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Podcast: ASPI Podcast: Policy, Guns & Money
Episode: Climate and National Security, Preventing Radicalisation and a conversation with Katherine Stewart
Description: In April, President Biden held the first Leaders Summit on Climate which saw a number of countries commit to more ambitious reduction targets. Research intern Matthew Page speaks to Associate Professor Matt McDonald from the University of Queensland about Australia’s hesitancy to set a target date for emission reductions, the impacts of climate on Australia’s national security and whether investment in hydrogen and carbon-capture and storage technologies will significantly reduce Australia’s carbon emissions.
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