One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
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China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
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.
Targets for reductions in methane and other greenhouse gases should be guided by science, and set in line with the Paris deal.
This Australian climate policy gives cause for hope, but will it really lead to a well-adapted Australia?
Electric vehicle sales are booming and coal power is dwindling, but structural obstacles to net zero remain.
Reach net zero requires policies spanning energy, industry, transport, agriculture, land use, even trade. Climate change is a whole-of-government issue. It’s every minister’s problem.
Labor is not due to announce its full climate plan until after international climate talks in Glasgow.
Electric boilers can be a green heating alternative, an expert says.
Allotments and repairing old clothes are just aspects of 1970s life that are making a comeback.
Restoring farmland is one of the best ways to tackle climate and environmental issues over the long-term. But this doesn’t appear to be part of the Nationals deal.
Word from The Hill: Scott Morrison’s (thin) climate plan for Glasgow
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Saudi Arabia and soon Australia are making net zero pledges, but they have no plans to wind down fossil fuel output soon.
Research shows white male voices tend to dominate climate discussions - this must change if we are to halt environmental destruction.
Electricity should be a main focus, but big improvements are also needed in transport, industry, agriculture and buildings.
The UK prime minister has been setting out ambitions to be a world leader in the coming hydrogen economy.
After some prevarication, the prime minister is heading for the COP 26 meeting, But first, he needs to sort out the position on climate within the coalition.
This is a transcript of part 2 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Listen to the second episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash 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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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University