Goals & Targets
Setting the direction to climate restoration
Reports
The Great Barrier Reef faces rapid decline; urgent, targeted actions are needed to restore ecosystems, safeguard species, and ensure survival.
Even at 1.2°C of warming, Earth’s systems are showing signs of tipping into irreversible change.
The 2°C limit is dangerously inadequate; irreversible tipping points are already triggered, leaving no carbon budget to prevent catastrophic impacts.
This urgent call for immediate climate action reshaped global approaches and framed climate change as an emergency.
Papers
A safe climate requires cutting emissions, removing excess carbon and investigating safe ways to cool the planet.
Global warming has hit 1.5°C, but that is not safe. What does that mean for climate advocacy?
The strategy to reduce, remove and repair.
How should the term “climate emergency” be understood?
Net zero 2050 plans risk locking in fossil fuel use for many decades, leading to dangerous warming and economic instability.
Current carbon budgets underestimate warming by ignoring feedbacks and risky assumptions about climate system behavior.
Urgent climate failure demands emergency action for maximum protection of all life, ecosystems, and civilisation worldwide.
How climate emergency declarations influence Australian councils' policies.
Articles
Humanity has failed to prevent dangerous climate change; urgent restoration is needed.
Podcasts
Exploring climate tipping points, 1.5°C, and why high-end risks must guide policy and security planning.
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Projects
Understanding Climate Risk and Strengthening Protection in an Era of Escalating Disruption
Press
A pioneer of the climate emergency movement and a powerful influence on environmental campaigners in Australia and internationally.
21 June 2022
Calculations of global carbon budgets have underestimated potential increases in global temperatures.
12 April 2021
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
Transitioning Australia entirely to renewable energy systems and transform our economy in ten years.
7 August 2008
Contributors
Philip Sutton
Climate Strategist and Environmental Advocate (1951-2022)
Thought leader advancing safe climate frameworks, restoration goals and mobilisation strategies.
Katherine Wells
Environmental Lawyer and Policy Consultant
Advises on environmental law, governance, regulatory frameworks and policy development processes.