If many countries take the stance that ‘we’re only contributing 1% of global emissions’, responsibility dwindles and action stalls.
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Australia’s Chris Bowen was among a select group of ministers meeting in Wuhan, China this week to progress global climate negotiations. Here’s why China is taking climate so seriously.
Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
The culpability for Pakistan’s catastrophic floods rests with the government and wealthy polluter countries.
This seemingly one-off heatwave may be a harbinger for the future under climate change.
We need specific action now to make net zero emissions by 2050 possible.
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The global pandemic caused an unprecedented drop in global emissions. But this is likely to rebound as economies start to recover.
The pandemic, along with other recent trends such as the shift towards clean energy, have placed us at a crossroad: the choices we make today can change the course of global emissions.
Some atmospheric pollutants actually help cool the planet, but the sudden shutdown of heavy industry threatened to purge them.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Yes, Australia’s greenhouse emissions are a small part of the global total. But we’re a rich, emissions-intensive country that could and should be setting a much better example to the world.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
An international report has found there’s no future for Australia’s coal exports.
In 2017 18.8 million people were displaced by natural disasters, with floods accounting for 8.6 million. Climate change is poised to drive those numbers higher still.
Labor’s shadow environment minister, Mark Butler, said Australia is now “pretty much the only major advanced economy where pollution levels are going up, not coming down.” Is that right?
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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NERC Independent Research Fellow in Climate Science, University of East Anglia
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Assistant Professor, Documentary Film, OCAD University
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Lecturer, Environmental Psychology, University of Bath
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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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Professor, Khalifa University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford