At COP26 in Glasgow everyone was committed to saving the planet, but there were highly divergent views about how to do it.
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Saving African forests is a global concern and needs prioritisation.
Subsidies could help kickstart cost cutting and innovation in this prohibitively expensive industry.
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.
Fossil fuels account for one in five premature adult deaths each year.
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.
It’s encouraging to see the Morrison government move past its claim electric vehicles would ‘end the weekend’. But the new plan is not the national electric vehicle strategy Australia deserves, and badly needs.
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%.
Continuous growth of energy production and consumption, even from low carbon energy sources, could create more problems than solutions.
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.
China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
Shipping requires vast amounts of fuel, and the questions of which country is responsible for emissions makes reaching agreements a mammoth and glacial task.
Work is still needed to collect more data on the carbon capture capacity of the country’s rich coastal ecosystems.
We already have most technologies Australia needs to make the clean energy transition. What’s missing is a plan to deploy them at huge scale.
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.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, 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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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
