APO Research

Hardening Australia: Climate change and national disaster resilience
Athol Yates, Anthony Bergin Australian Strategic Policy Institute11 August, 2009 This report warns that as a result of climate change, disasters are likely to become larger, more complex, occur simultaneously and in regions that have either not experienced the natural hazard previously or at the same intensity or frequency.

The economic impact of the CPRS and modifications to the CPRS
Frontier Economics11 August, 2009 This report commissioned by the coalition and Senator Xenophon examines the opportunities to improve the CPRS in terms of lowering the economic costs and, consequently, potentially tightening the emissions target.

Zero-sum game? The human dimensions of emissions trading
Josh Fear, Richard Denniss The Australia Institute17 August, 2009 The Rudd Government is at odds with a majority of Australians in prioritising the needs of business in its climate-change policy, according to this paper by The Australia Institute.

A new climate strategy beyond 2012: lessons from monetary history
Warwick McKibbin Lowy Institute for International Policy12 August, 2009 Warwick McKibbin outlines the key features that are needed in a new climate change framework beyond Kyoto, drawing on lessons from monetary history.