All posts by Frank Jotzo
Labor’s climate change bill is set to become law – but 3 important measures are missing
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As of Wednesday night, Labor’s climate change bill was poised to pass the Senate after the government agreed to amendments proposed by independent senator David Pocock to improve accountability and transparency. The law would set a national emissions…
the 47th parliament must be a contest of ideas for a hotter, low-carbon Australia
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Climate change and reducing emissions has figured little in the 2022 federal election campaign. But after many years of inadequate national climate policy, the need for sensible, long-term measures is now dire. The first task of the government…
IPCC says the tools to stop catastrophic climate change are in our hands. Here’s how to use them
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Humanity still has time to arrest catastrophic global warming – and has the tools to do so quickly and cheaply, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found. The latest IPCC assessment report, the world’s definitive stocktake…