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Articles on COP24
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World elites should pay more attention to young, marginalised or indigenous voices.
Climate change is a serious threat now for poor people in developing countries, but the COP24 conference in Poland offered them little hope of near-term emissions cuts or economic aid.
Carbon emissions from maritime freight are everyone’s problem because of climate change.
An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
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.
The latest UN climate talks were ultimately hindered by their focus on nation-states, obscuring who is actually responsible for emissions.
Nations may soon be desperate enough about global warming to consider deliberately engineering the world’s climate.
Trump and Bolsonaro may be against any action on climate change, but they are not the norm.
The country’s carbon emissions should level off again soon.
For decades, economists have pondered the ‘social cost of carbon’ - the price worth paying to avoid the future costs of greenhouse emissions. But a new analysis suggests this quest is impossibly complex.
Drivers buy less gas when filling the tank burns holes in their wallets.
Applied games can help us to tackle problems like climate change by appealing to players’ hearts and minds.
The UN climate talks are being held in a nation dominated by cheap coal.
We are on track to reach 1.5°C of global warming within 16 years according to new data.
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.
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?
While the world gathers to negotiate on climate change, governments must recognise the public desire for action on plastic pollution and work together to solve it.
Private finance crashed the economy and is too consumed by the profit motive to be a reliable ally against climate change. We should not allow COP24 to be their board meeting.
Top contributors
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Honorary Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Research Associate, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Government, University of Essex
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Research Fellow, Climate & Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow in Environmental Policy and Planning, Griffith University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
