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Listen to the fifth and final episode of a series from The Anthill Podcast, reporting from what happened at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes.
A former UN adviser explains what happens at climate summits like COP26 and why people fear this one won’t meet its goals.
This is a transcript of part 1 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Energy and climate policies aren’t always headed in the same direction, but if they work together they can tackle two of the biggest challenges of our time.
A report from top energy analysts warns that to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, investment in new unabated coal plant projects should stop now.
Plus how to interpret the outcome of the pre-COP26 summit.
The genius of the Paris climate agreement was getting major oil producing countries to agree to a target, but they still have widely different views of energy’s future.
Carbon emissions from maritime freight are everyone’s problem because of climate change.
George H.W. Bush, who has passed away aged 94, was US president when the world began grasping the climate issue in earnest. But he was pivotal in setting the US on a course of blocking climate action.
Thirty percent of global emissions will be generated from democracies governed by populist nationalist leaders who have very different playbooks than more traditional politicians.
The Paris Agreement was a breakthrough in global climate talks, but nations now face major hurdles to meeting long-term emissions goals – and maintaining global support for the deal.
The maritime pollution that drifts to dry land, causes an estimated 400,000 premature deaths and 14 million cases of childhood asthma each year.
Paul Keating’s government, faced with the prospect of international action on climate change, took steps to preserve the coal industry - a tactic that has been rebooted many times since.
Another round of UN climate negotiations kicks off in Bonn this month. With a Trump-shaped cloud hanging over the Paris Agreement, what approach can we expect Australia to adopt this time around?
It’s still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of the global carbon budget. But it sure won’t be easy, and we need to start now.
With Donald Trump overturning Obama’s Clean Power Plan, and some Australian politicians cheering him on, will we always have Paris?
If Donald Trump turns away from climate action as George W. Bush did, Europe and China can respond by forming an alliance that will turn the United States from a climate leader into a follower.
Top contributors
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Visiting Fellow, Science Policy, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director for Technology and Innovation at the International Renewable Energy Agency and Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Public Policy Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Academic position - Research Associate at the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, The University of Melbourne
