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Planting more native forests could help mitigate the causes of climate change, but unless funding is closely tied to successful outcomes, such projects face the risk of failure.
Company directors have been put on notice about their duty to consider and disclose climate change risks. And to do that properly they need to call on the expertise of accountants.
They don’t all support the same strategies for coping with it, but US mayors increasingly see climate change as a pressing urban challenge.
Although climate change threatens the world’s small island nations, many can find ways to adapt and preserve their homes and cultures – especially if wealthy countries cut emissions and provide support.
Donald Trump has fulfilled his pledge to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement struck in 2015, leaving China and Europe with the job of preventing other nations from following suit.
To help feed a growing world population, restore biodiversity and slow climate change, a geologist calls for a moon shot effort to restore healthy soil around the world.
How can we feed a growing world population while protecting the environment? One key strategy is to improve yields on small farms, which produce much of the food in the world’s hungriest countries.
Drought is a massive problem for southern Africa. The region requires adaptation and mitigation strategies if it’s to cope with the changing climate.
An Icelandic trial shows carbon dioxide can be pumped underground and stored as rock.
The countries that have contributed the least to climate change will experience the worst of its effects.
Any shift in the focus of climate change research at CSIRO should look at how to stop the problem and reduce its impact on Australia.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Climate change leads to increased likelihood of drought, but strategies for mitigation could make things even worse. How can we resolve the conundrum?
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.
Failing to stick to the world’s agreed global warming limit of 2C won’t just affect the atmosphere - it will play havoc with the oceans too, potentially ruining ecosystems on which much of humanity depends.
Unless Africa can manage the effects of climate change, the agricultural future for many Africans looks bleak.
Economic studies on the costs of climate action share a common message: action on climate change is cheap, and delaying it will be costly.
We need political intervention if southern African countries are to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Environment minister Greg Hunt hasn’t asked for any more money for the Emissions Reduction Fund. So what is actually in the budget, as far as climate change is concerned?
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Distinguished Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington
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University Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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