This is not an imaginary future dystopia. It’s a scientific projection of Australia under 3°C of global warming – a future we must both strenuously try to avoid, but also prepare for.
One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
A mix of public and private forests in Oregon’s Coast Range.
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Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth’s climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
With growing drought, rising seas and heavier storms, how do we protect Venice and other world treasures? The answer: creative, proactive measures that may alter them in important ways.
The groundbreaking legal case has changed the game for how Australia’s $3 trillion superannuation industry invests, and how members are protected from climate risk.
Floods as a result of Hurricane Irma in Fort Lauderdale.
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Can maps of people’s flooded properties convince them that rising sea level is a threat?
As smoke from Australia’s bushfires streams over South America, bankers are beginning to take seriously the possibility of extreme events.
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World Heritage globally is threatened by climate change, in all sorts of ways. A new tool identifies the key risks and best strategies for both natural and cultural wonders.
How can we design projects, such as tunnels, to last decades yet still account for the uncertain effects of climate change?
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Climate change science was driven by curiosity in the past. Now climate researchers need to focus on managing the risk of global warming’s ill effects.
Deadly debris flows came to Los Angeles after heavy rain pounded wildfire-scarred land.
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One natural disaster can exacerbate the effects of others – think landslides after wildfires. This means engineers and planners need to rethink how they assess and prepare for risk.
To properly consider climate risks for their business, directors need the financial expertise of accountants.
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Company directors have been put on notice about their duty to consider and disclose climate change risks. And to do that properly they need to call on the expertise of accountants.
Women looking for water in Sudan. Climate change can play a role in forcing people to migrate.
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The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
Protesters have sought for years to force Exxon Mobil to disclose the risks it faces due to climate change and to do more to minimize them.
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The Trump administration’s decision to dismiss or accept a government-prepared climate report will have life-or-death consequences, says a climate scientist involved in the previous report.
The uniquely weak regulation of high-rise, high-density development exemplifies the market-driven growth of Australian cities.
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A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump’s plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
Flooding on the Coomera River near Queensland’s Gold Coast.
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The federal government has defunded a national research agency that looks at how best to adapt to climate-related impacts such as floods, droughts and heatwaves - a decision that could cost lives.
Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania