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Africa needs to work on adaption strategies if it is to overcome the harmful effects of climate change.
1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
Whatever the outcome of the COP21 Paris climate talks, climate change will result in assets becoming ‘stranded’.
Things can change disturbingly quickly – just ask the people who once farmed the Sahara.
How to ensure rich countries will live up to their promises of money and carbon emissions cuts? Developing countries need to look to the Allies’ unified strategy in World War II.
The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
Projects to help people adapt to climate change are essential. But no one really knows how much to spend, or even how to tell which projects are working.
There’s a huge gap between what India claims it can do, and what it’s actually doing to bring down emissions.
A majority of countries want visionary action rather than pragmatism at the Paris climate talks, says the International Institute for Environment and Development’s Saleemul Huq.
How to hit rogue countries where it really hurts – in the wallet.
A narrow debate of what countries should pay to respond to climate change obscures a bigger moral discussion that touches on economics, ethics and people’s relationship to the natural world.
Companies in the fossil fuel business are coming up with ways to green their image - including sponsoring the Paris climate summit.
Despite robust global economic growth over the past two years, worldwide carbon emissions from fossil fuels grew very little in 2014, and might even fall this year.
To prevent dangerous climate change, it’s likely we’ll have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that’s looking less and less promising.
Advertising takeovers and creative forms of disobedience are some of the few means left to contest who is allowed to maintain a public voice at COP21.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Australia has made several climate-themed announcements since the start of the Paris talks, but nothing that cuts to the heart of the climate issue.
Progress is being made at the Paris climate talks, as negotiators being to accept the limits of what can and can’t be delivered.
The draft text released midway through the Paris climate talks shows progress - but perhaps not enough for a truly ambitious deal.
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National 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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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, Adelaide University
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Academic position - Research Associate at the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia