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Anti-fossil fuel activism is gaining ground where previous climate campaigns have failed, largely because it resonates better with people.
The Trump administration is trying to spike a lawsuit against the US government arguing that there’s a constitutional right to a stable climate.
This weekend sees a major youth climate rally in Washington DC. But do young people really hold the key to overcoming climate inaction, or are we wrong to put our faith in their ability to drive change?
The oil giant is bowing to pressure exerted by shareholders and the authorities as it tries to catch up with its competitors.
Al Gore’s trip to Australia this week is the latest in a long line of visits - and not just because he has movies to promote.
More than 200 mayors have committed their cities to stick with the Paris climate deal no matter what the US does. Electric vehicles offer a promising route to making good on that pledge.
Messaging for the April 29 People’s Climate March is stressing collective resistance against President Trump. This theme may appeal to activists, but is unlikely to grow the movement.
The Greens have successfully cast themselves as the party of climate science. But to hit their climate goals they may need to become even more radical, by embracing technologies like nuclear power.
Climate activists are shaping the political debate with a revised strategy that focuses on the environmental risks of fracking for oil and natural gas.
Protesters could be tempted to add ‘criminal damage’ to trespass, thereby ensuring a more sympathetic trial by jury.
Environmental campaigners have employed an argument that they were forced into ‘illegal’ action but judges are still not buying it.
The global activist escapades that make up the Climate Games remind us that climate politics isn’t just confined to the United Nations summit in Paris.
An analysis of social media shows climate activists have seized on the Paris climate talks to spread the word, but dialogue with oil and gas industry is absent.
Naomi Klein has told the sidelines of the Paris climate talks that real climate action can’t be delivered without social justice too.
Thousands will take to the streets across the world ahead of the Paris climate summit - but how much difference have the past 25 years of climate marches made?
Hillary Clinton’s opposition to construction of the Keystone pipeline has little effect in the short term but reflects building “supply side” strategy of environmentalists to limit fossil fuel development.
Climate change ‘changes everything’, says the writer Naomi Klein. The only way society can respond is to change itself - and that will need everyone on be on the same page instead of arguing about it.
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Research Fellow in Industrial Decarbonisation Policy, University of Sussex
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Associate professor, DePaul University
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor Sustainability and urban Policy, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Research Lead Sydney Policy Lab, Postdoctoral Fellow Geography, Host of ChangeMakers Podcast, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
