Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Alexander Gillespie, William C. G. Burns

   Pages 1-5

3. The Potential Impacts of Climate Change

   • R. N. Jones, A. B. Pittock, P. H. Whetton

   Pages 7-32

4. The Formation of Australian Climate Change Policy: 1985–1995

   • Harriet Bulkeley

   Pages 33-50

5. Climate Change Policies in Australia

   • Clive Hamilton

   Pages 51-77

6. A Critique of the Australian Government’s Greenhouse Policies

   • Mark Diesendorf

   Pages 79-93

7. Climate Change Policy Formation in Australia: 1995–1998

   • R. Taplin, X. Yu

   Pages 95-112

8. The Australian Position at the Kyoto Conference

   • X. Yu, R. Taplin

   Pages 113-119

9. The Impacts of Climate Change on New Zealand

   • Reid E. Basher

   Pages 121-142

10. New Zealand Climate Policy Between 1990 and 1996: A Greenpeace Perspective

    • Kirsty Hamilton

    Pages 143-163

11. New Zealand and The Climate Change Debate: 1995–1998

    • Alexander Gillespie

    Pages 165-187

12. The Role of Carbon Sequestration as a Response Strategy to Global Warming, with a Particular Focus on New Zealand

    • J. B. Ford-Robertson, J. P. Maclaren, S. J. Wakelin

    Pages 189-207

13. Joint Implementation: A Survey of Principles and Practical Issues

    • Peter Alsop

    Pages 209-231

14. The Impact of Climate Change on Pacific Island Developing Countries in the 21st Century

    • William C. G. Burns

    Pages 233-250

15. Parochialism and Empowerment: Responding to Ecocolonialism and Globalisation in the Southwest Pacific

    • Michael Edwards

    Pages 251-268

16. Climate Change in the Pacific: Science-Based Information and Understanding

    • John Hay

    Pages 269-287

17. How South Pacific Mangroves May Respond to Predicted Climate Change and Sea-level Rise

    • Joanna C. Ellison

    Pages 289-300

18. Back Matter

    Pages 375-387

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ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.G. BURNS The idea for this book grew out of the Ecopolitics conference in Canberra, Australia in 1996. The conference captured the ferment of the climate change debate in the South Pacific, as well as some its potential implications for the region’s inhabitants and e- systems. At that conference, one of the editors (Gillespie) delivered a paper on climate change issues in the region, as did Ros Taplin and Mark Diesendorf, who are also c- tributors to this volume. This book focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand, and the small island nations in the Pacific as the world struggles to cope with possible the impacts of environmental change and to formulate effective responses. While Australia and New Zealand’s per capita emissions of greenhouse gases are among the highest in the world, their aggregate contributions are small. However, both nations may exert a disprop- tionate influence in the global greenhouse debate because their obstinate positions at recent conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on C- mate Change (FCCC) may provide justification for other developed nations, as well as developing countries, to refuse to make meaningful reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.

• Global warming
• Mangrove
• climate change
• ecosystem
• organization

• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  Alexander Gillespie

• Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, USA

  William C. G. Burns

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