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Climate change affects groups very differently. Here’s how Australians facing climate shifts now are responding.
Amid a number of major crises, the world clearly needs radical change. But what will it look like? The desire to return to pre-pandemic ‘normal’ is powerful, but ‘normal’ is what got us where we are today.
Myths about the relative costs of tackling climate change continue to hold back progress.
The findings of a new study suggest mistrust in climate science and uncritical faith in “alternative science” lead people to reject consensus science and generate alternative explanations.
Liz Truss has appointed a loyal cabinet with varied environmental credentials. What will this mean for UK climate action?
The science tells us this is our last chance to avert planetary disaster. Accepting our feelings of intense loss – for ourselves and the Earth – can propel us into action, writes Joelle Gergis.
While a US transition to renewable energy by 2030 is possible, streamlined policies with clear goals and incentives are necessary to get there, says an industrial engineering professor.
The Greens backed Labor’s moderate emissions cuts to avoid being seen as unwilling to compromise. But it’s only the start of a new wrestle over climate ambition.
For Pacific Islands, climate change trumps all other threats to their security. While they welcome Australia’s new emission targets, this is an issue of survival that demands greater ambition.
While Australia worries about Chinese influence, Pacific nations are more worried about climate change. By boosting climate ambition, Australia could be the region’s security partner of choice.
The environmental movement is now tightly woven into communities across Australia and its demands are clear. Politicians ignore it at their peril.
The rise of teals and Greens challenges Labor to take more ambitious climate action, but room to move is constrained by pre-election commitments.
More of the curriculum is devoted to climate change, but it’s still not presented holistically. Teachers also need more training and resources to help them prepare students for a changing climate.
Climate artists can offer a vision of tangible networks, activities, behaviours and lifestyles that, rather than damaging the planet, support planetary — and personal — health and well-being.
Every tenth of a degree makes climate change significantly worse.
Voting rights in Canada have changed over time to become more inclusive. Challenging age discrimination in Canada’s election system could be the next step in expanding and strengthening our democracy.
Electricity, not what the EU calls ‘renewable gases’, offer the fastest route to decarbonising heating.
Behaviour change would also help tackle the climate, nature, food and fuel emergencies.
How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming – and its consequences.
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, and Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, Climate Leadership, Cardiff University
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
