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18 February 2019

With climate protection, Labor can turn the table on government’s fear agenda

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  French Polynesian President Edouard Fritch and Australian Foreign Minister,Marise Payne leave their handprints during the signing of th...
17 February 2019

Best climate video ever? A Swedish Teenager's Compelling Plea on Climate

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On an email list I am on,  this video was described as "the best climate video ever".  Best ever?  I don't know, but it's ...
14 January 2019

COP24: Capricious foes, Big Sister and high-carbon plutocrats

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Note: If you want to know what really went on at the December UN climate policy talks in Katowice, Poland, Prof. Kevin Anderson, with his ...
10 December 2018

Big oil and gas nations sideline the science at Katowice, even as emissions rise and warming accelerates

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By David Spratt Delegates at COP24, Katowice. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth Just as four big oil and gas producers block the UN clima...
20 November 2018

Blue Carbon: an effective climate mitigation and drawdown tool?

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by Alia Armistead Blue carbon is increasingly being championed by organisations and governments as a tool for climate change mitigation a...
22 October 2018

World acknowledges unprecedented climate challenge, so what should a Labor federal government do?

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by David Spratt,  published at RenewEconomy Quite suddenly, in the wake of the recent IPCC report, it's become commonplace to talk a...
15 October 2018

New IPCC climate report actually understates threat, researchers say

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Aftermath of Hurricane Michael, Florida, October 2018 By Scott Waldman , first published at E&E News The United Nations climate re...
10 October 2018

The UN chief calls for emergency climate action, but what does that actually mean in practice?

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by David Spratt Download guide as PDF “We face a direct existential threat” on climate for “the emergency we face”, UN Secretary Gener...
03 October 2018

How to communicate the climate emergency

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Download guide as PDF What are effective ways of engaging people in conversation about the gathering climate crisis and the need for a...
19 September 2018

IPCC's political fix on 1.5°C will undermine its credibility

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by David Spratt [updated 19 September 2018] The forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5°C w...
13 September 2018

When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency

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Participants in this week's Darebin Climate Emergency conference in Melboure. Photo: John Englart by Paul Gilding People engaged i...
20 August 2018

Take unprecedented action or bear the consequences, says eminent scientist and advisor

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By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop “Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprec...
02 August 2018

This northern summer’s heat waves could be the strongest climate signal yet

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In El Salvador, many farmers have lost their lost corn crops to drought this summer. Agriculture is suffering in the high heat and dry c...
23 July 2018

Minerals Council still dangerously wrong on coal and climate, says former senior coal executive

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by Ian Dunlop , first posted at RenewEconomy After 30 years of inaction, the focus on climate risk is accelerating as the physical impa...
09 July 2018

The straight-forward climate question Josh Frydenberg will not answer

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by David Spratt Climate warming has been a factor in the Darfur crisis. Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farra Is climate change an existential...
17 June 2018

Our energy challenge in 6 eye-popping charts

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Renewable energy is winning and coal is on the skids. Disruption of the fossil fuel industry is well under way, and the global energy syst...
17 May 2018

Senate report recognises climate change as existential risk, but fails to draw the obvious conclusions

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Download the Breakthrough report on climate and security risks by David Spratt Climate change is “a current and existential national s...
10 May 2018

What goes up must come down: It's time for a carbon drawdown budget

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  by David Spratt There is no carbon budget left for 1.5°C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne...
30 April 2018

The fiduciary responsibility of politicians and bureaucrats in the era of existential climate risks

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by Ian Dunlop First published at Renew Economy   “Fiduciary: a person to whom power is entrusted for the benefit of another”“Power is re...
05 April 2018

1.5°C of warming is closer than we imagine, just a decade away

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by David Spratt, first published at Renew Economy Also available in French Updated 16 April 2018 Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent,...