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Despite vastly different political systems, we can draw some interesting parallels between Russia and Australia on the climate front.
Women’s climate knowledge is often overlooked, despite it being a vital resource for adapting to a warming world.
At COP26, governments will have to consider how climate policies help them achieve their emissions targets and affect economies.
At COP26 in Glasgow everyone was committed to saving the planet, but there were highly divergent views about how to do it.
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Saving African forests is a global concern and needs prioritisation.
Subsidies could help kickstart cost cutting and innovation in this prohibitively expensive industry.
Coal, cars, cash and trees: but what about the cows?
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
Military emissions reporting is only voluntary. And what we cannot see, they will not cut.
Fossil fuels account for one in five premature adult deaths each year.
Girls and women will experience climate change in unique ways. This includes being vulnerable to gender-based violence as climate change brings about forced migration, loss of housing and income.
It’s encouraging to see the Morrison government move past its claim electric vehicles would ‘end the weekend’. But the new plan is not the national electric vehicle strategy Australia deserves, and badly needs.
The press releases sound promising, but the negotiations have a long way to go. Here’s what’s ahead at the midpoint of the COP26 climate talks.
A report found the amount of funding needed to adapt to climate change exceeds what has so far been delivered by 80%.
Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.
Failures to respond adequately to the floods that hit Germany and Luxembourg in July 2021 must teach us how to prepare for future climate disasters.
Universities have long been developing research, talent and technology that, with the right mix of industry and government support, will allow Australia to emerge as a green export and R&D leader.
China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
Shipping requires vast amounts of fuel, and the questions of which country is responsible for emissions makes reaching agreements a mammoth and glacial task.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University