Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Australia
Physical Description:
31 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35630
Legacy PEIN ID:
75633
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Human rights
Climate change
Abstract
Climate change will have significant impacts in both Australia and across the globe. Australia is one of the most arid continents in the world. It is vulnerable to risks such as disruptions to water supply; increases in the severity of storms, floods and droughts, coastal erosion due to sea level rise; and to negative human health impacts, for example through an increase in the range and spread of disease.1 The impacts of climate change are also a particular concern in the Asia Pacific region. According to the fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific, which was released in November 2007, 'the human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world's population, around 4 billion people, live'.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Australia
Physical Description:
31 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35630
Legacy PEIN ID:
75633
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 15-Apr-2009
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022