David Spratt
Declaring a "climate emergency" – and developing a climate emergency plan – is the only strategy that matches ambition to the scale of the problem.
Australians agree the nation ‘is facing a climate emergency’ requiring emergency action and that, in response, governments should “mobilise all of society” like they did during the world wars.
Overwhelming support for Melbourne to declare a climate emergency will be a shock to those climate advocacy organisations that have steadfastly refused to use such language.
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With climate protection, Labor can turn the table on government’s fear agenda
Climate change needs to be seen as an escalating and potentially existential risk to security in Australia, and to orderly relations between peoples and nations.
CleanTech Bites
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Fossil nations sideline science at Katowice, even as emissions rise and warming accelerates
In a deadly diplomatic strike, big oil and gas nations took a key scientific report out of the Katowice text, replacing it with an ambiguous formulation that merely notes...
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World wakes up to scale of climate challenge, so what should a Labor government do?
Here are six steps that could be taken straight away by a new Labor government to address the challenge of climate change, without legislation.
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Josh Frydenberg
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The straight-forward climate question Josh Frydenberg will not answer
Is climate change an existential risk to Australian society and the world community? It's not a difficult question, but one that climate minister Frydenberg has failed to answer.
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Senate report recognises climate risk, but fails to draw obvious conclusions
Senate report acknowledges the huge risks of climate change and the "threat to intelligent life". But it needs to do more than that.
Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent, likely in just a decade from now. That’s the stunning conclusion to be drawn from a number of recent studies.
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Warming past 1.5°C: Quantifying our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels
The climate system will heat well past 1.5 °C and perhaps up to 2°C without any further fossil fuel emissions, new research finds.
