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Houses at risk can quickly lose value.
Analysis reveals some of NZ’s worst droughts occurred before 1950 – meaning recent experience may not reflect the full scale of future risk in a warming climate.
NZ’s world-first regime aimed to improve transparency in how institutions assess climate risk. So why are some choosing to say little about changes being made?
The number of days with summer conditions is growing by roughly six days more each decade since 1990, contributing to fire season, drought, energy demand and disrupted agricultural activity.
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
While NZ softens disclosure rules for large companies, investors are still factoring climate risk into decisions – with observable effects on capital flows.
Eroding the gains made in education has severe consequences, especially for girls.
Some Detroit residents spend as much as 25% of their disposable income on water bills. Many are struggling to keep up.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says this budget will tackle unfairness between generations. What about young people left with a neglected environment?
A new study finds the incredible diversity of lizards in Australia relates to a major upheaval in the continent’s climate more than 20 million years ago.
For the first time, an emissions and climate impact case has arrived at Australia’s High Court. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
Ocean carbon removal is picking up, just as Microsoft pulls out as a major funder of carbon removal projects.
Some countries are calling for the elimination of a process known as “investor-state dispute settlement”.
Like solar, the first households to embrace home batteries have been wealthy. We need to move away from first-come, first-secured schemes.
The concept of a ‘discount rate’ helps to explain why humans prioritize what feels good or easy now even when it leads to worse outcomes over time.
Not all problems are caused by personal choices.
Councils have no formal duties to reduce emissions, and there is a huge temptation for local politicians to look the other way.
It’s been a very warm and dry autumn for much of southern Australia – and winter looks set to be similar.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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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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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex, University of Staffordshire
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Engagement and Impact, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne