Emissions

Politics & Society

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Analysis

COP30 must match climate action with political will

Emerging climate researchers are hoping for adaptation funding, fair energy transitions and multilateral agreements that prompt real action at climate negotiations in Brazil

Sciences & Technology

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Analysis

Electric cars may be the ‘green’ choice, but they’re driving a scramble for critical minerals

The same forces that shaped the geopolitics of oil are re-emerging in the race to power the electric revolution

Sciences & Technology

The world’s most powerful ocean current could slow by 2050

New research finds the more Antarctic ice melts, the more the ocean is flooded by melt water, the more the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is likely to slow down – creating a vicious climate change cycle

Environment

How bots are driving the climate crisis and how we can solve it

The internet now makes up around 7.4 per cent of global emissions – with half of that made up of bots. But it’s possible to track the perpetrators of bot-related energy waste

Environment

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Opinion

Our deadly commitment to fossil fuels just keeps going

The government’s new gas strategy not only continues the extraction of carbon in the form of methane, but expands it

Environment

Climate justice at COP27

The as-yet-unmet costs of climate change adaptation and escalating disaster recovery are likely to be the key issues at COP27

Environment

Australia given serious health warning on climate change

Research monitoring the health impact of climate change highlights the escalating global emergency and the threat to the Australian way of life.

Environment

Tougher environmental policies can create economic winners

There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, our economic growth will be undermined. But new research finds the opposite is true

Environment

Creating clean transport fuels from waste

By extracting biofuel from agricultural and urban waste, researchers hope to create a low-cost, zero emission transport fuel for the future

Environment

Who’s running late for the Paris Agreement?

In order to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, should countries lower their emissions’ target to meet their climate change commitments?