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Australia's government insists it is on track to surpass its emissions reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement. But while that may be true, it will only happen with some clever accounting.
Canada's top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
Three years after the Paris Agreement, negotiators have finally agreed (most of) the rules for its implementation. But there is still no way to compel countries to deepen their climate ambitions.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
We may only have 12 years to stop climate change and the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 seems more in doubt than ever. What can we hope to come out of COP24?
As leaders and negotiators head to Katowice, Poland for this year's round of UN climate talks, it is clear that there is still much work to be done to meet the goals set in Paris three years ago.
At a time when the rules-based trading system is being shredded and the Paris Agreement risks unravelling, it is vital that the G20 meeting between the two superpowers is a constructive one.
Making the transition to a sustainable energy future also means ensuring that affected communities - such as Australia's coal workers - aren't left by the wayside.
Bill C-69 will slow down Canada's efforts to transition to a decarbonized and sustainable economy.
While extreme weather conditions represent a considerable challenge globally, some communities have been living with (and adapting to) similar events for centuries.
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.
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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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CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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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, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia
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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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