My colleague Dr Dan Calverley and I recently provided a detailed expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians before the UN Human Rights Committee. The case challenges the Australian government’s continued support for coal and gas exports and their contribution to climate change and associated human rights…
For a 50:50 chance of staying below 1.5°C, we’re using up the remaining carbon budget at around 1% every month. An ‘outside chance’ of not exceeding 1.5°C remains viable, but ongoing fossil fuel use is rapidly undermining it.
It is now impossible to address the climate emergency without making equity central to the solution. In 2015 the countries of the world came together in Paris and agreed to cut emissions to hold global warming to “well below 2°C” and ideally to not exceed 1.5°C [1]. The Paris Agreement…
Before we start releasing new content in earnest over coming weeks, we’d like to elaborate on the rationale for Climate Uncensored. Specifically, what’s with the name? It’s now thirty years since the United Nation’s first major Earth Summit (Rio 1992) recognised the urgent challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change. Yet,…