economy. This is a dramatic study of leadership replete with new revelations. Using more than 75 interviews with key figures (including Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Greg Combet and Penny Wong), freedom-of-information requests and good old-fashioned leaks, Chubb gives a persuasive account of success and failure in climate policy, and of the strategies that leaders must use in future.

Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law

Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 564
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ISBN-10 : 9781783478446
ISBN-13 : 1783478446
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law by : Panagiotis Delimatsis

Download or read book Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law written by Panagiotis Delimatsis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction between climate change and trade has grown in prominence in recent years. This Research Handbook contains authoritative original contributions from leading experts working at the interface between trade and climate change. It maps the state of affairs in such diverse areas as: carbon credits and taxes, sustainable standard-setting and trade in ‘green’ goods and services or investment, from both a regional and global perspective. Panagiotis Delimatsis redefines the interrelationship of trade and climate change for future scholarship in this area.

Sustainability and Energy Politics

Sustainability and Energy Politics
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9781137352330
ISBN-13 : 1137352337
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sustainability and Energy Politics by : Giorel Curran

Download or read book Sustainability and Energy Politics written by Giorel Curran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy.

Ethics and climate change

Ethics and climate change
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Publisher : IUCN
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9782831717098
ISBN-13 : 2831717094
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

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Download or read book Ethics and climate change written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is the most significant moral and environmental issue of our time. This project seeks to help deepen explicit ethical reflection around the world on national responses to climate change by developing a publicly available record on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change similar to the reports that are now available on national compliance with human rights obligations.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy

Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : 9781802209204
ISBN-13 : 1802209204
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy by : Daniel J. Fiorino

Download or read book Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy written by Daniel J. Fiorino and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and potential solutions to one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century: climate change. With deep intellectual rigour, this Encyclopedia adeptly surveys the nature and application of various international climate change policies.

Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia

Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781000455977
ISBN-13 : 1000455971
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia by : Hans A. Baer

Download or read book Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia written by Hans A. Baer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts, water shortages and raging bushfires, storm surges and flooding, and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labour union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective which calls for "system change, not climate change" as opposed to the conventional approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students and general readers with an interest in climate change and climate activism.

Media and Global Climate Knowledge

Media and Global Climate Knowledge
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781137523211
ISBN-13 : 1137523212
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Media and Global Climate Knowledge by : Risto Kunelius

Download or read book Media and Global Climate Knowledge written by Risto Kunelius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key element in the transnational communication infrastructure of climate politics. It examines variations of coverage in different countries and locations all over the world. It looks at how IPCC scientists review the role of media, reflects on how media relate to decision-making structures and cultures, analyzes how key journalists reflect on the challenges of covering climate change, and shows how the message of IPCC was distributed in the global networks of social media.