Made in America: how Biden's climate package is fuelling the global drive to net zero
Oct 06, 2023 02:31 am UTC| Politics
This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australias energy transition. Just over a year since US President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, its...
The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet
Oct 05, 2023 03:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially...
Sep 29, 2023 09:14 am UTC| Law
From Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef in the North, to the Snowy Mountains in the Southeast, and jarrah and marri forests in the Southwest, Australia is home to incredibly diverse ecosystems. Many of our plants, animals,...
Temporary carbon storage in forests has climate value — but we need to get the accounting right
Sep 29, 2023 08:49 am UTC| Science
Forests and other natural carbon reservoirs play an important role in slowing and potentially reversing the effects of climate change. But any carbon stored in nature is vulnerable to either natural or human-caused...
Sep 29, 2023 01:57 am UTC| Nature
It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest net zero roadmap, showing it was still just possible to hold global heating to 1.5℃. In the last two years, weve...
Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035
Sep 23, 2023 03:17 am UTC| Nature
This years heightened drumbeat of extreme weather shows us how little time we actually have to slash emissions. It is now clear that going slow on cutting greenhouse gas emissions is much more expensive than taking...
What can board games teach students about climate change?
Sep 21, 2023 00:01 am UTC| Life
Among the worlds ever-expanding array of board games, a small but growing number deal with climate change. But are these games any good? As a professor of English who specializes in environmental literature, I set out...
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants
An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses