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Scorched dystopia or liveable planet? Here’s where the climate policies of our political hopefuls will take us

The federal election campaign takes place against a background of flooding on Australia’s east coast, where some residents remain in temporary accommodation a month after the disaster. It’s just the latest reminder Australia is set to become a poster child for climate change harms.

The Conversation

Climate change experts say India's heatwave offers the world a terrifying glimpse into the future

More than 1 billion people in India and Pakistan are sweltering through a record-breaking heatwave. Is this a taste of things to come for the world?

ABC News

Relying on carbon capture to solve the climate crisis risks pushing our problems into the next generation's path

As the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear makes clear, the 2020s must be a decade of transformation if we are to stand any chance of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Reservoirs aren't emission free

In response to recent studies, environmental groups are calling for regulations

Salon

Beyond electric cars: how electrifying trucks, buses, tractors and scooters will help tackle climate change

When you think of an electric vehicle, chances are you’ll picture a car. But there’s a quiet revolution going on in transport. It turns out electrification can work wonders for almost all of our transport options, from electric bikes to motorbikes to buses to freight trains and even to tractors…

The Conversation

Why some beaches, including in Queensland, are getting bigger despite rising sea levels

In a warmer world, rising sea levels could render many coastlines, beaches, and reef islands uninhabitable, or destroy them altogether. The 1.09℃ Earth has warmed since pre-industrial times has already heightened seas by 20 centimetres.

The Conversation

Stories about economic degrowth help fight climate change — and yield a host of other benefits

There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC’s working groups — those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation — use the economic term to discuss policies that are key to reducing…

The Conversation

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4 ways we can change our behaviour to adapt to the climate crisis

Only four months into 2022, and Australians have already watched several climate disasters unfold across the continent, from coral bleaching to devastating floods and bushfires. These are stark reminders of how climate change can wreak havoc on communities – destroying homes, lives and ecosystems.

The Conversation

Too many new coal-fired plants planned for 1.5C climate goal, report concludes

Number of new plants planned fell last year, but coal-generated electricity rose by 9% to record high

The Guardian - UK

Why there's still hope for stopping the worst consequences of climate change

Some transformations are widely regarded as bad, including many of those connected to climate change. But fear isn't always a good thing.

Inverse

Twitter says it won't allow misleading ads that contradict the scientific consensus on climate

"Climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized," the social media platform said.

Axios

Summer of 2021 was Europe’s hottest on record

Europe experienced its hottest summer on record in 2021, while being ravaged by floods, heatwaves and fires, according to a report published Friday by the European Union's Copernicus climate change service, showing that global warming is sharply on the rise.

France 24

Colonialism: why leading climate scientists have finally acknowledged its link with climate change

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the impact of global warming on our planet, published earlier this month, reiterates many of its predecessors’ warnings: chiefly that climate change threatens global disaster if we do not act to avert it. Yet it contains one key…

The Conversation

In Australia’s election campaign the silence on climate is deafening

Our major political parties – and the media – seem to have forgotten we’re heading for a cliff when it comes to temperature rises

The Guardian - AU

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How we can engage Muslims to promote clean energy: the case of Indonesia

The latest IPCC report recommends that we need to cut greenhouse gasses emission hard and fast as the Earth is heading towards an unlivable stage.

Salon

Crucial climate goal out of reach

The chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is only around 38%

Bangkok Post

Scrap hidden carbon subsidies

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should terrify policymakers and ordinary people around the world. The IPCC warns that some disastrous climate outcomes are now likely to occur not in the distant future, but within the next 15 years, or even the next decade.

The Conversation

Climate change will transform how we live, but these tech and policy experts see reason for optimism

It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed. But as two of the authors of a recent international climate report, we also see reason for optimism.

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1.5 vs 2C: What difference can a lousy half a degree of global warming make?

The chance to limit warming to 1.5C is slipping away. But will difference will it make if we overshoot by half a degree or so?

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP Steve Baker shares paper denying climate crisis

Green Alliance says ‘mask has slipped’ as member of Net Zero Scrutiny Group shares scientist’s paper on Twitter

Space

Earth Day 2026: Facts, history and ways to celebrate our planet

From its 1970 origins to a global movement, Earth Day 2026 highlights the power we all have to protect our planet.

The Guardian - UK

‘Historic’: global climate plans can now keep heating below 2C, study shows

But goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C will fail without immediate action, scientists warn

Bangkok Post

Renewables key to 'independence'

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shaken many long-held Western assumptions about the foundations of peace in Europe. Among other things, it has renewed policymakers' focus on energy dependence as a key strategic issue.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s new gas projects to struggle financially after 2030 if 1.5C climate goal met, report says

Analysis from Investor Group on Climate Change places economic viability of eight major fossil fuel projects in doubt

The Independent UK

Spoof Shell Oil adverts pop up at bus stops boasting ‘Climate breakdown? We cause it’

‘Shell: Burning your Future,’ one poster masquerading as an advert says

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