David Holmes

Former Associate Professor, Climate Change Communication Research Hub

Biography

David is a political analyst, social theorist and media scholar. He's was the Director of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub until December 2023.

articles

Australia’s Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Chris Bowen, addresses the COP27 conference.

What has Australia achieved at COP27?

In what is the first COP since Labor took office in May this year, there are positive signs of Australia picking up its game on climate policy.

Environment

COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt world cloud

COP27: Rich nations fail to cough up for climate change

The pledge of the rich nations just before COP26 to provide $100 billion per year for the developing world to combat climate change is yet to be realised at COP27.

Environment

How old is too old?

If we get a drug for every disease and we put people on a cocktail of drugs when they're 70 years old so that they can live to 110 instead of 100, is that a good thing or not?

A Different Lens

Federal election 2022: The rise of the climate voter

Climate change has emerged as a major election issue for voters, but still the major parties are excluding it from their campaign platforms – at their peril.

Politics and society

Putting climate change literacy on the education agenda

There are things we need to unlearn, learn and relearn about conditions for living together on this planet in just, equitable and sustainable ways.

A Different Lens

Drawing of hands under planet Earth comprised of environmentally-related words

COP26: The need for speed looms large on the list for climate action

Australia’s climate policy can learn much from our experience of COVID-19, as it’s a case study in the importance of swift collective action during a global crisis.

Environment