AIP107: Australia's Controversial Climate Change Policies

This essay investigates the contentious nature of climate change policy in Australia, focusing on the political and social obstacles that have hindered effective action. The author highlights the absence of a systematic climate governance structure and the impact of internal political factors and governmental policy weaknesses. It examines how debates about scientific uncertainty and economic costs have influenced the Federal Government's response. The essay discusses the interplay between various groups, media, and government stances, revealing conflicting views and the government's challenges in implementing policies. The research emphasizes the need for comprehensive regimes that meet standards of coherence and accountability. It concludes by emphasizing the need for increased public awareness to facilitate effective climate change mitigation efforts, and the challenges in achieving consensus due to divergent perceptions and interests.

“WHY HAS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY BEEN SO CONTROVERSIAL IN
AUSTRALIA?”
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Executive Summary
In Australia, there is no systematic climatic governing body which limit the extension of the
climatic changes. However, the plight to reduce the climatic changes as it witnessed in the most
research generally outlines some of the key issues which lies within the Australia to eradicate the
unbearable sequential weather pattern. Most of the problems which hinder the Australia policy
are nothing other than abolition of the policy. Variation of the climatic in Australia posed a great
threat to common individuals who were living within the Australia. Precisely, variation of the
climatic condition in the Australia has been met by various challenges which were contributed by
the internal factors as well as bad governing due to the poor policy. Therefore, through research
which was done by the international bodies laid some fundamental procedures aspects on
curbing or reducing some of the activities which escalates the climatic changes in Australia.
Therefore, the essay depicts some controversial issues which marred the eradication of the
climatic changes. This will draw attention into some of the internal effort as well as external
policies which have got a parallel idea based on the eradication of the climatic variation
(Gemenne, 2011.p.67). Generally, the essay also stabilized the mechanism which was put by
individuals help Australia government to reduce global warming which results due to variations
of the temperature.
Introduction
In the last two decades, Australia government have struggled to craft a strong, integrated and a
systematic system in handling climate change in Australia. This was so due to unbearable
climatic condition which extremely had negative effects on human activities as well as
devastating effects of the Australia individuals in the 21 century (Painter & Ashe, 2012.p.234). It
was noted how the Australians’ temperature is snowballing at a constant rate which was noticed

at approximate of the 0.9 degree Celsius since the late nineteen ninety-five. Therefore, it has
crippled with drought which became an unbearable issue during the winter but though it was
summer. Based on the problems which surfaced Australian, that is the implication of the
unpredictable weather pattern revealed struggled nature of government in the mid to prevent the
problem which affects the Australian. However, their effort has yielded a different regulatory
system in handling climatic changes (Scott, 2011.p.27).Therefore, thesis will illustrates the
editorial and opinion space dedicated to scientific uncertainty about climate change and the
economic costs of Australia influences an important role in allowing the Federal Government
response to appear mainstream and rational (Antilla, 2010.p.1245).
Discussions
Australia was at high risk due to constant variation in the climatic condition which was accorded
of late. However, the main problem which surrounds Australian temperature variation regulation
were simply the difficulties in eradication of the temperature which was noticed to be marred
with various issues. More importantly, factors which affect the climatic condition are
characterized by the internal politics as well as some of the laxity of the government laws which
were put in consideration to curb the problems of the climatic changes in Australia. Therefore,
due to the various challenges stated above, Australia suffers so painfully on the sudden variation
of the climatic condition which results into unbearable weather condition like one of the summer
though it was at the eve of the winter (Bruns & Burgess, 2011.p.109). However, one of the
Surprising factors to many especially the international bodies, was thta no any politician or the
government official concerned with the situation (Adger & Barnett, 2009.p.78). Therefore, the
variation of climate was a major factors which not only affects the economy of the Australia but
it also affects the social set up of the Australia individuals.

