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Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables.
Australia and Pacific nations won’t know until June next year if they’re hosting the COP31 climate talks. But with tens of thousands of people potentially coming, they need to start planning now.
Expectations were low for the latest UN climate summit. But climate law expert Jacqueline Peel – who was at the talks – explains what progress was made.
Australia and the Pacific are now tipped to be hosts of the 2026 global climate talks. That brings opportunity – and scrutiny.
To fight global warming we will soon have to try to remove carbon dioxide from the skies or find ways to reflect the Sun’s heat. Such radical paths must be examined, but risky experiments avoided.
Hosting the world’s climate negotiations could be a very big deal. But the government will need to show Australia has changed by bringing more to the table, and taking coal and gas off the menu.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum
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Senior Researcher, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Demography, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Director, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University