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To improve air quality, a combination of efforts is needed including reducing Eskom’s emissions, investing in cleaner sources of energy, and reducing emissions.
Sweden has long tried to foster a global consciousness in its young people.
Scott Morrison has long been regarded as a slippery political player. The imbroglio has further tarnished his personal reputation
If we fail to balance the social impacts of climate change with responsible climate action, we risk substituting one kind of harm for another – and this would be a disaster of another kind.
Most concerning is the long-term upward trends of CO₂ emissions form burning fossil fuels, which are far from trending towards net-zero by 2050.
The pledge to end deforestation holds great potential, but Canada has some work ahead if it is to make meaningful progress on the new goal and stop ongoing forest and carbon loss.
More than 100 nations have pledged to end deforestation by 2030. But there’s no mention of the need for Indigenous people to give their prior informed consent.
The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.
Artists do more than tell us there’s a problem. They can add nuance to the complex web of interconnected issues we face and tell stories about loss, possibility and transformation.
Climate justice is about both where emissions come from and who suffers the consequences.
Research finds a link between rising temperatures and inflation.
Deforestation in Brazil was falling before 2014. Under Bolsonaro, it’s back to record highs.
Scott Morrison says that we all should ‘move on’ as French criticism of Australia’s actions over the cancelled submarine contract continue to escalate
Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s trip blown up by French grenade
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Targets for reductions in methane and other greenhouse gases should be guided by science, and set in line with the Paris deal.
What really matters is domestic policy; if countries don’t change what they’re doing at home to bring fossil fuels emissions to zero and restore degraded lands, such declarations are meaningless.
Cutting methane emissions by 30% will help slow climate change in the short-term but could compromise longer-term goals.
Many scientists now think 3°C of warming is likely.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
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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