Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.
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Women entrepreneurs in Africa may be leading the way in building long-term climate resilience.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.
Climate change is increasing the risks of extreme heat, floods and bushfires, meaning more people are having to consider moving home. But different people come to different decisions.
African cities contribute the least to but bear the highest impact of climate change in terms of frequency and severity of weather events.
Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change.
Residents are living with the impacts of climate change and know it’s happening. But leaving their homes would strike at the heart of their identity.
New Zealand can expect more days above 25°C, the threshold for heat stress in livestock, and fewer frost days, which will affect crops like kiwifruit that need winter chilling.
Three of the report’s 270 authors highlight some key findings.
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From melting glaciers to mounting storms, the impacts of climate change are global – but they’re not equally shared.
As the impacts and costs of climate change increase over time, New Zealand’s financial systems could become less stable and the government less able to support those affected.
Many scientists now think 3°C of warming is likely.
New Zealand is replacing its once groundbreaking environmental legislation with new laws, one of which focuses on climate change adaptation and will include a fund to enable managed retreat.
Climate change has long been dismissed as a significant stress to New Zealand’s native wildlife, but research shows it exacerbates existing threats such as introduced predators and habitat loss.
Cape Town’s new climate strategy is a good start. But it falls short when it comes to nature.
Auckland’s extreme drought and the rapid retreat of glaciers in the Southern Alps both highlight how important long-term observations are for water management policy and planning.
The summit was supposed to get global climate action back on track. But despite a few bright spots, the urgent action needed to avoid a climate catastrophe looks a long way off.
Climate change has got to the point that communities around the world are having to contemplate moving. It’s never an easy process, but good planning improves the prospects of successful relocation.
The Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020 debated a host of critical issues but never brought up the equally important challenge of Americans’ food security.
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Professor of Applied Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Professor of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Research Fellow, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Australian National University
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Professor in Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Director - Higher Degree Research and Teaching, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University
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Assistant Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Marine Biology, Nord University