Climate justice is becoming an increasingly important part of climate action.
Articles on Paris climate agreement
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The challenges we face demand profound changes in our thinking and priorities. Replacing the Productivity Commission with a National Sustainability Commission would help us make this paradigm shift.
The Paris agreement has given us some solid targets to aim for in terms of limiting global warming. But that in turn begs a whole range of new scientific questions.
Energy companies are realising that, in light of the Paris climate deal, the economics are starting to line up in favour of climate action, not against it.
Yes, we blunt the effects of climate change by getting off fossil fuels. But countries’ most ambitious targets imply use of climate engineering schemes – and that discussion should be done in public.
Australia’s greenhouse emissions are once again rising, after a decade of consistent declines. But the right policies are already in place to turn things around - they just need to be ramped up.
What’s next, now that the Paris climate summit is over? We’ve created a special report for you, featuring two dozen of our best articles on the scientific, political and economic challenges ahead.
If shipping and aviation don’t rein in their emissions it could seriously jeopardise our goal of preventing more than 2°C of warming.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex, University of Staffordshire
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Director for Technology and Innovation at the International Renewable Energy Agency and Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Physics, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Political Science, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences