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If all countries in the world followed Indonesia’s target, the global temperature would rise by 4°C by 2050.
We assessed 187 ASX200 companies – together they produce 32% of Australia’s operational emissions.
A new website, based on workshops with young Australians, outlines practical ways to deal with climate distress.
Carbon offsetting is often met with scepticism, but a new report suggests that if correctly designed it can be an important part of the net zero transition.
Sen. Rosa Galvez has called for ambitious and coherent government intervention to address the risks financial institutions pose to climate. Here’s why Canadians must rally around her.
Climate change affects groups very differently. Here’s how Australians facing climate shifts now are responding.
Amid a number of major crises, the world clearly needs radical change. But what will it look like? The desire to return to pre-pandemic ‘normal’ is powerful, but ‘normal’ is what got us where we are today.
Myths about the relative costs of tackling climate change continue to hold back progress.
The findings of a new study suggest mistrust in climate science and uncritical faith in “alternative science” lead people to reject consensus science and generate alternative explanations.
Liz Truss has appointed a loyal cabinet with varied environmental credentials. What will this mean for UK climate action?
The science tells us this is our last chance to avert planetary disaster. Accepting our feelings of intense loss – for ourselves and the Earth – can propel us into action, writes Joelle Gergis.
While a US transition to renewable energy by 2030 is possible, streamlined policies with clear goals and incentives are necessary to get there, says an industrial engineering professor.
The Greens backed Labor’s moderate emissions cuts to avoid being seen as unwilling to compromise. But it’s only the start of a new wrestle over climate ambition.
For Pacific Islands, climate change trumps all other threats to their security. While they welcome Australia’s new emission targets, this is an issue of survival that demands greater ambition.
While Australia worries about Chinese influence, Pacific nations are more worried about climate change. By boosting climate ambition, Australia could be the region’s security partner of choice.
The environmental movement is now tightly woven into communities across Australia and its demands are clear. Politicians ignore it at their peril.
The rise of teals and Greens challenges Labor to take more ambitious climate action, but room to move is constrained by pre-election commitments.
More of the curriculum is devoted to climate change, but it’s still not presented holistically. Teachers also need more training and resources to help them prepare students for a changing climate.
Climate artists can offer a vision of tangible networks, activities, behaviours and lifestyles that, rather than damaging the planet, support planetary — and personal — health and well-being.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University; York University, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow in Climate Science Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, Environmental Psychology, University of Bath
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Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, UTAS, University of Tasmania
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University
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Professor, Département de droit, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Marine Social Scientist, The University of Queensland