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South African courts are increasingly handing down judgments that take into account the future climate damage that new developments may cause.
Teaching children about the environmental crisis can help fight climate change, but climate change is already negatively affecting children’s education around the globe.
Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
Women need legal aid to sue companies and governments over climate change damage to their communities.
As new climate-related cases are brought to court, our expert outlines key aspects that could change the legal landscape.
For the green transition to be fair and just to people and communities around the globe, countries must change the way energy is used and governed.
By allowing a case against local greenhouse gas emitters to go ahead, the Supreme Court of New Zealand has opened the door to a new front in climate law – one that takes tikanga Māori into account.
Cutting wealth inequality could curb the super-rich’s disproportionate share of emissions.
Africa must guard against new environment friendly trade rules that leave the continent in the poor position of exporting raw materials that developed nations use to manufacture green energy systems.
The African Food Systems Transformation Collective says COP28 must enable transition from fossil-fuelled food systems and leverage indigenous knowledge so that all can sustainably access good food.
Theatre and the arts can be vehicles for thinking globally and acting locally, embracing alternative ways of knowing and acknowledging holistic approaches to addressing climate change.
The pilot project opening in Sydney will use the best available evidence to keep vulnerable people cool on the hottest of days.
A recent study found one billion people are likely to die prematurely by the end of the century from climate change. Here are seven energy policies that could save their lives.
Climate and investment laws must align for the global south to get climate justice and achieve net-zero emissions.
It’s been five years since school students first went on strike for climate action. Much has changed.
Preliminary findings show that managed retreat, structural flood protection and climate-resilient development projects are most at risk of maladaptation.
Often those most impacted by climate change are those least able to engage with climate discourse. Universities have a responsibility to engage with these communities.
An unprecedented win for climate justice in Montana has the potential to send reverberations around the world, including here in Canada.
Climate change and related droughts, hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather events are making it harder.
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Director Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
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Associate Professor & Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Dalhousie University
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
