Energy Policy and Regional Cooperation: Australia’s Contribution to Low Carbon Green Growth Initiatives

The existing evidence strongly supports the view that economic activities in the past century or so have contributed to the climate change and that the concentration of the level of Green House Gas emissions in the world has increased, contributing to global warming. Considering such evidence the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requested all developed countries including Australia take action to reduce Green House Gas emissions and helped developing countries to do the same. Australia is rich in diverse energy resources. It has large resources of coal that are used for low-cost domestic electricity production, as well as for export.