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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?
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Senior lecturer, 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
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Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, University of Melbourne
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Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Chair, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, globalcarbonproject.org, Stanford University
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Professor working on climate change mitigation, inequality, sustainable development and energy policy, University of Cape Town
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PhD student at the Australian-German Climate & Energy College, University of Melbourne
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Royal Society Research Professor, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
