Last week, the Australian government announced the merger of two cabinet-level departments, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. Unfortunately, moving the stand-alone department on climate change has raised concerns that Australia is taking the climate change challenge less seriously. But the merger is actually a welcome sign of growing international recognition that innovation policy and climate change mitigation are inescapably linked and it should further mitigation efforts, not hinder them. On the one hand, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard describes the creation of the new Department of … Continue reading Fear Not, Australia Cabinet Merger is Actually Better For Climate Change Mitigation