Humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5°C this century. But political action will determine whether it actually does. Conflating the two questions amounts to dangerous, misplaced punditry.
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Plus how to interpret the outcome of the pre-COP26 summit.
Discord and doubt are the last things the world needs at this critical moment.
We hear a lot about the Morrison government ‘kicking the can down the road’ on emissions reduction. New research reveals the precise burden that forces onto young Australians.
A year out from the postponed 26th UN conference, the UK held an online meeting to drum up goodwill for climate action.
The Paris Agreement desperately needs to be updated. Currently the big exporters take no responsibility for the emissions created when those fossil fuels are burned overseas.
If Scott Morrison announces he’ll scrap the controversial Kyoto carryover credits tomorrow, our international counterparts will still regard Australia as a climate change laggard.
The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
The coronavirus pandemic caused the UN’s annual climate conference to be postponed by a year, but it was also responsible for a drop in carbon emissions. Is it enough and will it last?
Three decades of growing scientific certainty about climate change have yielded little progress.
The Trump presidency has been a godsend for an Australian government apparently uninterested in significant climate action. But with Trump well behind in the polls, that’s set to change.
The coronavirus slowdown provides an opportunity to reset the economy to address climate change.
In a speech on Friday, Angus Taylor lays the groundwork for the “technology investment roadmap” to be released soon.
The UN’s climate change conference is coming to the UK this year, and former industrial powerhouse Glasgow is just the city to demonstrate its environmental commitment.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University
