Fighting drought and combating desertification are climate obligations.
Articles on UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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At the same time, Americans have been facing worsening storms, wildfires and deadly heat waves.
The US has obstructed climate action for decades – largely due to damaging actions by the powerful fossil fuel industry. But Australia has a chance now to lead.
Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables.
Credibility of the UN’s framework convention on climate change can be restored when countries take responsibility for their actions and deliver money they promise.
The costs of an unequal global system are not reflected in the new finance goal.
Australia and Pacific nations won’t know until June next year if they’re hosting the COP31 climate talks. But with tens of thousands of people potentially coming, they need to start planning now.
The answer will determine how hot the planet gets this century.
Loss and damage funding could preserve cultural heritage or soothe mental anguish post-disasters.
The world’s most powerful country threatens to once again leave the Paris agreement on climate change.
So many complicated climate acronyms render meaningless to the general public – here’s a guide to some of the jargon.
The succession of authoritarian fossil fuel producers hosting international climate negotiations is a concern. We must pay attention to political influences on the talks and beware of greenwashing.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Convention on Biological Diversity are separate platforms, but climate change and biodiversity loss urgently require a joint approach.
The governance of solar radiation modification technologies is hampered by a lack of consensus on whether and how to explore such technologies. Only honest dialogue can hope to break this impasse.
Climate change poses clear risks to human rights around the world. It is essential that people hold governments and decision-makers to account.
Girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis. It’s time we bring them to the centre of international climate policy.
Beyond the international negotiations, COP serves as a critical venue for global civil societies to exchange knowledge, organize and build a better world.
From a ‘litany of loopholes’ to a lopsided deal on loss and damage.
Weak language at COP28 is at complete odds with the officially-recognised science.
As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen lands in Dubai for COP28, Australia has announced an extra A$150 in climate finance with a focus on the Pacific region.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Political Science, UCL
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Researcher, Air and Space Law, McGill University; Bond University
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, UCL
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PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Bond University
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Professor of International Forest Policy, University of Helsinki
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Lecturer in International Development, UCL
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Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Concordia University