A former UN adviser explains what happens at climate summits like COP26 and why people fear this one won’t meet its goals.
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Countries are expected to commit to more ambitious targets for 2030, but how they will achieve them is still up for debate.
The coronavirus pandemic caused the UN’s annual climate conference to be postponed by a year, but it was also responsible for a drop in carbon emissions. Is it enough and will it last?
Three decades of growing scientific certainty about climate change have yielded little progress.
The Trump presidency has been a godsend for an Australian government apparently uninterested in significant climate action. But with Trump well behind in the polls, that’s set to change.
Earth has only a few chances to avert catastrophic climate change. At the COP25 in Madrid, we blew one of them.
Recent bushfires and extreme weather are just a small taste of what is to come if this week’s climate negotiations in Madrid fail to deliver.
Some experts say it’s better for the US to leave the Paris Agreement than white-ant it from within. But that ignores the damage that a US withdrawal would do to the fabric of global multilateralism.
With Donald Trump overturning Obama’s Clean Power Plan, and some Australian politicians cheering him on, will we always have Paris?
Recent global climate talks at COP22 saw a growing role for businesses, NGOs and the state of California – a promising sign for action on climate change in the face of U.S. inaction.
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
Just 11 months after the Paris climate talks, the resulting treaty has come into force. The rapid ratification looks set to heap even more pressure on Australia to come up with a credible climate policy.
Negotiators face a daunting task at the COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh: Build on the momentum of Paris and resolve difficult questions over money for poor countries.
The burden of mitigating and adapting to climate change must be shared between all parts of society.
At the halfway mark in the Paris climate talks, progress is still frustratingly slow as the negotiations risk falling prey to old stalling tactics.
What have businesses put on the table ahead of the Paris climate summit in December?
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said his government’s 2030 climate target will be good for the environment and jobs – and good for protecting the nation’s coal industry.
The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, as Nick Rowley writes in part 2 of his three-part essay on the 2015 Paris climate talks, there are several reasons why this year won’t see another flop.
The US has made its formal submission of climate targets beyond 2020. But Australia continues to twiddle its thumbs.
From the 1950s until the 1990s, nuclear weapons were viewed as the greatest threat to human life on the planet. Jonathan Schell, whose book The Fate of the Earth (1998) perhaps best crystallised the danger…
Top contributors
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Science Policy, University of Sussex
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retired, The University of Western Australia
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Formerly Lecturer in Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia
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Assistant Professor, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow with the Law Futures Centre and the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Griffith 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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Research fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
