Exhausted negotiators are still working hard to land the Paris climate. They haven’t saved the climate yet, but a Copenhagen-style diplomatic disaster has been avoided.
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The business presence at COP21 may be on the sidelines but support for climate change is strong.
Poor planning can make natural disasters much, much worse.
Africa needs to work on adaption strategies if it is to overcome the harmful effects of climate change.
1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
Whatever the outcome of the COP21 Paris climate talks, climate change will result in assets becoming ‘stranded’.
The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
Projects to help people adapt to climate change are essential. But no one really knows how much to spend, or even how to tell which projects are working.
Companies in the fossil fuel business are coming up with ways to green their image - including sponsoring the Paris climate summit.
Advertising takeovers and creative forms of disobedience are some of the few means left to contest who is allowed to maintain a public voice at COP21.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Progress is being made at the Paris climate talks, as negotiators being to accept the limits of what can and can’t be delivered.
The draft text released midway through the Paris climate talks shows progress - but perhaps not enough for a truly ambitious deal.
African countries stand a good chance at COP21 of getting their ideas across. There will also be a better opportunity for these countries to access climate finance.
UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
“Investors are running ahead of governments.” This is arguably the most striking and encouraging statement heard so far at the Paris climate conference. It was made in a remarkable speech at a forum on…
Ethiopia is a country particularly vulnerable to climate change. It will hope to attract climate finance at CoP21 to help battle the effects of climate change.
The land of Ikea and apple charlotte is hoping to sell its vision of sustainability at COP21. There are a couple of meatballs in the ointment, though.
Business has a significant stake in the Paris climate talks. Here’s how companies will be shaping the agenda.
The food on our tables is central to the #COP21 debate and any Paris agreement must help build a system that moves us a long way from our current habits.
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Global Environmental Politics, College of the Atlantic
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Professor of Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Rubin Chair in Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University
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Professor Emerita of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Climate Change Mitigation and Inequality, University of Cape Town
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Économiste à l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), Sciences Po
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Professor and Director, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University