Associate Professor Peter Christoff teaches in the School of Geography. A political scientist by training, his research and teaching concentrate on aspects of climate politics and policy, and environmental policy.

His recent work focuses on the implication of climate change for the welfare state, for finance and investment, and for biodiversity conservation. He has written about Australian climate mitigation politics, international climate negotiations and the United Nations climate treaty process, on globalization and the environment, on the Green State, and on ecological citizenship. His work is policy-oriented, and he has had involvement in national and sub-national climate policy processes. He was formerly a member of the Victorian Premier's Climate Change Advisory Group, and the Ministerial Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation. Previously he was the Assistant Commissioner for the Environment in Victoria, and Vice-President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the journal Environmental Politics.

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How geoengineering scenarios frame assumptions and create expectations

Peter Christoff's selected work

Digital Poverty In A Competitive Metering Landscape: Enhancing Participation In The New En..

Internal Research Grant

New report shows world is awash with fossil fuels. It's time to cut off supply

NEWS ARTICLE

Geoengineering governance-by-default: an earth system governance perspective

Journal article

Labor's reset on climate and jobs is a political mirage

NEWS ARTICLE

Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: a South African climate change case st..

Journal article

Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis

NEWS ARTICLE

Projects

Displaying the most recent project by Peter Christoff.

Digital Poverty In A Competitive Metering Landscape: Enhancing Participation In The New Energy Economy

2016 - 2017

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 48 most recent scholarly works by Peter Christoff.

How geoengineering scenarios frame assumptions and create expectations

Anita Talberg, Sebastian Thomas, Peter Christoff, David Karoly

Journal article | 2018 | Sustainability Science

Geoengineering governance-by-default: an earth system governance perspective

Anita Talberg, Peter Christoff, Sebastian Thomas, David Karoly

Journal article | 2018 | International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: a South African climate change case study

Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Bronwen Morgan, Kim Coetzee, Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2017 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Equitable mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement goals (vol 7, pg 38, 2017)

Yann Robiou du Pont, M Louise Jeffery, Johannes Gutschow, Joeri Rogelj, Peter Christoff, Malte Meinshausen

Journal article | 2017 | Nature Climate Change

Equitable mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement goals

Yann Robiou du Pont, M Louise Jeffery, Johannes Guetschow, Joeri Rogelj, Peter Christoff, Malte Meinshausen

Journal article | 2017 | Nature Climate Change

Australia's sustainable energy transition: The disjointed politics of decarbonisation

Bevan Warren, Peter Christoff, Donna Green

Journal article | 2016 | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

National contributions for decarbonizing the world economy in line with the G7 agreement

Yann Robiou du Pont, M Louise Jeffery, Johannes Guetschow, Peter Christoff, Malte Meinshausen

Journal article | 2016 | Environmental Research Letters

The promissory note: COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2016 | Environmental Politics

Renegotiating nature in the Anthropocene: Australia's environment movement in a time of crisis

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2016 | Environmental Politics

No island is an island: security in a Four Degree World

PA Christoff, RW Eckersley

Book Chapter | 2014

Climate Discourse Complexes, National Climate Regimes and Australian Climate Policy

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2013 | Australian Journal of Politics & History

Globalization and the Environment

PA Christoff, RW Eckersley

Book | 2013

Comparing State Responses

P Christoff, R Eckersley

Book Chapter | 2012

Comparing State Responses

PA Christoff, RW Eckersley

Book Chapter | 2011

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society presents an analysis of this issue that draws on the best thinking on questions ..

Touching the void: The Garnaut Review in the chasm between climate science, economics and politics

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2010 | Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions

Cold climate in Copenhagen: China and the United States at COP15

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2010 | ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

An inconvenient truth (2006) (Directed by Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore, paramount pictures, USA): Review symposium

J Barnett, P Christoff, H Rangan, E Sutherland

Journal article | 2009 | Geographical Research

An Inconvenient Truth: Review Symposium

J BARNETT, P CHRISTOFF, undefined RANGAN, undefined SUTHERLAND

Journal article | 2009 | Geographical Research

Ecological modernization, ecological modernities

P CHRISTOFF

Book Chapter | 2009

If not now, then when?

PA Christoff

Book Chapter | 2009

A south seas carbon bubble Australia and a near-pacific regional climate pact

P Christoff

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law

Towards a New Global Climate Treaty: Looking Beyond 2012

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2008 | Political Science

The Bali roadmap: Climate change, COP 13 and beyond

Peter Christoff

Journal article | 2008 | Environmental Politics

Aiming High: On Australia’s Emissions Reduction Targets

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2008 | University of New South Wales Law Journal

Building Our Own Asteroid

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2008 | Arena Magazine

Places worth keeping? Climate change, heritage and governance

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2008 | Historic Environment

The Bali Roadmap and Beyond

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2008 | Arena Magazine

A South Seas Carbon Bubble: Australia and a near-Pacific regional climate Pact

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2008 | Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law

All smoke and mirrors? Carbon trading in Australia

P CHRISTOFF

Journal article | 2007 | Arena Magazine

Can the invisible hand adjust the thermostat? Carbon emissions trading and Australia

P CHRISTOFF

Book Chapter | 2007

Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

R ECKERSLEY, P CHRISTOFF

Book Chapter | 2007

A new South Seas carbon bubble? Australia and a near-Pacific regional climate pact

P CHRISTOFF

Conference Proceedings | 2007 | Climate change and Australian diplomacy

A new South Seas Bubble? Australia and a near-Pacific regional climate Pact

P CHRISTOFF

Conference Proceedings | 2007 | Australia and Climate Change Diplomacy: Towards a post-2012 regime - Policy proposals on Australia's climate change diplomacy