We don’t really know how much international migration will be prompted by climate change. But everyone agrees the issue is big - perhaps too big to resolve at the Paris talks.
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Business has a significant stake in the Paris climate talks. Here’s how companies will be shaping the agenda.
The food on our tables is central to the #COP21 debate and any Paris agreement must help build a system that moves us a long way from our current habits.
Older people are politically active and have the talent and time to get more involved in addressing climate change. But in the US, they’ll need some convincing.
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has come to the Paris climate talks to push his radical alternative to current carbon pricing schemes.
The Paris Climate Conference must not be hijacked by big business and its allies in the world’s media.
COP21 is an opportunity for countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal to reinvent their economies along environmentally friendly and sustainable lines.
A new bid to boost the amount of carbon stored in the world’s soils has been launched at the Paris climate summit.
Many developing nations are likely to support any motions China proposes at COP21.
Businesses are crucial to action on climate change but corporate social responsibility doesn’t take us far enough or fast enough. Here’s why.
New Zealand Prime Minister won plaudits at COP21 for issuing a declaration against fossil fuel subsidies. But he has also effectively weakened his country’s emissions target.
Australia will ratify the second period of the Kyoto Protocol - but what does that mean?
A new bloc of ‘vulnerable’ countries has emerged at the Paris climate talks - perhaps heralding the end of the old rich-poor geopolitical divide.
When newly minted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rose to speak at COP13 in Bali in 2007 and announced that Australia would ratify the Kyoto Protocol, he received a standing ovation from the world community…
The latest climate summit will avoid the real issue: capitalism demands exponential growth, driven by fossil-fuels.
The sooner nations stop viewing emissions reduction as a burden to be shared, and more as an opportunity to be grasped, the sooner real climate progress will be achieved.
In diplomatic terms, COP21 already has “success” built in. But there is still lots of work to do to hit the two-degree global warming goal.
Success in dealing with common resources on a smaller scale proves it’s not impossible to manage the biggest common resource of all – planet Earth.
The scientific case rests on six key observations.
Just over 100 years before the Paris climate summit, the Eiffel Tower was the site of modern globalisation’s defining moment. On July 1, 1913, the first wireless transmission of a time signal integrated…
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