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Most rich white countries, including Australia, refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities.
Listen to the trailer for The Anthill’s new podcast series on climate change ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Three years after the Paris Agreement, negotiators have finally agreed (most of) the rules for its implementation. But there is still no way to compel countries to deepen their climate ambitions.
Thirty percent of global emissions will be generated from democracies governed by populist nationalist leaders who have very different playbooks than more traditional politicians.
The Paris Agreement was a breakthrough in global climate talks, but nations now face major hurdles to meeting long-term emissions goals – and maintaining global support for the deal.
As leaders and negotiators head to Katowice, Poland for this year’s round of UN climate talks, it is clear that there is still much work to be done to meet the goals set in Paris three years ago.
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Research Fellow in Environmental Policy and Planning, Griffith University
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Climate Adaptation, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Management (Emeritus) and Joint Program the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Head of Sustainable Finance Hub, The University of Melbourne
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford