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.
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We may only have 12 years to stop climate change and the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 seems more in doubt than ever. What can we hope to come out of COP24?
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.
Staying below 1.5°C will require urgent, deep and radical changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
Nuclear energy should be a possibility for African countries.
Keeping global warming to 1.5°C could significantly decrease the frequency of extreme climate events across Africa.
Canada has made strides, but we're still far from being a climate leader. Budgeting our emissions would help bring us to the front of the pack.
Another round of UN climate negotiations kicks off in Bonn this month. With a Trump-shaped cloud hanging over the Paris Agreement, what approach can we expect Australia to adopt this time around?
It's still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of the global carbon budget. But it sure won't be easy, and we need to start now.
Climate change will have a big impact on the global economy, for better or worse. We explore four issues that bring climate and trade negotiations head to head.
Amid fears for the world's coral reefs, the UN World Heritage Committee has issued its most wide-ranging statement so far on protecting heritage sites from climate. But the problem doesn't end there.
Scientists typically stay out of public policy debates, but an academic makes the case that they need to push back against politicians who distort research.
It's increasingly likely that at some point, the world's nations will need to broach the fraught discussion of geoengineering. The UN climate accord was a natural forum to do it.
It's just not in their business interests to ignore climate change.
Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement strains international relations further and strengthens the resolve of other countries to move forward on climate without the US.
American presidents have spent a great deal of time proclaiming US leadership of the global system. The decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement undermines much of what they have said.
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.
Donald Trump has fulfilled his pledge to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement struck in 2015, leaving China and Europe with the job of preventing other nations from following suit.
From citizens who sit on the boards of energy companies to neighbourhoods that help fund local wind farms, community action is critical to the environmental movement.
The latest climate summit began the long slog towards putting the Paris Agreement into action. But it generated more questions than answers, particularly on how to handle a Trump-led United States.
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Lecturer in International Relations and Environmental Policy, Australian National University
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Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Concordia University
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PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
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Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
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Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
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Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Director, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Jon C. Day est un·e ami·e de The Conversation
PSM, Post-career PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Griffith University
