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COP29: The untapped power of India’s self-help groups

Composed primarily of rural women, they’ve been a driving force behind social and economic empowerment, but could they transform from intuitive problem-solvers into organised, scalable forces for climate resilience?

Sustainability

Putting women front and centre in climate change reparations

Women from climate-vulnerable countries face devastating impacts and are disproportionately affected by disasters, which is why they must be included in the UN’s Loss and Damage Fund.

COP

The human health impact of climate change

The world has talked at great lengths about how climate change is an environmental crisis. But what about the human health effects that come from it?

Sustainability

The cruel inequality of climate change-induced disasters

People living with disability are disproportionally affected by climate change-induced disasters, which is why we need more disability-inclusive decision-making in climate adaptation plans.

Politics and society

Southeast Asia’s energy security challenge

How can its energy systems transition to become climate-smart, to withstand extreme weather, while also protecting social and economic priorities?

Sustainability

Hurricane Milton and climate change: A wake-up call ahead of COP29

The evidence is clear – without a concerted effort to mitigate climate change, the world will continue to face catastrophic weather events that threaten both lives and ecosystems.

Science

Getting serious on corporate climate-related disclosure

In a climate-related milestone, from January next year Australian companies will be required by law to report on their climate risks, opportunities, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Business

Australia has just been handed a map for getting to net zero

Emissions pathways act as a map of the future, showing us how to get from where we are to where we want to be.

Environment

Why the conversation about eco-anxiety needs some heat

Low awareness of the link between heat and eco-anxiety in Indonesia requires a more comprehensive strategy in the campaign.

Science

Can the tide be turned on Australian climate action?

Why have successive Australian governments found it so difficult to truly embrace the country’s potential to become a clean energy superpower?

Politics and society

Weighing up the worth of ‘viral-based’ policy in Indonesia

While virality holds values, state actors still hold responsibility for sensing and understanding the inherent problems, and recognising the urgency to address it through differing policy capacities.

Politics and society

Green economy summit: How can Australia get more from its relationship with Vietnam?

Vietnam is poised to play a significant role in the Indo-Pacific region’s decarbonisation. Now is the time for Australia to strengthen its strategic relationship with the country, and the broader Southeast Asia region.

Sustainability

Women bear the brunt of Asia’s climate failures

What does the future hold for the millions of women left to work in Asia’s agriculture sector battling a climate in collapse?

Politics and society

It’s about time: Climate and clean energy sit high on Australia’s ASEAN agenda

Australia must utilise its comprehensive strategic partnership with ASEAN to share knowledge and advance areas for collaboration, to accelerate the energy transition and green economy.

Politics and society

Game-changer: Putting the heat on climate education

Medical faculties globally have been slow to recognise the training needs of the next generation of doctors regarding the health consequences of a heating planet.

Medicine and health

Three record summers: A critical transition for Antarctic sea ice

Three consecutive extremely low sea ice summers strengthens the case for a new regime in Antarctic sea ice.

Science

Holding corporations to account on climate finance

There’s still more we can do within the Australian Sustainable Finance Strategy to help meet critical company sustainability goals.

Business

Climate solutions are already in our nature

From natural seawalls to mangroves, countries are starting to combat climate change with nature-based solutions. COP28 might drive more of these efforts.

Sustainability

Scrolling into stress: How climate fears hit youth

Young people are getting a dose of social media-driven eco-anxiety, but there are ways we can help them beat it.

Environment

COP28: Why going beyond net zero is necessary to protect public health

As we wait for global leaders to convene and chart the future course for the world’s population of eight billion, we can take proactive steps to protect health from climate change through multifaceted and sustained efforts that transcend the confines of net zero.

Medicine and health