Peter Christoff is a political scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, where he teaches climate policy and environmental policy. He was formerly a member of the Victorian Premier's Climate Change Reference Group, and of the Victorian Ministerial Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation, under the Victorian Brumby Government. He is also currently a Board member of the Australian Conservation Foundation and was its Vice President for eight years. His recent publications include the books 'Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a hot world' and 'Globalization and the Environment' (with Prof. Robyn Eckersley).
US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia
Sep 05, 2016 05:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
When President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping announced their countries ratification of the Paris climate agreement ahead of last weekends G20 meeting in Hangzhou, they boosted its chances of coming into force by...
The poster is political: how artists are challenging climate change
May 05, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
We all have a poster we remember. Mine was taped to a bookshop window in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran. A stark black and white image of a boy as young as I was then, about 13, stared out at me. He was naked from the...