Recently, Australia’s integration into a new security alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom, based around Australian acquisition of nuclear submarines, has highlighted the important role Australia plays in questions of global security. From an Australian perspective, this AUKUS alliance highlights how the existential threat of climate change is still treated as entirely separate from hard questions of military security. Australia has long been identified as a global ‘villain’ of climate policy, and yet pressure from Australia’s closest allies has failed to shame the federal government into substantial policy change.
This seminar asks how it is that this separation continues to inform western diplomacy and policy, and what that says about prospects for the kind of ‘good’ global governance that underpins agreements like the Paris Accords and action to deliver on Goals 13 and 16 in the UN Global Agenda.
Panellists Dr
Emma Shortis Research Fellow, European Union Centre of Excellence
Social and Global Studies Centre
RMIT University, Australia
Professor
Benjamin Cashore Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
Associate Professor
Robbie Guevara RMIT University, Australia
President of the International Council of Adult Education
Professor
Bruce Wilson Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence
RMIT University, Australia
Visiting Professor of Education, University of Glasgow
When Wednesday 27 OCTOBER 2021 7pm - 8pm Melbourne time (AEDT)
Where Online Cost Free RSVP Required Here Flyer See below
