This is not an imaginary future dystopia. It’s a scientific projection of Australia under 3°C of global warming – a future we must both strenuously try to avoid, but also prepare for.
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Articles on climate risk
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One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth’s climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
Instead of telling people to buy more of the right type of insurance, we should be asking how insurance can work better for people.
There’s a growing push among businesses, including the finance sector, to protect the climate and nature.
With growing drought, rising seas and heavier storms, how do we protect Venice and other world treasures? The answer: creative, proactive measures that may alter them in important ways.
The groundbreaking legal case has changed the game for how Australia’s $3 trillion superannuation industry invests, and how members are protected from climate risk.
Can maps of people’s flooded properties convince them that rising sea level is a threat?
The idea that central banks should shift their mandates to take account of climate risks confuses ends and means.
World Heritage globally is threatened by climate change, in all sorts of ways. A new tool identifies the key risks and best strategies for both natural and cultural wonders.
Climate change science was driven by curiosity in the past. Now climate researchers need to focus on managing the risk of global warming’s ill effects.
One natural disaster can exacerbate the effects of others – think landslides after wildfires. This means engineers and planners need to rethink how they assess and prepare for risk.
Company directors have been put on notice about their duty to consider and disclose climate change risks. And to do that properly they need to call on the expertise of accountants.
The failure of political systems is the main cause of conflict and displacement but climate change can exacerbate this.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
The oil giant is bowing to pressure exerted by shareholders and the authorities as it tries to catch up with its competitors.
The Trump administration’s decision to dismiss or accept a government-prepared climate report will have life-or-death consequences, says a climate scientist involved in the previous report.
Achieving the goal of sustainable cities depends on rolling back the market after decades of privatisation and deregulation.
A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump’s plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
The federal government has defunded a national research agency that looks at how best to adapt to climate-related impacts such as floods, droughts and heatwaves - a decision that could cost lives.
Top contributors
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Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Director, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Public Economics, The Parkland Institute, University of Alberta
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Director of Food Innovation, University of Adelaide
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Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Ecologist, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Biology, The University of Queensland
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Professor in School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences; and Director of Environmental Futures Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Professor of Health Equity, ANU, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
