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Human behaviors shift. Policies change. New technology arrives and evolves. All those changes and more are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs.
How economic thinking on climate change has evolved since the 2006 Stern Review.
In Australia, coastal flooding is expected to be worse along the northern coast in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
The climate action plans of three companies in different industries – Delta Air Lines, Amazon and Microsoft – illuminate the three key strategies needed to cut carbon emissions.
William Nordhaus’ predictions of what the climate crisis will cost the earth are dangerously at odds with climate science.
For decades, economists have pondered the ‘social cost of carbon’ - the price worth paying to avoid the future costs of greenhouse emissions. But a new analysis suggests this quest is impossibly complex.
Taxing carbon has always been a tricky political sell for conservatives. But a group of establishment US Republicans is touting the idea of a carbon “tax and dividend” as a way to break the deadlock.
The US government is being sued by teenagers who say it hasn’t done enough to protect future generations from climate change. The case raises the crucial question of how we weigh up society’s future rights.
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Institute for Humane Studies
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Honorary Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Climate Change and Energy, The Open University
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Kernot Professor of Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Special Advisor to the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge