Last week thousands of Australian school children took time out from their studies to protest against a lack of action on climate change.  Publically, Liberal politicians posed threats of truancy and suggested they would be better off staying at school an ...

When major political change occurs is it because the arguments supporting the change triumph over the opposing position or is it because opposition simply acquiesces and walks away?   It would be easy to argue that right will eventually triumph over wron ...

Anyone who is interested in potential pathways to zero carbon should read the UNIPCC special report on the impacts of 1.5C of global warming.  In addition to documenting the impacts of 1.5C vs 2.0C the report also looks at four “four illustrative .. pathw ...

A German coal exit commission (1) made up of representatives from government, industry, consumers and environmental groups has just completed its final report. The report which was supported by 37 of the 38 representatives produced a road map for German c ...

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1) recently produced a special report on the impacts from a 1.5 degree C increase in global temperature.  The report details analyses and modelling that suggest the impacts from a temperature ...