By Ben McNeil
ISBN-10: 1741757223
ISBN-13: 9781741757224
'A passionate and informative demonstration of ways mitigating weather switch might be appropriate with fiscal progress' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut weather switch Review
'Humanity's maximum problem is to minimise the implications of weather switch. With problem comes chance. This booklet is ready opportunity.' - Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel prize winner
'A attention-grabbing and provocative perception into how enterprise could make the main of the environmental challenge.' - Geoffrey Cousins, enterprise chief and author
The international is in the middle of a seismic shift within the manner we generate power and develop fiscal prosperity. because the first commercial revolution now we have been burning carbon to run our lives, yet weather switch and dwindling offers of oil are actually forging a brand new fresh business revolution with the intention to finish our reliance on carbon for good.
So the place does Australia's fiscal destiny lie during this swiftly altering global? during this compelling ebook, weather scientist and economist Ben McNeil demonstrates the large monetary possibilities on the way to open up if Australia leads the recent fresh commercial revolution. He indicates how making an investment, commercialising and exporting the recent fuels, fabrics and applied sciences for the twenty-first century will advance fiscal prosperity in addition to environmental sustainability.
In an international yearning fresh strength, international locations and companies who're shrewdpermanent and brave adequate to include the swap will thrive.
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What are the climate impacts for our agriculture and exports? Some of these questions can be estimated through economic models. For example, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has modelled the potential impact on Australian agriculture from temperature rises, rainfall changes and weather extremes associated with climate change. ABARE found that, in terms of agricultural production, Australia will be one of the worst affected regions by climate change. Australian wheat, beef, dairy and sugar production could decline by up to 20 per cent by mid-century.
So Ireland has become ultra-wealthy, surpassing virtually all developed nations in wealth while having lower greenhouse intensity than the majority of other developed countries (see Figure 1). Isn’t Australia a resource- and energy-intensive economy in comparison to the world? No. ) provides nearly three-quarters of the nation’s total income,9 while manufacturing and resources provide about 20 per cent. The proportion of manufacturing and heavy industry is no different than in other developed economies and far less than emerging economies.
Other nations invested in gas, wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power in order to move away from oil-fired power stations. Kwinana, however, was rebuilt to run on coal, a much higher CO2 emitter than oil. This was indicative of a much wider Australian shift towards coal after King Faisal’s oil shocks. indd 50 26/2/09 10:18:49 PM Australia’s Carbon Obesity • 51 needs. Coupled with the low-density urban sprawl that has dominated Australian town planning, Australia’s economy has become much more carbon intensive in comparison to all other developed nations.