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At least two Liberals have indicated they are prepared to cross the floor to support Labor’s legislation to cut emissions 43% by 2030 Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Liberal MPs are urging Peter Dutton to let the party room decide a new position on climate change policy in the wake

Ohio State University researchers gauged responses to climate science versus scepticism and suggest facts bear repeating People’s views of the climate crisis can be influenced by the media, according to new research. But accurate scientific reporting only has limited impact on people who already have a fixed political viewpoint, particularly if that is opposed to

I have a new working paper with Matthew Ford looking at ‘Ergodicity Economics‘, which is an attempt to produce “a re-write of economic theory, taking account of the ergodicity question: are averages over time identical to expectation values (averages across the stochastic ensemble)?” In our paper we argue that ergodicity economics as currently theorised is

Business leaders and decarbonisation experts say a high level of collaboration and coordination is needed for transition Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The regional powerhouses of Australia’s industrial economy could slash their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% and become centres for multibillion-dollar investments in renewable energy, according to

Lightning kills 21 and millions of homes submerged while armed forces asked to help amid continuing storms At least 25 people died as floods cut a swatch across north-eastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater, authorities said on Saturday. In India’s Assam state, at least nine people died in the floods and 2

Urbanization disrupts landscapes and ecosystem functions, which poses threats to biodiversity, social systems, and human health, particularly among vulnerable populations. Urban land-use planners are faced with competing demands for housing, safety, transportation, and economic development and often lack tools to integrate these with protecting environmental functions. We identify three major barriers to integrating the benefits

‘Net zero’ global alliance of financial institutions, begun at Cop26, can still invest in coal and other fossil fuels Banks that have signed up to a global climate pledge, led by Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, can still invest unlimited amounts in coal mining and coal power, despite promises to