Australia has made several climate-themed announcements since the start of the Paris talks, but nothing that cuts to the heart of the climate issue.
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Progress is being made at the Paris climate talks, as negotiators being to accept the limits of what can and can’t be delivered.
The draft text released midway through the Paris climate talks shows progress - but perhaps not enough for a truly ambitious deal.
At the halfway mark in the Paris climate talks, progress is still frustratingly slow as the negotiations risk falling prey to old stalling tactics.
India seems to have set its sights on trying to water down the Paris climate agreement. As long as the talks insist on full consensus, it may get its way.
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has come to the Paris climate talks to push his radical alternative to current carbon pricing schemes.
A new bloc of ‘vulnerable’ countries has emerged at the Paris climate talks - perhaps heralding the end of the old rich-poor geopolitical divide.
The sooner nations stop viewing emissions reduction as a burden to be shared, and more as an opportunity to be grasped, the sooner real climate progress will be achieved.
In diplomatic terms, COP21 already has “success” built in. But there is still lots of work to do to hit the two-degree global warming goal.
We must tackle the climate challenge by using economic tools to develop a consistent and equitable system for pricing carbon.
The Paris climate deal comes ‘pre-packaged’ by the promises nations have already made. But the issue of global climate finance could still scupper the talks.
What’s happening? Every year the United Nations holds a climate change summit. This year’s summit is in Paris from November 30 to December 11. The summit is supposed to clinch a new deal to address climate…
The hype and excitement at Copenhagen were intense. But with the mood in Paris more sombre, the expectations are more mature, if equally determined.
Probably not, but that might be for the best if it encourages countries to be more ambitious in their commitments, rather than playing it safe to avoid falling foul of legal obligations.
The 2015 “Conference of Parties” in Paris will bring together 195 nations rich and poor as well as the EU to try and hammer out a definitive climate agreement. So how does it all work?
The stakes could scarcely be higher at December’s climate summit in Paris, described as the world’s best chance of averting climate catastrophe. The Conversation will be there to see if the talks can deliver.
India has pledged to ramp up renewable energy and make its economy more carbon-efficient. And while that will help cut emissions, the main motivation is to give power to the many who still lack access to electricity.
After years of squabbling over climate policy, do we now have a prime minister prepared to clean up the mess? Given a fair wind at the Paris summit and an election win, Turnbull might just pull it off.
When Australia’s government first pledged to set an emission-reduction target, Jon Bon Jovi was riding high in the charts. The progress made in the 25 years since has hardly been a blaze of glory.
Connie Hedegaard, who chaired the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, says the stakes are high for this year’s crunch talks in Paris, and that without a solid result, the process could begin to fragment.
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director for Technology and Innovation at the International Renewable Energy Agency and Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Public Policy Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Academic position - Research Associate at the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne
