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Best-case scenario, how much are we locked into? Kletr/Shutterstock.com

July 4, 2017

If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

Richard B. Rood, University of Michigan

Set aside the politics. If by some miracle we turned off carbon emissions immediately, how would the climate respond?

It takes time, but this is how a real consensus is built. EPA/NIELS AHLMANN OLESEN/AAP

May 21, 2015

We need real consensus, not Bjorn Lomborg’s illusion of it

Robert Costanza, Australian National University; Frank Jotzo, Australian National University, and Steven Cork, Australian National University

There is a way for governments to find out the consensus on global issues such as climate change. But it involves painstaking, complex work, and an end to the adversarial clash of competing ideologies.

The IPCC’s latest report sets the record straight on science (again), but could be stronger on the economic case for climate action. EPA/Niels Ahlmann Olesen/AAP

November 3, 2014

New IPCC report: busting myths, both scientific and economic

Roger Jones, Victoria University

The headline statements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new Synthesis Report – unequivocal climate change, almost certainly driven largely by humans, and an urgent need to cut emissions…

September 19, 2014

Stern 2.0 takes climate policy analysis to a new level of exaggeration

Richard Tol, University of Sussex

Nick Stern is back with another report on climate change – colloquially known as Stern 2.0. It’s another offering from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Since his 2006 review, Stern has…

Bleached and healthy corals on the Great Barrier Reef near Queensland’s Keppel Islands. AAP

March 31, 2014

IPCC: Australia and New Zealand face greater fire and flood risk, damage to coral reefs

Roger Kitching, Griffith University

Australia’s coral reefs and mountain-top ecosystems are set to suffer from climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest summary of the research. The threats to these…

Top contributors

Frank Jotzo
Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
Roger Jones
Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
Steven Cork
Adjunct Professor/ Strategy/ Foresighting/ Ecosystem Services, Australian National University
Roger Kitching
Professor, Griffith University
Richard Tol
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Robert Costanza
Professor and VC's Chair in Public Policy at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Richard B. Rood
Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan