A transcript of episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly pocast, including an extra from Don't Call Me Resilient on the treatment of migrant workers in Canada.
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Plus we hear about the hardships faced by migrant workers in Canada. Listen to episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The global pandemic caused an unprecedented drop in global emissions. But this is likely to rebound as economies start to recover.
The pandemic, along with other recent trends such as the shift towards clean energy, have placed us at a crossroad: the choices we make today can change the course of global emissions.
Some atmospheric pollutants actually help cool the planet, but the sudden shutdown of heavy industry threatened to purge them.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Yes, Australia's greenhouse emissions are a small part of the global total. But we're a rich, emissions-intensive country that could and should be setting a much better example to the world.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
An international report has found there's no future for Australia's coal exports.
In 2017 18.8 million people were displaced by natural disasters, with floods accounting for 8.6 million. Climate change is poised to drive those numbers higher still.
Labor's shadow environment minister, Mark Butler, said Australia is now "pretty much the only major advanced economy where pollution levels are going up, not coming down." Is that right?
Top contributors
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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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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Assistant Professor, Documentary Film, OCAD University
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PhD Candidate, Environmental Leadership, Cardiff University
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Research Manager, Crawford School of Public Policy; and Director at EcoPerspectives, Australian National University
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
