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climate change australia
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Introduction. The Adaptation Imperative. Climate Change Adaptation and Planning Law. Climate Change Adaptation Litigation. Walker Case. Gippsland Coastal Board Case. Conclusion.
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In acknowledgment of the important contribution nuclear power can make in meeting energy needs and addressing the challenge of climate change, Australia and the United States agree on enhancing bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation and supporting the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). GNEP is a multilateral initiative the United States launched to expand the safe and secure use of zero-carbon emission nuclear energy worldwide.
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The crisis is compounded by extreme weather due to climate change, including drought such as in Australia, one of [the] world's leading agricultural producers where wheat and rice crops have been devastated, and increasingly violent storms such as those that have wreaked havoc in Central America and parts of Asia and other regions in recent years. The worst effect of current policies has been the neglect and undermining of domestic agriculture in developing countries. The change in emphasis in recent decades from domestic production to importing basic grains and processed foods heavily subsidised by governments in the developed world has been driving small farmers out of business practically everywhere. At the international level there should be a reorientation and strengthening of p...
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SYDNEY, Australia - Average temperatures in Sydney will rise by about 9 degrees during the next 65 years, with devastating consequences including 1,300 more heat-related deaths per year, according to a government study released today. With Australia gripped by its worst drought on record, the issue of climate change has emerged as a battleground in this year's national elections.
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Schultz going to China Paul Schultz, Dubuque's resource management coordinator, is traveling to Wuxi, China, on Saturday as part of the Professional Fellows Program. His trip is being coordinated by Kevin Guo, Wuxi's director of investment promotion, who visited Dubuque in April as a Sustainability Fellow. Wuxi, a city of about 800,000, is implementing a variety of resource management and infrastructure plans as China grapples with its own sustainability issues. The debate about climate change is over in Australia. The only remaining questions are how to adapt.
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Environmentalists around the world will be watching Saturday's national election results in Australia, which they say could have a global impact on efforts to combat climate change. There is no doubt that the direction of Australia's national climate-change policy rests on the result of the election," said Kate Cecys, international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
