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Britain greets a new decade with substantially cleaner electricity, but challenges lie ahead to decarbonise its transport and heating.
There's no question Tesla's Cybertruck will face stiff competition in the electric pickup truck market. Here's why it has the edge.
Recent debates about the future of nuclear power in Australia make much of the potential of the next generation of reactors.
The Australian Labor Party's failure to turn climate change into a winning campaign issue holds lessons for the UK Labour Party.
A permanent fracking ban is needed to end the farce and shift resources into carbon capture and storage.
The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.
On the issue of a retreat from coal, Albanese is trying to walk both sides of the highway by wandering down the middle.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
How are oil companies positioning themselves for a post-carbon world? So far, cautiously.
The costs, and the pain, of climate change only increase the longer we wait to act.
With her climate strike, Greta Thunberg has upended climate politics and posed the key question of who are the real radicals in current discussions.
Québec courts ordered tobacco companies to pay smokers $15 billion for the health problems caused by their products. Could fossil fuel companies be next?
Had the EU eliminated all subsidies between 2010 and 2017, its emissions would have been 9% lower over the period and governments across the EU would have saved US$441 billion.
As the UN's Climate Action Summit approaches, governments need to start doing more than setting targets. Here's how they can make a start.
The use of fossil fuels has to end and be replaced by sustainable energy as quickly as possible. The Paris Agreement was a good start but states continuing to work together is key.
Geology will be key to any green transition, but its academic reputation needs an urgent makeover.
Fossil fuels are heating the atmosphere – but the fact that we're burning them may not be the only reason.
If how we speak about the world we want to see is crucial in building support for climate change momentum, then what is visible and invisible, strange and normal, positive and negative, must change.
The fossil fuel industry depends on massive government support, which makes the public foot the bill for a harmful and uncompetitive industry.
Top contributors
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Climate Justice Campaigner with 350Africa.org, PhD in Philosophy (Climate Ethics), University of Washington
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Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Departmental Visitor, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Research Fellow DECRA, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
