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Who feels the heat first?

At yesterday’s COP21 science briefing, University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins displayed a chilling (pun intended) colour-coded world map. Nation by nation, it showed which countries are already…

Just how hard will India push in Paris?

India has emerged as one of the key, and most intriguing, voices at the COP21 talks in Paris. In the first three days of the conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has committed to playing a constructive…
Malcolm Turnbull addresses the opening of the Paris climate summit. EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson

Australia’s leader sets his sights low in opening conference gambit

When newly minted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rose to speak at COP13 in Bali in 2007 and announced that Australia would ratify the Kyoto Protocol, he received a standing ovation from the world community…