Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Climate change
Displaying 5281 - 5300 of 6887 articles
The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
Can concern for the environment survive in the age of Trump and Brexit?
Managers from carbon intensive companies are holding off on long term emissions strategies because of uncertainty around regulations and policies, new research finds.
For three years, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have grown little or not at all, opening a window of opportunity to halt climate change.
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world’s options on how to react.
Study shows the footprint of climate change is already vast and that species are trying to adapt to rising temperatures.
The halls of the Marrakech climate summit have been filled with fearful talk about Donald Trump’s presidency. But there is hope that the Paris climate treaty can weather the political storm.
Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2°C slipped out of reach.
Americans have elected an anti-sustainability President. Here’s how it has gone down at COP22.
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
The president-elect has made some worrying noises on a range of issues, and from Australia’s perspective the most worrying of all is the relationship with China.
Many models used by policy-makers suggest we’ll have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - but if we can’t, we have to get much more serious about cutting emissions.
A key strategy for President-elect Trump is to turn the US inward, both economically and politically. This bodes badly for Africa.
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
The differences between the two candidates on key policies are stark, and the result will have major implications around the world.
East Africa is a region that will be hit hard by climate change. COP22 in Morocco presents an opportunity for the region to take steps to mitigate these possible harsh effects.
At 2°C of warming and beyond, many megacities will have to cope with increased flood-risk.
Whether it’s Clinton on Trump in the White House, progressive action on climate change in America - and therefore globally - is going to take a hit.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
-
Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
-
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
-
Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
-
Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
-
Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
-
Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
-
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
