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Policy & Planning

Business, investors still ignoring 1.5°C climate target
Many in financial and corporates sectors remain unaware of importance of 1.5°C target, or can’t gauge its relevance and apply it to business and investment.
Kate Mackenzie

Jun 22, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Misrepresenting German renewables: NYT does climate denial 101
New NYT columnist Bret Stephens is in good company in misunderstanding German energy policy and outcomes. Here’s where he goes wrong.
Amory B Lovins

May 12, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Australians join list of non-experts telling Trump climate science is wrong
A group of Australians have joined a list of so-called “eminent scientists” telling president Trump that climate science is baloney.
Graham Readfearn

Feb 28, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Senator Malcolm Roberts fails high school science in maiden speech
What happens when a climate science denialist gets things badly, horribly, terribly, and embarrassingly wrong.
Graham Readfearn

Sep 19, 2016

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Policy & Planning

154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science
154 Australian experts have signed on open letter to Malcolm Turnbull demanding urgent action on climate change.
James Whitmore

Aug 25, 2016

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Policy & Planning

We have almost certainly blown the 1.5℃ global warming target
We probably have only about a decade before we break through the ambitious 1.5℃ global warming target agreed to by the world’s nations in Paris.
Andrew King and Benjamin J. Henley

Aug 16, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Some facts on climate science for Malcolm Roberts
One Nation senator-elect and climate denier Malcolm Roberts has raised a number of questions on climate science and empirical evidence. Here are some answers…
John Connor

Aug 8, 2016

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Policy & Planning

State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
The world saw many other unwanted records tumble in 2015, providing ever more evidence for the effect humans are having on climate.
Andrew King and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

Aug 5, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Five indisputable reasons why we need to hit net zero emissions ASAP
Recent science and new developments have highlighted the urgency of reducing global warming emissions to “net zero” as soon as possible.
Jason Funk

Jul 11, 2016

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Scientists want rapid renewables deployment – temps could be rising faster than thought
New research model factoring in energy use per person warns world could have less time than expected to limit dangerous global warming, and must transition rapidly to renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 10, 2016

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CleanTech Bites

‘Jaw-dropping’ CSIRO job cuts to ‘gut’ climate science unit
As many as 350 jobs could be cut at CSIRO, as part of “sweeping cultural changes” that will ‘gut’ the organisation’s climate science department.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 4, 2016

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Geoengineering ‘no substitute’ for cutting emissions, new studies show
Attempts to limit climate change by removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere would not prevent the irreversible damage to the oceans.
Robert McSweeney

Aug 6, 2015

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