Reports by the government’s top climate adviser require a graduate degree to understand. For the enemies of the green transition, that’s an opportunity.
If you are an ordinary Australian trying to get your head around the complicated science of climate change, do yourself a favour: maybe don’t ask the government agency set up to explain it to you.
The Climate Change Authority was established by the Gillard government in 2011 to elevate the national conversation on emissions. For 15 years it has pursued this mission mostly by turning out reports on the parlous state of the planet.
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Pragmatists concede that the process of annual international talks on climate change feels like it is, at best, treading water for now.
Turkie. Nepal and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) have signed a framework agreement on cooperation on climate change with the objective of reducing climate change, mobilizing carbon finance, an...
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First Nations delegates from around the world have gathered at COP31 to push for greater Indigenous leadership in global climate action.