First, variation of the climatic condition is a problem which should be met by different
individuals if not only the government thus it diverse in task as well as the structure, this is
evident by Collins and Ison (2009) on Jumping off Arnstein's ladder: social learning as a new
policy paradigm for climate change adaptation. Environmental Policy and Governance, in his
hypothesis he also illustrates the variation of the climatic changes which is due to negligence of
individuals as well as the government. Thus, the implication of the variation in temperature
especially in the Australia its solution relies on three forces that is the distribution of the interest,
solving of the uncertainties as well as considering priorities in handling the situation of the
temperature. This factor help Australia a lot in accounting for the climatic outcomes by the
government institutions. Therefore, through the research based on the policy of the Australia
government on the action illustrates some of the climatic challenges that was quite clear that
there exist pressing opposing issues which smother the policies which were in line to reduce the
global warming. However, the policies which we made were diluted with politics thus no
individuals to draft some of the possible solution which of the benefit to Australia in maintaining
the condition of climatic condition. It goes without doubt that common citizen as well as the
government official payless attention in searching way and means in reducing the rate of the
violation of the environment which result into global warming. The research has it that, majority
of the policies which were made are complicated and non-adaptable thus subjected to a violation.
However, the government also failed to structured flexibles laws which aim to promote the
invention and innovation strategists to manage the forest, accommodation of border policy as
well as cooperation on the technology policy. Finding based on the solution of the global
warming and the ozone depletion if fully followed, then they Australia likely to improve the
environment matters (Gupta, 2010.p.234). Therefore, for the improvement of the environment,

then there must be clear and elusive comprehensive regime which meets the standard of
coherence, accountability, determinacy as well as fairness in the application of the law
(Chakrabarty, 2009.p.245).
Secondly, based on the research which was done in Australia displays interplay that is between
the Lavoisier group, the media and the stances of the federal government due to the laxity on the
eminences of the climatic changes in Australia. It was evident that there exists controversy idea
based on policies which were enacted to reduce the climatic changes in Australia. Due to this
parallel opinions brought a hockey stick opinion debates about the stance of the government on
the issue of the environment. It is quite evident that the blame game was cynical such that each
group had an argument based on what they feel should have been done (Sarewitz, 2011.p.234).
The argument in the Australian based on the natural variability is given followed by an analysis
which differentiates between the regional climates as well as warming. The argument has it all
that the government failed to provide a proper means in managing the spell of harsh climatic
condition in the counties. The devastating effects of the climatic condition of Australia were felt
much intense just the other year which draw attention from other nation thus advocated for a
proper means of the eradication of it menace (Kates, Travis & Wilbank, 2012.p.567).
Thirdly, approximately three-quarters of the Australia research portrayed as the key factors in
derailing the government in the mid to reduce the intensity of the climate changes in the regions.
This is explained by the research hypothesis of Kiem (2013) on Drought and water policy in
Australia: Challenges for the future illustrated by the issues associated with water trading and
climate change adaptation in the Murray–Darling Basin. Global Environmental Change. The
research tabled it that not all were opposed but the subsection of the population who are ignorant
thus their activities result in climatic changes such global warming (Collins & Ison, 2009.p.234).

Similarly, some groups especially in the Australians actually support the hash action which
should be imposed on the individuals who cut down the trees and participating on other activities
which result into escalation of the climatic condition in the regions. Due to this divergent
opinions based on the escalation of the climatic condition, the data was taken which clearly
showed that approximately 16% of the people who were from the liberal party have their full
support on the government to take action on the rise of the climatic changes which results due to
their economic activities. However, in comparison to the views of labour has 59% as well as
green supporters who stand at a chance of the highest percentage of 79% who faithfully stand
behind the government support for the sudden rise of the climatic changes. Therefore, the
minority of the individual do not support the government legislation which was rendered on the
people based on their activities which they do which were parallel to the preservation of the
environment. One of the identified activities which were seen as a major factor that cultivates the
drought were the rise in the ozone layer depletion which resulted due to cutting of the trees for
charcoal as well as cutting trees then transporting them for commercial purpose was evident as a
major factor. Therefore based on the different opinion in distinct ages of the 18 to 44 believed
that global warming is a threat factor to their health as opposed to averages ages above the
estimation believed that global warming there natural climatic changes which are constituted
with an erosion of the culture (Mees, 2009.p.123).
Conclusion and recommendation
In recap, as explained above it is clear that it is not easy for the Australian government to come
up with a structured procedure to implement which can reduce the rise of the climatic change due
to existing a group people with wrong perception on the environment matters. Therefore, unless
the people become more aware of the threats which are contributed by the climatic variation then

