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Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?
Bill Hare, Thomas Houlie
The fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin that could undo all Australia's efforts to cut emissions.
A special report on system transitions would make IPCC science more actionable
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
The IPCC reporting cycle is out of step with the international climate policy process. A special report on system transitions could help make IPCC science more actionable.
The G20's new target of tripling renewables by 2030 is welcome, but the world will only meet its climate goals if this is coupled with a fossil fuel phase-out.
What the new IMO climate targets mean for shipping emissions
Michael Petroni
The International Maritime Organization has agreed new 2030 and 2050 climate targets for the shipping sector. We take a look at what this means for shipping emissions.
Climate science beats climate fatalism
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bill Hare
Now that the Earth has warmed roughly 1.2°C, “once-in-a-century” heatwaves, forest fires, and floods are becoming more familiar to us. But there is still a massive difference between 1.2°C and 1.5°C, and the science shows that it is still possible to end this century at or below that threshold.