When it comes to loss and damage, COP27 negotiations seem likely to reach a dead end. But as we enter the final days of the summit, anything can happen.
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Decades of research shows disasters are caused human vulnerabilities rather than the climate itself.
The press releases sound promising, but the negotiations have a long way to go. Here’s what’s ahead at the midpoint of the COP26 climate talks.
Haiti is extremely vulnerable to climate change. It is also very poor. International donors have stepped in to help the country fund climate mitigation, but is the money going where it’s most needed?
Nauru is best known as a site of Australian offshore asylum detention. But everyone on the island - not just refugees - is struggling with the issue of environmental change that threatens their lives and homes.
Google search histories can be used to reveal how much the public knows about climate change in countries all over the world - and how ready they are to take action to guard against its effects.
The countries that have contributed the least to climate change will experience the worst of its effects.
A majority of countries want visionary action rather than pragmatism at the Paris climate talks, says the International Institute for Environment and Development’s Saleemul Huq.
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, University of the West of England
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Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh
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Research assistant, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Conservation Science, Deakin University
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Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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