Stilt houses to help cope with floods in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
A US withdrawal would be game over for the Paris Agreement, but there’s still hope for the climate.
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November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2°C slipped out of reach.
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Americans have elected an anti-sustainability President. Here’s how it has gone down at COP22.
Marrakesh braces for the first round of climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
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The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
Donald Trump claims victory in the US election.
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The president-elect has made some worrying noises on a range of issues, and from Australia’s perspective the most worrying of all is the relationship with China.
Replanting trees is one of the better ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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Many models used by policy-makers suggest we’ll have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - but if we can’t, we have to get much more serious about cutting emissions.
Donald Trump’s election is bad news for the African continent.
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A key strategy for President-elect Trump is to turn the US inward, both economically and politically. This bodes badly for Africa.
Remote mountain regions like the Upper Mustang in Nepal are often neglected by the rest of the world.
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Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
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The differences between the two candidates on key policies are stark, and the result will have major implications around the world.
The Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania, is a cradle of mankind. Climate change will cause frequent and intense weather events in East Africa.
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East Africa is a region that will be hit hard by climate change. COP22 in Morocco presents an opportunity for the region to take steps to mitigate these possible harsh effects.
In New York the sea will rise by up to two metres.
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At 2°C of warming and beyond, many megacities will have to cope with increased flood-risk.
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Whether it’s Clinton on Trump in the White House, progressive action on climate change in America - and therefore globally - is going to take a hit.
Knowing when and where this is going to happen would be useful.
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Floods are a costly part of Australian life, which means we need to get better at predicting exactly when - and how severely - they are likely to strike in the future.
Talking ‘bout my generation: Younger people are concerned with climate, but how engaged are they politically?
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Unlike other issues, climate change has broad support among millennials across political parties and races. But it’s unclear that they’ll convert that into political activism.
Bhokul has faced the loss of her family’s land, and the loss of their income. Now climate change threatens her livelihood even more.
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Meet Bhokal, who has already lost so much due to environmental disasters, and who needs the Paris agreement to be a success.
Australia’s 2013 ‘angry’ summer was characterised by heatwaves and major bushfires. Such a summer will be normal by 2035.
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Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, and Australia’s record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
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Wind and solar farms are great. But we need to reduce energy demand and start taking carbon out of the atmosphere.
Australian company directors need to be aware of climate risks in their decision-making.
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Company directors who ignore or don’t properly asses climate related risks could be found liable for breaching their duty of care.
Hard decisions must be made, and commitments must be backed up by concrete action at this year’s climate conference in Morocco.
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The Paris climate conference made key plans to avert global warming. The conference in Morocco will hope to put these plans in action.
We’ve come a long way since the agreement was formed in 2015.
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November 3, 2016
Bill Hare , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ; Harald Winkler , University of Cape Town ; Julia P G Jones , Bangor University ; Luke Kemp , Australian National University ; Meraz Mostafa , Independent University, Bangladesh ; Pep Canadell , CSIRO , and Stefan Rahmstorf , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Experts agree that a new era for climate policy here. But the hard work starts now.