Emissions

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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?

Health & Medicine

Are Australia’s roads giving you asthma?

New research finds that living close to a major road increases your risk of asthma in middle age by around 50 per cent

Environment

A long climatic affair

The first extensive retrospective of our climate history has traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking hot temperatures as far back as the 1930s

Environment

the roadmap out of climate gridlock

A new method will let countries choose their own way of setting “fair” emissions targets - but someone has to take the lead