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OSFI’s guidelines are a small step towards making financial decision-makers more conscious of their influence on climate outcomes, but there is still work to be done.
Australia must recognise the complex risks associated with cascading natural disasters, and draw on the knowledge and experience of all citizens.
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.
Words matter. It’s vital terms like ‘crisis’ and ‘calamity’ don’t become rhetorical devices devoid of real content as we argue about what climate action to take.
The damage from storms, droughts and sea level rise is in the news almost daily. Some money is flowing to help poor countries, but what isn’t clear is how much impact the funds are having.
When plants moved from living in water to land, they had to adapt. How that happened can help address food security.
Oilsands producers can expect banks to do extensive reviews of their creditworthiness over the next several months.
Regulators, banks and policy-makers use stress tests to uncover weak points in how financial institutions operate and identify changes that will help buffer them from harm.
Will Don’t Look Up wake people up? Here’s what the research on climate communication says.
Pollution from more frequent floods and wildfires – exacerbated by the warming climate – is threatening human health and poses particular risks to the brain.
The rules around risk reporting are changing, but there’s still a long way to go.
Australia can take great strides forward in climate policy and action. A reactionary, incremental approach to adaptation will fall short. Now is the time to think big.
Businesses have long been a big part of the climate problem. They shouldn’t scale back environmental initiatives when it all feels too hard.
History shows how the states and territories can step into a policy breach when the federal government fails. It’s time they band together on electric vehicles.
This is not an imaginary future dystopia. It’s a scientific projection of Australia under 3℃ of global warming – a future we must both strenuously try to avoid, but also prepare for.
One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth’s climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
Instead of telling people to buy more of the right type of insurance, we should be asking how insurance can work better for people.
There’s a growing push among businesses, including the finance sector, to protect the climate and nature.
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Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Director, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Robert L. Ascah is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Fellow, Public Economics, The Parkland Institute, University of Alberta
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Ecologist, University of Adelaide
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Director of Food Innovation, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Director Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
