About this Event
Australia has long been considered a climate laggard, presiding over a 'lost decade' of climate policy development. Yet, in 2022, the government passed the Climate Change Bill, indicating a possible change in the attention placed on climate change was afoot. Drawing on primary interviews with policymakers in Australia, policy documents and a secondary data analysis, we seek to explore to what extent the Climate Change Bill has changed domestic climate policy, exploring the question as whether we might now consider it an emergent leader or persistent laggard?
About the Speakers
James Jackson is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at SCI, researching the politics of the electric vehicle transition and the intersection of fiscal, monetary and climate policy. James is the author of an upcoming book 'Driving climate breakdown: how our cars fuel climate politics and the electric vehicle transition' with Cambridge University Press and another entitled 'the environmental cost of the beautiful game: the unsustainably of football' with Manchester University Press.
William Hopkinson is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His PhD research focusses on domestic political processes and the enabling and constraining conditions that shape climate ambition and its change over time. He holds a Master of Geography from the University of Melbourne and a Master of International Politics from KU Leuven.