Exploring climate change discourses across five Australian federal elections

Hytten, Karen F.

doi:10.1080/00323187.2022.2048398

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“…Hytten [50] noted that climate change was introduced as a key election issue in the 2007, 2010, and 2019 elections in Australia, which implied substantial media coverage of climate change issues before elections. Hudson [51] noted that, in terms of energy and climate policy, Australia experienced dramatic changes between 2006 and 2018.…”

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Temporal Stability of Attitudes towards Climate Change and Willingness to Pay for the Emissions Reduction Options in Queensland, Australia

Williams

2023

Energies

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Citizens’ attitudes towards and their perceptions of climate change are widely believed to influence citizens’ actions related to climate change. Knowledge of these attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental improvement can be useful in designing an environmental policy. Although citizens’ attitudes and perceptions are likely to affect their WTP, they are rarely included in the non-market valuation. Furthermore, over time, attitudes and perceptions of environmental issues are likely to change. An understanding of temporal stability of attitudes towards climate change could shed the light on changes in citizens’ WTP for environmental quality over time. This study examined changes in perceptions, attitudes, and actions towards climate change using two surveys in Queensland, Australia. The surveys were administered 10 years apart (2009 and 2018). The effect of attitudes over time on WTP was analysed using a contingent valuation (CV) method. The results confirmed that attitudes and perceptions of climate change were important factors affecting actions of respondents. Furthermore, over time, some attitudes and perceptions changed significantly. However, only some attitudes and perceptions were significant predictors of consumers’ WTP for a change in environmental quality.

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Temporal Stability of Attitudes towards Climate Change and Willingness to Pay for the Emissions Reduction Options in Queensland, Australia

Williams

2023

Energies

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“…Although climate concern is increasing (Neumann et al, 2022), and the issue has gained prominence in electoral politics (Tana, 2022), Australia is among the worst in the Global North on climate action (Flannery et al, 2021). This delay in action has often been driven by climate policy opponents (largely stemming from the political right) who have regularly proposed that climate action would negatively impact the Australian economy (Hytten, 2021), as well as livelihoods, holiday activities, and ways of life (Lamb et al, 2020;Remeikis, 2019). We examine Australians' ideological attitudes, and their concerns about climate policy threatening the existing socioeconomic and sociocultural systems, as barriers to acceptance of climate change.…”

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A cross-sectional and experimental test of a climate policy systems threat account of climate change denial

Clarke,

Stanley,

Klas

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Right-wing adherents are more likely to deny climate change and less likely to support climate mitigation policy than their left-wing counterparts. Correlational evidence suggests that this denial might be motivated by a need to preserve the existing socioeconomic system and cultural norms and values against threats from climate change mitigation policies. We further interrogate this motivated threat account. Study 1 (N = 451) showed positive indirect effects for the conventionalism and dominance dimensions of right-wing ideology on climate change denial via socioeconomic and sociocultural mitigation threat perceptions, partially replicating U.S. cross-sectional research in an Australian context. We experimentally manipulated these mitigation threat types in Study 2 (N = 778), finding no differences between threat conditions and a no message control on climate change denial (and mitigation policy support) across levels of right-wing ideology endorsement. Our findings cast some doubt on the motivated threat account of climate change denial. Threat-based arguments against climate policy action do not appear to reduce climate change acceptance and mitigation policy support among right-wing adherents, suggesting that prevailing ideological beliefs and existing beliefs about climate policy may be more important than threat-based messaging.

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Aligning adaptation and sustainability agendas: lessons from protected areas

Múnera-Roldán,

Colloff,

Pittock

et al. 2024

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Nations worldwide are committing to international environmental agreements and defining aspirational goals aligned with their sustainable development priorities and responsibilities. The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is an example of such aspirations. Under this framework, nations aim to expand protected areas or create new ones as one way to integrate conservation and climate change agendas. However, implementing those high-level agreements does not necessarily align with local realities and dynamics. In this paper we examined the operational challenges experienced by protected areas actors to adapt conservation strategies to climate change. Based on interviews at the local level and a policy analysis, we identify adaptation narratives and explore potential mismatches in their implementation at the national and local level (protected areas) in three countries: Australia, Colombia, and South Africa. We assess how local visions and interpretations of adaptation align with high-level policies and how existing institutional arrangements facilitate or constrain the implementation of adaptation and, therefore, aspirations for long-term sustainability. We found that adaptation narratives at the local level are framed by common ideas and identities based on local relations within a territory. At the same time, existing governance arrangements and political contexts determine the feasibility of adaptation. The primary mismatches are high-level political and economic interests denoting different interpretations about the territory and of local realities, including the readiness, technical, and resource capacity of protected areas actors to implement adaptation. Place-based adaptation provides a common ground for scaling adaptation. However, scaling adaptation requires enabling institutional contexts, clear rules and policies to facilitate deliberations and coordinated responses across different actors and sectors, while guiding the uptake and integration of local needs and realities within national agendas.

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Exploring climate change discourses across five Australian federal elections

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Temporal Stability of Attitudes towards Climate Change and Willingness to Pay for the Emissions Reduction Options in Queensland, Australia

Temporal Stability of Attitudes towards Climate Change and Willingness to Pay for the Emissions Reduction Options in Queensland, Australia

A cross-sectional and experimental test of a climate policy systems threat account of climate change denial

Aligning adaptation and sustainability agendas: lessons from protected areas

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