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UK’s decision to close coal power plants is really a statement of the obvious, and does nothing to answer the problem of what to do afterwards.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
Using more accurate data, researchers find that waste disposal at methane-emitting landfills is two times greater than previous EPA estimates.
Australia’s new cap on emissions includes aspects of a “baseline and credit” emissions trading scheme. That’s cheaper for businesses, but means more regulation.
Much has been made of the domestic political roadblocks between US President Barack Obama and climate action. But by using existing treaties he can get around the hostile Congress and help cut global emissions.
Countries that drag their feet on climate action have fewer places to hide these days. Rules brought in at the 2014 Lima talks require them not just to set targets, but to publicly justify them too.
Is ambitious action on climate change a recipe for a significant hit to the economy and our living standards?
US President Barack Obama’s new climate plan aims to cut greenhouse emissions from the nation’s coal-dominated power sector by 32% by 2030. Will it get through, and how will it affect this year’s climate talks?
New research shows that we’ll have to remove carbon from the atmosphere for any chance of keeping warming below 2C.
The term ‘carbon tax’ is a political poison in Australia, thanks to the previous carbon tax which was actually an emissions trading scheme. Yet ironically, many economists prefer a tax over an ETS anyway.
A year after the demise of the carbon tax, we might expect both coal and greenhouse emissions to have bounced back, at the expense of renewables like hydroelectricity. Sure enough, that’s what happened.
To avoid dangerous climate change there is a finite amount of greenhouse gas emissions, in particular CO2, that we can add to the atmosphere - our global carbon budget. If we use our budget wisely, we have until about 2050 to transition to zero net emissions. But how do we get there?
The recent Lancet Commission report rightly pointed out that climate change is a huge risk to global public health. But it shied away from one of the main issues: the world consumes far too much meat.
China’s formal climate target shows that the world’s largest greenhouse emitter is determined to green its economy on an unprecedented scale - and that it can bring the rest of the world along for the ride.
The Australian Climate Roundtable unites business, environmental and social groups in calling for a strong climate policy. This unprecedented show of unity might even break down Canberra’s climate stalemate.
About 10% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions come from farming. Researchers are working on ways to address this piece of the global warming puzzle.
Greenhouse emissions from the aviation industry are still largely unregulated. The prospect of regulations for US flights sounds like progress, but it won’t happen without an elusive international consensus.
Could developed countries’ ageing populations help clean up the climate? New research suggests that a 1% increase in the proportion of over-65s delivers a 1.5% cut in carbon dioxide emissions.
Why we should look at emissions based on consumption rather than geography.
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Group Leader, CSIRO
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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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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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
