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The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.
On the issue of a retreat from coal, Albanese is trying to walk both sides of the highway by wandering down the middle.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
How are oil companies positioning themselves for a post-carbon world? So far, cautiously.
The costs, and the pain, of climate change only increase the longer we wait to act.
With her climate strike, Greta Thunberg has upended climate politics and posed the key question of who are the real radicals in current discussions.
Québec courts ordered tobacco companies to pay smokers $15 billion for the health problems caused by their products. Could fossil fuel companies be next?
Had the EU eliminated all subsidies between 2010 and 2017, its emissions would have been 9% lower over the period and governments across the EU would have saved US$441 billion.
As the UN’s Climate Action Summit approaches, governments need to start doing more than setting targets. Here’s how they can make a start.
The use of fossil fuels has to end and be replaced by sustainable energy as quickly as possible. The Paris Agreement was a good start but states continuing to work together is key.
Geology will be key to any green transition, but its academic reputation needs an urgent makeover.
Fossil fuels are heating the atmosphere – but the fact that we’re burning them may not be the only reason.
If how we speak about the world we want to see is crucial in building support for climate change momentum, then what is visible and invisible, strange and normal, positive and negative, must change.
The fossil fuel industry depends on massive government support, which makes the public foot the bill for a harmful and uncompetitive industry.
China wages ‘war on air pollution’, but turning away from fossil fuels towards natural gas has its challenges.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that rising CO₂ is driving climate change, yet barely 50% of the public agrees. Did scientists get the story wrong? No, as the fossil record makes clear.
A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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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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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
