Without accounting for land use, Australia’s emissions have only decreased 3% since 2005 – not the 27% cut you might have heard.
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If Donald Trump wins the US presidency on November 5, his victory will have profound implications for other countries on many fronts. Not least of them will be climate change policy.
Weakening climate ambition as China strengthens its climate targets would undercut Australia’s strategy in our Pacific region.
Dutton on Tuesday reaffirmed the opposition was committed to the net zero by 2050 target but said they would only announce its medium term emission reduction targets after the next election.
Wildlife can take years or decades to respond to environmental changes made by humans.
Stabilising Earth’s climate depends on a lot more than deals struck at conferences like Glasgow. But those agreements set a frame for real-world decisions.
From weak 2030 targets to controversial rules around carbon trading, let’s take a look at the summit’s defining issues.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Senior Data Analyst, Our World in Data, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Head of Indicators and Assessments Unit, Zoological Society of London
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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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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Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, UNSW
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Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Newcastle