the government can implement any rules and regulation which can control escalation of the
climatic condition. It would appear that the argument advanced by the Lavoisier Group as well as
paralleled in The Australian in particular, was useful in making the federal government appear
prudent, rational, mainstream, and practical. Behind petitions to the national interest, the Central
Government has cancelled any operative action on plummeting Australia’s spiraling energy
discharges, which has mired the development of Australia’s unexperienced renewable energy
sector. This initials research illustrates on the importance of the analyzing greater depth of
various arguments enhanced by different Group, and enduring sturdy into the connections
between Group and the media, and the insinuations for the position and policies of the central
Government on climate variation. Therefore these policy of the assessments are continuous thus
they engage both the researchers as well as users to evaluates, determined and analyses the
information form various discipline. Therefore, based on the general aim of the controversy
opinion on the climatic variation on the Australia, it is quite evident that national as well as the
regional climate variation vulnerability and the adaptation evaluation aims at introducing a
common approach for assessing reporting uncertainties of the climatic challenges. Therefore,
this essay researches some of the rules which have been realized by the institution to end the
climatic variation of Australia. Thus the essay analyses procedural effort of the government of
Australia in explaining some of the rules patterning the managing of the climatic nature.
Therefore, in the case of the climatic variation, the structural and interest diversity inherent in
contemporary world politics manages to yield the introduction of the system of the government
policy which is more comprehensive (Speck, 2010.p.456). Based on the explained argument, it is
so clear to deduce that in managing the climatic changes in Australia has been an issue of doubts
since there is no clear framework and procedure which has been set in place to curb the problem

(Weber &Peters, 2009.p.2345). This is marked by the laxity of the government to channel a
proper means in identifying some of the core issues of effects of the temperature, which affect
individuals. Since this is international issues, the focus of the essay was mainly on the internal
body interest in ending the variations of the climatic changes. It also weigh the rules which were
made to ease the problems of the climatic changes. Therefore, the main argument of the essay
illustrates the editorial and opinion space dedicated to scientific uncertainty about climate change
and the economic costs of Australia influences an important role in allowing the Federal
Government response to appear mainstream and rational (Antilla, 2010.p.1245). Thus institution
persists on mechanism efforts which are put in place in identifying some of the technical
problems which are associated with the climatic variation. Similarly, essay also outlined the
difficulties which derailed the international bodies to come up with proper channel since the
policy which was delivered by the Donald trumps in the parish was a little bit unwelcoming to
the Australia government. It has been noticed that the climatic changes in Australia are
increasing at an alarming rate as compared to neighboring countries. Some of the issues which
surfaced the problems of the Australians were characterized by the internal policies which are
implemented by the government but is opposed by the individuals. This is so since research
which was done recently suggest that climatic condition of the Australians stands at danger since
during winter the escalation of the climatic change as a witness to have increased at an alarming
rate as compared other nation. In summary, it is clearly that most of the activities of the
Australians decent, that is the main economic activities of the Australian, which is characterized
by the coals that associates with high energy makes it possible to pollutes the environment since
this is so especially times of it uses due to the fact that it is the sources of the fuel in the country
(Schäfer, Ivanova & Schmidt, 2014.p.356).

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