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Ten years ago today, Kevin Rudd spoke at the National Climate Summit at Parliament House, in Canberra, famously declaring climate change to be “the great moral challenge of our generation”. Rudd, in alliance…
After 12 years, The Climate Institute is shutting down having failed to find financial backing for its brand of “centrist, pragmatic advocacy” on climate policy.
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The idea of clean coal has been around for 40 years, but remains a pipe dream.
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The 1992 and 1993 cabinet papers confirm that Australia was a reluctant player in international discussions about climate change and environmental issues under Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Ten years ago on Saturday Prime Minister John Howard announced the Coalition government would investigate an emissions trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced plans to ratify the Paris climate agreement, a day after US participation in the treaty was thrown into dought by Donald Trump’s election victory.
Malcolm Turnbull has said coal will be important for “many decades to come” – joining a long line of prime ministers who talked big on climate policy but found themselves talking up fossil fuels.
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Senior lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester
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Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
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Postdoctoral research associate, Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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PhD Researcher, University of Manchester
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Manchester
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1851 Research Fellow, University of Bristol & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester, University of Manchester
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Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester
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Lecturer In Pulsar Astrophysics, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
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Professor of Sociology and History, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Education, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester
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PhD student, University of Manchester
