GOVT2228 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neoliberalism, Carbon Price, Theodore Wells Pietsch Iii

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT2228
• Professor: Robert MacNeil

Document Summary

Described as the petri-dish of climate change, australia"s unique national climate policy reflects a range of political, economic, cultural and/or geopolitical factors that has impacted its success in managing its global-warming future. The rising stock of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere has already caused the world to warm by more than half a degree, calling for national reductions in emissions and innovations in energy production (scott, 2008, pp. With only 0. 3% of the world"s population, australia is the world"s highest per capita producer of co2 emissions, at. At a national level climate change will cut revenues, raise spending needs, change physical geography and alter the basic elements of. Reflecting the unique characteristics of the australian environment movement and organisational and parliamentary strategies, australia"s national climate policy is largely about reducing these risks, within national concerns. From an objective and constructivist perspective, success can be defined as the achievement of intended goals without any significant criticism (mcconnell, 2010, pp. 35i).