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The millions of people being uprooted by climate change do not benefit from the ‘stubborn optimism’ of environmental elites.

An excoriating critique on the pursuit of net zero is published in Professor Steffen Boehm’s essay anthology ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis’

Login Australia is 'standing at the back of the pack' when it comes to emissions cuts23/04/2021|6min America, Japan, and Canada have committed to cutting emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2030 but Australia is “trying to weasel our way out” of doing so, according to Climate Council of Australia’s Professor Will Steffen. “We’ve got to make commitments on that order or even more if we want to keep warming well below two degrees and we know the danger of going above two degrees,” he told Sky News. Professor Steffen said Australia is “standing at the back of the pack standing sti...

Bold challenge to decarbonise Australia in 15 years laid down by Climate Council Posted 4 updated 4 Renewables need to dominate our energy mix within the next decade, according to the report. ( Share Print text only Cancel A new report from the Climate Council lays out an ambitious challenge to Australian governments and industry: get carbon emissions to net zero by 2035.  Key points: Australia needs to reduce emissions by 75 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2035, the report says The US is expected to announce increased Paris targets as early as next week The EU is already in talks ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Once confined to scientists, environmental activists and those brave enough to voice opinions countering the socially acceptable, concerns over the climate crisis have slipped into the mainstream, so that the majority now readily admit that humans are on a very dangerous trajectory. A major impetus for this change in popular opinion was the release of the 2018 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, which warned that drastic efforts to curb global warming to below 1.5°C o...