How to place disabled people, who are some of the most vulnerable, at the centre of climate change negotiations.
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Expertise can come from generations of farmers building up understanding of local weather patterns or Indigenous knowledge about forests and rivers.
Six young climate activists and negotiators at Cop30 shared their hopes and demands.
The realities of climate and land use change are jarringly obvious in Amazonia.
National leaders may be struggling to agree, but businesses see the economic benefits of clean energy, states are cutting emissions, and people everywhere are more cognizant of their actions.
Microsoft, Walmart and a few other high-profile companies made news for scaling back their public climate commitments. However, a closer look at the numbers shows commitments are still booming.
Getting aid to countries before the storm or drought hits is one response increasingly being used to limit the damage.
Countries have promised to reduce their fossil fuel subsidies to fight climate change, but that’s harder to do than it sounds, as an energy law expert explains.
A deep dive into 866 public companies and 1,413 carbon projects reveals some twists in who relies on cheap offsets and who chooses to cut their own emissions instead.
The UN climate conference brought some progress. A former UN official who has been involved in international climate policy for years explains what has to happen now for that progress to pay off.
Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
Who wins, who loses and whose natures are being talked about when nature-based solutions are proposed?
It’s easy to spot outright rejection of the facts on climate change. But it’s far harder to see our own biases and excuses that lead us to delay or deny the need for real action.
From 3D printing using plastic waste to growing cherry trees in the Himalayas, young people are not sitting idle while the world burns.
From media coverage to story books, children are consistently represented as prophets or puppets in the midst of climate emergency. It’s time for that to change.
In order to achieve progressive change and combat the climate crisis, workers need to help build a movement powerful enough to challenge the status quo.
Few feel the pain of the Great Barrier Reef’s decline more acutely than the scientists trying to save it. Ahead of a UN climate summit, two researchers write of their grief, and hope.
More and more evidence has accumulated which shows that changes in global and regional climate over the last 50 years are almost entirely due to human influence.
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Associate Professor of Employment Relations, GEM
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University
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Associate professor, James Cook University
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PhD Researcher, Development Studies, University of Antwerp
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Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
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Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
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Research Chair, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University