Knowing which parts of Africa best help to store carbon means funding and policy efforts can be directed to protecting and increasing this carbon ‘land sink’.
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A new study reveals that from 2050, Africa will suffer from food and water scarcity, and a massive loss of jobs in agriculture, unless climate change mitigation measures are put in place now.
A new report explores options for managing the period after global warming exceeds 1.5°C. This is called ‘climate overshoot’, because we’re pushing past the safe zone into dangerous climate change.
Degrowth will make the environmental crisis worse.
Victoria’s new renewable plan is welcome - but it relies on building unsexy and challenging new transmission lines across the state.
A new biodiversity index captures the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems and lays the groundwork for climate-smart approaches to management and conservation.
The research reviewed the available evidence on microalgae as food supplements, livestock feeds, biofertilisers, biostimulants and biochar feedstocks.
Universities in Kenya should be more sensitive to national policies aimed at addressing the effects of climate change.
As the ocean temperature rises, many marine species are moving toward the north and south poles in search of cooler waters, thus rewriting the menus of seafood restaurants on the West Coast of Canada.
With the world on track to blow the carbon budget for 1.5°C before the end of this decade, we must use offsetting carefully. It can no longer be a substitute for deep emissions cuts.
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that share is growing. Rapid climate change could make many cities unlivable in the coming decades without major investments to adapt.
Every five years nations must evaluate their progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. But this “stocktake” lacks detail making it difficult to measure progress on climate action.
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor and Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
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Research fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer of Educational Leadership and Policy, Kenyatta University
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Researcher in Systems Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral fellow, CGIAR System Organization
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
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Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Health, University of Alberta
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Research Scientist, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of the Witwatersrand
