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  • Climate change: After activism

    Martin Wolf got my weekend off to a dreadful start. I read his latest FT column ( Why the World Faces Climate Chaos ) on Friday, and it's been on my mind ever since. Wolf is hardly the first to lay out the reasons why climate change is such a diabolical policy problem. But if, like me, you have...
    20 May 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • China and the Arctic: What's the fuss?

    For a few hours this evening Australian time, media outlets from around the world will zoom in on Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city of 18,000 inhabitants and host to the Arctic Council ministerial meeting. The foreign ministers of the eight Arctic Council member states – Canada, Denmark, Finland,...
    15 May 2013
    By
    Linda Jakobson

  • No, Europe's ETS definitely doesn't work

    Roger Pielke Jr is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. Here's his initial post on this topic . After the European parliament voted down a proposal to prop up its flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS), most observers finally admitted what has been obvious for a...
    30 April 2013
    By
    Guest blogger

  • So, Europe's ETS works after all?

    Last Monday's Interpreter piece from Environmental Studies Professor Roger Pielke Jr was one of a number of commentaries in the international media arguing that Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS) had essentially failed as a mechanism for reducing carbon emissions. Now I see that there's been...
    29 April 2013
    By
    Sam Roggeveen

  • Europe's ETS: Good branding, poor substance

    Roger Pielke Jr is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. Last week, in a surprise to many, the European parliament defeated a proposal to postpone the auctioning of emissions permits, a move that would have propped up prices in the bloc's carbon market, known as the EU...
    22 April 2013
    By
    Guest blogger
  • Commentary

    We stood by the U.S. as it erred grievously in Iraq

    In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove examines the costs of the war in Iraq to the United States and the implications for the Australia-US alliance.
    19 April 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Dr Michael Fullilove

  • Fragile shifts in carbon tech and diplomacy

    John Connor is CEO of the Climate Institute . As John Howard put it, the period from 2005 to 2007 represented a 'perfect storm' for climate action. Domestically, bushfires, water shortages in capital cities and calls from leading businesses for long, loud and legal carbon pricing built pressure...
    26 March 2013
    By
    Guest blogger
  • Cairo airport

    Consular conundrum: the rising demands and diminishing means for assisting Australians overseas

    Australians are travelling more than ever. In 2012, they took more than eight million trips overseas, more than double the number a decade ago. Public expectations of the assistance government can provide when travellers encounter trouble are rapidly rising, fuelled by intense media and political...
    26 March 2013
    Policy Briefs
    By
    Alex Oliver
  • Commentary

    Consular services in death spiral as trivial demands increase

    In an opinion piece in The Australian, Research Fellow Alex Oliver writes that a huge increase in overseas travel by Australians is putting unsustainable pressure on Australia’s consular services. This comes at a time with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is stretched to the limit...
    26 March 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Alex Oliver
  • Commentary

    Foreign service remains vastly underfunded

    In an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, Dr Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver argue that as Australians look ahead to a federal election in September, they should be asking tough questions of both major parties about the funding of their foreign policies.
    22 February 2013
    Commentary
    By
    Dr Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver

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