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Climate action depends on telling stories that make an impact, clarify stakes and inspire action.
Australia has the technologies to meet and exceed its new emissions target. The work now is to ensure they’re deployed at scale.
Climate-proofing Australia’s 29 rail networks won’t be easy – but here’s how it can be done.
It’s too early to make a full estimate of the costs of Alfred’s impacts. But previous natural disasters give us a framework for thinking about them.
A report into the insurance sector’s response to the 2022 floods outlined a detailed pathway to reform. But these steps alone won’t solve the growing problem posed to Australian households by climate change.
Global semiconductor manufacturing is already under geopolitical stress, but climate change ups the ante.
Smallholder farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Deliberate steps are required to support them and boost agricultural output,
According to a study by EDHEC, some investors could see the value of their portfolios plummet by 50% by 2050 as a result of the multiplication of extreme weather events.
Poverty drives vulnerability to climate risks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Women entrepreneurs in Africa face challenges which make them additionally vulnerable to climate change.
A reconstructed record of cyclone activity going as far back as 1850 has revealed interesting trends, both around Australia and globally.
Are we setting up individuals and families for ruin by allowing them to build back in areas where they can’t afford insurance? And should taxpayers bear the huge costs of future rescues and relief?
This Australian climate policy gives cause for hope, but will it really lead to a well-adapted Australia?
Images of water gushing into subway stations filled social media following heavy rain in New York City. Solutions are at hand – but it takes money and political will, an expert explains.
The arguments in favour of radical emissions reduction action, including the personal financial risks, grow more compelling by the day.
In Australia and around the world, failures in flood warnings can have devastating effects. But ‘humanitarian engineering’ may have the answer.
The unprecedented intensity of two summers of bushfires, first in the east and then in the west, offered harsh lessons for Australians. One is that some settlements must retreat from high-risk areas.
When disaster strikes, not everyone is affected the same way. Research shows the experiences of sexually and gender diverse people are frequently very different to those of heterosexual people.
Instead of telling people to buy more of the right type of insurance, we should be asking how insurance can work better for people.
Top contributors
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Associate Director at the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, EDHEC Business School
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Principal Investigator FiRES Project (SNSF Consolidator Grant), ETH Zürich, Switzerland // Honorary Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia.
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Academic Director Living Lab Northern Rivers, University of Technology Sydney
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Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; North-West University
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Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professeur de finance, EDHEC Business School
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Associate Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University
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Directeur de l'EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, EDHEC Business School
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
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Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Federation University Australia
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Full Professor of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland