An NGO representative stands in front of a replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris climate change conference in December 2015.
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Australia’s coastal settlements are highly exposed to the impacts of climate change. Climate-resilient urban landscapes that can cope with large amounts of water need to become the new normal.
This and Turnbull’s observations on energy policy provided abundant material for a question time attack by Labor bloated from dining on the unending manna that’s been flowing from political heaven.
Work cut out for them: Climate negotiators need to ensure the Paris Agreement can still hold.
United Nations Climate Change
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 are not doing a good job of communicating climate change. People have diverging interpretations of how climate change fits into their own stories.
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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?
Matthew E. Kahn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
George H.W. Bush, who pledged to be ‘the environmental president,’ took a market-based approach to pollution control that helped clear the air. Now some experts think it could work on climate change.
Snowpack protects tree roots and soil from harmful freeze/thaw cycles.
Rebecca Siegel
Climate change is shrinking winter snow cover in Northeast forests, which protects tree roots and soil from repeated freezing and thawing. This could stunt tree growth and forest carbon storage.
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.
Earth is fast approaching the red lines that scientists have urged temperatures cannot cross if we have any hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change. Here are the emergency measures we need.
COP24 venue Spodek arena in Katowice, Poland.
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With so much attention focused on what agreements come out of COP24, protesters should be seizing the initiative to attack the root causes of climate change.
England’s largest woodland - Kielder Forest.
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Replanting the world’s great forests should be a central demand at COP24.
The Giant Sea Bass at the California Academy of Sciences. Fishes'sense of smell is highly affected by high level of carbon dioxide in the ocean.
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Increase of carbon dioxide in the ocean affects the way fish detect predators, mates or food and could threaten not only individual fish but entire populations.
Sahia moved to Singpur with her husband, where they planned to build a life.
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
Sahia and her husband hoped to start a life in Singpur, a village in Bangladesh. But the riverside community found climate change made putting down roots impossible.