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Ex-Liberal minister to lead Climate Change Authority | The Canberra Times | Canberra…

1 · Former NSW Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean has been named the new chair of the federal government''s Climate Change Authority. Mr Kean, who quit state politics earlier this month, will lead the ...

Urban forest responses to climate change: A case study in Canberra

Canberra was chosen as the study site because of detectable changes in the climate and the large area of urban forest. The average temperature in Canberra has risen by 1 °C since the 1950s, and rainfall has decreased slightly over the last 100 years, with a more obvious drying trend from 1996 (Jacobs et al., 2014).

Beliefs and denials about climate change: An Australian perspective

Although most Australians believe that climate change is occurring, they are split on their stated beliefs about the causes of climate change. The view that climate change is caused solely by natural fluctuations in Earth''s temperatures appears to be widely held, and those who hold this view differ both from those who reject climate change outright and those …

Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Network

Welcome to the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Network (CCARRN) at the University of Canberra. Beginning as a taskforce in response to the 2019/20 Black …

Climate change and health in Earth''s future

Climate change will increase migration, potentially exposing migrants to endemic diseases for which they have limited resistance, transporting diseases and fostering conditions conducive to disease transmission. Specific predictions of timing and locations of migration remain elusive, hampering planning and misaligning needs and infrastructure.

Centre for Environmental Governance

The Centre for Environmental Governance (CEG) is a vibrant new research centre located within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law (BGL) at the University of Canberra. Increasingly, complex environmental problems such as water management, natural disasters and climate change demand applied policy approaches by collaborative teams of ...

UC Professor: COP26 will shape our global future

Kalyx Jorgensen 1 November 2021: The UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021 (COP26) kicked off in Glasgow overnight, watched closely by the world – and University of Canberra Professor Barbara Norman says that this summit will set the trajectory for a global

ACT Climate Change Council

The ACT Climate Change Council provides advice to the Minister for Water, Energy and Emissions Reduction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate …

The climate change–homelessness nexus — University of Canberra …

Climate change affects human health and wellbeing 1 with differential impacts on populations and regions. For example, climate change disproportionally affects girls and women and can amplify conflict and violence in resource-deprived environments. 2 The …

Climate change: an Australian guide to the science and potential impacts

Abstract. This book is based on the Australia and New Zealand Chapter in the Working Group II volume of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IIPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR), but also includes conclusions from the Working Group I volume and extracts from other IPCC documents. [It also includes] substantial edited abstracts ...

Still fighting for climate change resilience: UC''s Professor Emerita …

CURF (the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures) has provided outreach to Canberra and the region''s communities on critical issues like sustainable …

Climate Change and Global health: A new conceptual framework

N2 - Climate change''s burden of disease seems orders of magnitude too low to justify claims that it is this century''s greatest threat to health. However, such claims can be more easily understood by considering how climate change acts as a risk multiplier, compounding pre-existing socially and politically-mediated drivers of adverse health …

ACT Climate Change Strategy

The ACT Climate Change Strategy is helping our city reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate change. The strategy will help us: build resilience to climate …

Climate change in the ACT region | AdaptNSW

Climate change in the ACT region. Key points. The ACT contains Australia''s capital city – Canberra, which is home to nearly 400,000 people. Canberra also serves as a regional …

ACT CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY 2019–25 SUMMARY

The ACT''s climate change response is urgent, ambitious, collaborative, equitable, innovative and integrated, and is informed by an understanding that the world is in a …

Nature Connectedness in the Climate Change Context: Implications for Climate Action and Mental Health

We used national survey data collected after a severe Australian bushfire season (N = 3,875) to test a path model of the relationships between nature connectedness, worry about climate change, individual and collective climate action, and psychological

Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems. The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology puzzling, the impacts devastating, the interactions ...

Climate Change Jobs in All Canberra ACT

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UC home to HEAL Global Research Centre, leading research excellence in climate change, environment and health

Emma Larouche 26 March 2024: The University of Canberra launched the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre today, which takes a global approach to address the health risks of climate change …

Canberra acts ''first'' in the climate emergency | ANU Institute for Climate…

On Monday, the ACT government released its Climate Change Strategy 2019-2025, just a few months after declaring a climate emergency in May, the first Australian state or territory to do so. The document contains several more Australian "firsts," reflecting the government''s desire to lead climate action.

2022 Annual Progress Report | Climate Change Authority

The first annual progress advice report on how Australia is tracking toward its emissions reduction targets was tabled in Parliament on 1 December 2022. 2022 Annual Progress Advice Report The first annual progress advice report on how Australia is tracking toward

Why is Canberra so cold? And how might climate change affect …

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, in winter Canberra''s average warmest temperature sits at around 12.6 degrees Celsius. That''s compared to an average …

Building a better future: UC experts come together to tackle …

16 July 2021: The University of Canberra has launched the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Network (CCARRN), a network of knowledge, expertise and …

Climate Change

Climate change explained. Global warming continues to increase the surface temperature of our planet. As a result, we are seeing more frequent and extreme weather events all …

Be Prepared: Climate Change and the ACT Bushfire Threat

Residents of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have experienced the serious consequences of bushfires. in 2003 large and uncontrollable fires devastated several suburbs in Canberra, claiming five lives and destroying over 500 properties. Australians have always lived with fire and its consequences, but climate change is increasing fire …

Climate change likely to outpace species adaptation

Climate change likely to outpace species adaptation. Libby Roberts. 24 February 2021: University of Canberra Research Fellow Dr Joanne Bennett has discovered that many species will be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies fast enough to respond to rapid global warming.

Approaching climate change in an evolving Canberra landscape

Canberra is experiencing growing pains and we need to tap into the ACT''s robust policy framework to inform development projects and address the impact of climate change in the Bush Capital. Inner city renewal programs are great, but greening efforts and less eradication of the natural vegetation are essential to safeguarding the natural …

Why is Canberra so cold? And how might climate change affect …

In short: Canberra is Australia''s coldest capital city on average, beating even Hobart despite being further north. Climate science professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick says Canberra''s cold weather ...

State of the Climate 2022

Australia''s climate has warmed by an average of 1.47 ± 0.24 °C since national records began in 1910. Sea surface temperatures have increased by an average of 1.05 °C since 1900. This has led to an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events over land and sea. There has been a decline of around 15 per cent in April to October …

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