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If you’ve noticed Australia’s roads are worse for wear, you’re not alone. Extreme weather and climate change are already taking their toll.
Africa’s second climate summit agreed that climate finance to Africa must be a legal obligation and that every country on the continent should have a climate law.
There’s more we can do to better protect our homes – including 1.5 million homes already in high or very high risk areas today.
At long last, Australia has a national climate adaptation plan to guide public and private responses to intensifying threats.
Britain’s homes need a Mediterranean makeover as the climate changes.
Green lawyers are using the new global climate change legal opinion to challenge Shell in South Africa, and resist the expansion of fossil fuel industries.
In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.
Africa’s Second Climate Summit in Ethiopia will try to find ways to bring in more finance to help the continent adapt to climate change.
The UK faces a choice: lock into energy-hungry cooling, or redesign homes, streets and routines to stay cool naturally.
Climate adaptation projects in high conflict areas like South Sudan work best if they’re designed to help communities manage many problems at once.
Climate change is already hitting hard in Fiji. But when communities respond collectively, they can find new livelihoods.
In rural Malawi, women influence discussions on how to combat climate change in communities that depend on forests for survival.
Find out what Australian governments, industries and local groups are doing to adapt to climate change in this new database. Or add your own entry.
New study finds that people in 12 African countries don’t fully accept that extreme weather disasters are caused by climate change. More public awareness is needed.
Flash floods are increasing in frequency, severity and impact. The Canadian government needs to learn from the Texas tragedy and co-ordinate weather information and warning systems.
If Canadians want to fund education, health care and climate adaptation, Canada must grow its economy. And to do that, it needs smarter innovation policy.
Calculating the dual effect of rising seas and sinking land gives coastal communities a more accurate projection of the impacts of sea-level rise.
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.
A new report by the non-profit organisation Action Aid calculates that wealthier countries owe Africa US$36 trillion in climate debt.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Climate Adaptation, Griffith University
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Professor of Climate Change Adaptation, La Trobe University
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Chief Research Scientist - Environment, CSIRO
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ICLEI Professor of Practice - Local Government Climate Resilience, La Trobe University
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University