Equity in Response to Climate Change roundtable

This roundtable on 26 March 2007, hosted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence with the Australian Conservation Foundation, the National Welfare Rights Network and The Climate Institute, considered how Australia could ensure that climate change and measures to counter global warming do not worsen social inequality.

Report and papers

Brotherhood of St Laurence 2007, Equity in response to climate change roundtable full report, June 2007, (PDF file, 669 KB)

Other roundtable papers are available below:

Tony Nicholson, Brotherhood of St Laurence Introductory speech (PDF file, 15 KB)

National Institute of Economic and Industry Research (NIEIR) The impact of carbon prices on Victorian and Australian households prepared for the Brotherhood of St Laurence May 2007 (PDF file, 319 KB) (Note: at the roundtable a preliminary version of the paper was delivered. Please do not quote the outdated preliminary version; we have provided it for archival purposes.)

Gill Owen, Warwick University, Equity and climate change – UK and EU experience (PDF file, 69 KB)

Justin Sherrard and Alan Tate, Cambiar, An Australian snapshot (PDF file, 229 KB) [also in report]

Olga Havnen, Northern Land Council, Equity in response to climate change: an Indigenous perspective (PDF file, 63 KB)

Alex Gordon, Australian Conservation Foundation, Ensuring environmental action is economically efficient and socially equitable (PDF file, 140 KB)