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Collision Course
With the planet already effectively at 1.5°C of warming, and no sign of emissions peaking, the world is now on a dangerous trajectory toward 3°C.
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Too Hot to Handle
Australia’s climate-security response is dangerously inadequate, ignoring urgent scientific warnings and concealing key risk assessments.
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America First, Earth Last
Climate policy is failing to address rapid warming, risking extreme impacts and societal collapse.
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1.5°C is Here & Now
Global temperatures have likely reached 1.5°C, with accelerating warming driven by rising CO2 levels.
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A Whole-of-Society Framework for Restoring Safe Climate Conditions
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Energy security is now inseparable from national security
Delayed investment in domestic clean energy is leaving critical national vulnerabilities dangerously exposed.
18 April 2026
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How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine
more extreme weather and natural disasters - driven by a hotter climate - are an indication, because the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.
23 June 2025
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Energy security is now inseparable from national security
Delayed investment in domestic clean energy is leaving critical national vulnerabilities dangerously exposed.
18 April 2026
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‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds
A systemic failure, one that is already distorting public debate, undermining trust in institutions, and delaying urgent policy action.
25 March 2026
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How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine
more extreme weather and natural disasters - driven by a hotter climate - are an indication, because the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.
23 June 2025
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Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?
Scientific reticence is understating climate dangers, weakening public understanding and slowing responses proportionate to the threat.
12 March 2025
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Net-zero emissions by 2050: leadership or climate colonialism?
How fast does Australia need to reduce greenhouse emissions to play its fair part in responding to the global climate emergency?
20 September 2023
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Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business
By downplaying high-risk possibilities, policymakers are conducting a dangerously unprecedented experiment.
4 September 2023
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Anthony Albanese government refusing to release declassified climate security report
Forceful declaration calls for governments to set short-term zero emissions target to avoid catastrophic warming
23 August 2023
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Climate crisis: Australia must ready for ‘devastating’ regional disruption, MPs told
Failed states, a rise in authoritarian politics and heightened risks of conflict among potential threats outlined in thinktank’s assessment
22 August 2023
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MPs warned of “devastating” climate-fuelled disruption across Asia-Pacific
Federal politicians are being warned that Australia must prepare for “devastating” climate-fuelled disruption in the Asia Pacific region.
3 August 2023
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Philip Sutton, inspiring Australian activist who sounded climate emergency alarm
A pioneer of the climate emergency movement and a powerful influence on environmental campaigners in Australia and internationally.
21 June 2022
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Net zero emissions must be reached before 2030 for 2°C target, new analysis says
Calculations of global carbon budgets have underestimated potential increases in global temperatures.
12 April 2021
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First National Climate Emergency Summit gathers the big names along with anger, hope and mobilisation
A star-studded lineup in Melbourne mobilised support for putting the climate emergency wheels into motion.
20 February 2020
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Climate summit calls for urgent action after Australia's fire-hit summer
Forceful declaration calls for governments to set short-term zero emissions target to avoid catastrophic warming
15 February 2020
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Is it true climate change will cause the end of civilisation by 2050?
More than a billion people could be displaced by climate change by 2050, is that true?
6 June 2019
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Climate Change Threatens Societal Collapse Within Decades: Report
Extreme weather could result in a complete societal breakdown by 2050.
5 June 2019
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We must mobilise for the climate emergency like we do in wartime. Where is the climate minister?
Unfortunately, much scientific knowledge produced for climate policymaking is conservative and reticent
3 March 2019
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Corporate Australia in denial over climate change, former coal exec Ian Dunlop says
Not a single voice had been raised by peak business about the appointment of so-called climate change deniers to advise government.
15 August 2014
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Climate Code Red: In Conversation
Transitioning Australia entirely to renewable energy systems and transform our economy in ten years.
7 August 2008
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Code red: Climate skating on thin ice, authors say
Climate Code Red, argues that the climate change challenge is far worse than officially acknowledged.
18 July 2008
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