While extreme weather conditions represent a considerable challenge globally, some communities have been living with (and adapting to) similar events for centuries.
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Staying below 1.5°C will require urgent, deep and radical changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
A too rapid transition to a low-carbon economy would threaten financial stability. A slow transition would run the risk of exceeding irreversible ecological thresholds.
The UK was part of the EU's collective pledge of emissions cuts ahead of Paris.
With consultation underway to improve the New Zealand emissions trading scheme, experts argue that a reserve price on emissions units could help rebuild confidence in low-emission investment.
Nuclear energy should be a possibility for African countries.
In 2017 18.8 million people were displaced by natural disasters, with floods accounting for 8.6 million. Climate change is poised to drive those numbers higher still.
We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies.
If there were enough floor-crossers to sink the package's emissions reduction legislation, that would effectively (though not literally) amount to a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
Keeping global warming to 1.5°C could significantly decrease the frequency of extreme climate events across Africa.
Canada wants to move towards a green economy and meet its Paris Agreement targets, but it has also just taken ownership of a pipeline. How can the federal government deal with this paradox?
Global warming will be most noticeable where the weather doesn't normally vary much, such as the tropics. But these places are also home to many of the world's poorest and least culpable nations.
Will the renewable energy transition end up creating yet more greenhouse emissions, as we ramp up the manufacture of wind turbines and solar cells? Not if their manufacture is itself powered by renewables.
A shipping industry summit is exploring routes to a greener future.
New Zealand has ruled out new permits for offshore oil and gas exploration as a step towards a transition to a carbon-neutral future.
After a long run of devastating typhoons, one country is holding the world's biggest corporations to account on climate change.
With the US announcement that it would withdrawl from the Paris Accord, several American states are mobilizing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Research can be spun, within hours, into a story of past failure. In fact, it's a case of continuous improvement.
Its plan to stop lending money for oil and gas projects embraces the spirit of the Paris agreement at a time when the U.S. is going in a different direction.
Canada's growing population and online shopping habits make meeting our emissions targets a challenge. With some targeted intervention, we can transform our economy, and society, for the better.
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PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Director, Climate Analytics (Berlin), Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Lecturer in International Relations and Environmental Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne
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Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Associate Professor, Asian Institute of Technology
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Melbourne
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Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
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CSIRO Scientist, and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer, St Petersburg State University
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor and VC's Chair, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
