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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
A new climate projection found Glasgow pledges leave the world off-track for limiting warming to 1.5°C. What needs to happen in the final days of frantic COP26 negotiations to close the ambition gap?
First Nations leaders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai filed a landmark class action against the Australian government to protect communities in the Torres Strait from climate change.
Two supply chain experts see a major flaw in how ratings agencies measure companies’ environmental, social and governance performance.
Despite vastly different political systems, we can draw some interesting parallels between Russia and Australia on the climate front.
Women’s climate knowledge is often overlooked, despite it being a vital resource for adapting to a warming world.
At COP26 in Glasgow everyone was committed to saving the planet, but there were highly divergent views about how to do it.
Coal, cars, cash and trees: but what about the cows?
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
Military emissions reporting is only voluntary. And what we cannot see, they will not cut.
But the government will use the legislation for the fund to try to wedge Labor.
Girls and women will experience climate change in unique ways. This includes being vulnerable to gender-based violence as climate change brings about forced migration, loss of housing and income.
Mountain ecosystems are not as pristine as we may think – and climate change could trigger devastating transformations that will affect us all.
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.
A report found the amount of funding needed to adapt to climate change exceeds what has so far been delivered by 80%.
Of the big pledges so far at the UN climate conference, cutting methane could have the most immediate impact.
Failures to respond adequately to the floods that hit Germany and Luxembourg in July 2021 must teach us how to prepare for future climate disasters.
Universities have long been developing research, talent and technology that, with the right mix of industry and government support, will allow Australia to emerge as a green export and R&D leader.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
The message of Eva Orner’s new documentary is spot on, the logic of its argument faultless. But it tells us things more than it makes us feel things, and this is seldom beneficial in the medium.
Shipping requires vast amounts of fuel, and the questions of which country is responsible for emissions makes reaching agreements a mammoth and glacial task.
Eco-anxiety is an understandable response to the many crises the world faces. Here are four ways to help you cope.
Policy-makers need the courage to commit to meaningful reductions of greenhouse gas emissions if we want to avoid the widespread loss of mountain glaciers.
Tea growers in Malawi and Kenya wanted site-specific climate information to help them manage and plan their farming practices to maximise yield and quality.
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.