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These technologies could turn into a powerful tool for fighting global warming, and they have the potential to address historical climate injustices.
There are ways to reduce the risk of protests like France's yellow vests movement.
Canada's top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta's plan to combat climate change.
An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
Trump and Bolsonaro may be against any action on climate change, but they are not the norm.
Ontario's new environment plan scores poorly on conservative ethos.
For decades, economists have pondered the 'social cost of carbon' - the price worth paying to avoid the future costs of greenhouse emissions. But a new analysis suggests this quest is impossibly complex.
Drivers buy less gas when filling the tank burns holes in their wallets.
Multiple studies have found the overall impact on labor markets to be minor, even if some workers will need new career paths.
The gilets jaunes protests show we need to fight inequality for a just transition to a low-carbon society.
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.
The Labor Party's newly announced energy policy could finally set Australia's electricity sector on the path to a renewables-driven future. But policies are still needed to cut emissions elsewhere.
In order to address a warming planet over the medium and long-term, climate policy must be designed to be adaptable and indeed attractive to those across the political spectrum.
These policies, which are designed to slow the pace of climate change, don't have to cost taxpayers, and they do not appear to hinder economic growth.
Explaining how carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems work is simpler than figuring out how high those taxes and caps should be.
Exxon Mobil has a clear motive to back a new plan to tax carbon with its clout and money. And a carbon tax that is high enough to work might prove politically impossible to enact.
Climate policy is clearly a threat to the job security of Australian prime ministers, but it could upend our international diplomacy as well, with a string of key summits looming in coming months.
With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, our leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.
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PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
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Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, University of Western Australia
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Leader of ECI Climate Research Programme, University of Oxford
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PhD student in the Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
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Lynette Molyneaux is a Friend of The Conversation.
Researcher, Energy Economics and Management Group, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Peter C. Doherty is a Friend of The Conversation.
Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
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Co-director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW
