Climate change has been centre stage this week in Australian politics, with careers being made and lost over the best ways to counter its effects.
The other ‘hot’ issue, asylum seekers, took a back seat for a few days, but will no doubt be back on page one soon and will focus on how to stop [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Climate change’
December 5, 2009
Stop squabbling over Emissions Trading or we will be flooded by climate refugees
July 31, 2009
75 million climate refugees – and they don’t want to come to Australia
The ABC Frontline program reported this week that climate change could produce 75 million refugees in the Asia Pacific region in the next 40 years. 2. 75 million to flee climate change: report
The island nations of the Asia Pacific are in the front line of climate change –the Torres Strait and Pacific Island nations Tuvalu, [...]
February 19, 2009
Refugees, climate and economics: Guterres
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres briefed the UN Security Council last week about the increasing pressures on the UNHCR.
IN 2006, when Guterres last briefed the Security Council, refugee numbers were the lowest they had been in 25 years. This has changed dramatically, with numbers now at 11 million.
Guterres said that this has mostly [...]
February 9, 2009
Victoria burns
More than 100 killed in one day. Thousands abandoning their homes. Many hundreds of homes destroyed. Thousands injured.
Could be any war zone. But it is the result of one day of bushfire in Victoria, south eastern Australia.
February 8, 2009
Who will take Australian refugees?
This news came on top of what has been nearly two weeks of absurd temperatures of up to 46 degrees in Adelaide, with co many heat-related deaths that the city morgue could no longer cope, on top of little or no rain for many months. I began to wonder if the time was coming when we Australians would become the unthinkable: refugees from climate change.
