Nearly eight in ten homes facing severe to extreme flood risk are now not insured. We need to rethink how to keep communities safe.
- Associate Professor in Climate Adaptation, Griffith University
At long last, Australia has a national climate adaptation plan to guide public and private responses to intensifying threats.
Cost of living is trumping climate at this election, but the issue won’t disappear. Here’s what major parties are offering – and what we actually need.
As the costs of disasters climb, working out who will finance climate adaptation has become increasingly urgent for developing nations.
We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during.
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time – so what have the Coalition and the Labor party actually promised? Five experts grade different aspects of their climate policies.
We need to urgently address the gaps in Australia’s capacity to manage disasters that have widened since climate adaptation was relegated to the back burner.
Recent bushfires and extreme weather are just a small taste of what is to come if this week’s climate negotiations in Madrid fail to deliver.
Climate change is happening and will intensify in coming decades. Some experts say it’s time for a triage strategy that focuses investments where they are most likely to have an impact.
As leaders and negotiators head to Katowice, Poland for this year’s round of UN climate talks, it is clear that there is still much work to be done to meet the goals set in Paris three years ago.
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