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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.

Adaptation Impacts Future Warming Food & Water Human Security

Heat to Hunger

Climate-driven food insecurity threatens global stability; Australia must act urgently to assess and address escalating security risks.

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Degrees of Risk

Financial systems risk collapse as climate models ignore cascading impacts of 3°C warming and systemic instability.

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Climate Reality Check

Warming beyond 1.5°C is imminent; only emergency-scale action can prevent catastrophic, irreversible, self-reinforcing climate impacts this century.

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Fatal Calculations

Climate economics has consistently downplayed future climate damage and risk.

Climate Emergency Defined

A focused assessment of whether climate risks now justify an emergency response.

Economics Mobilisation Risk Analysis Policymaking

War: What Is It Good For?

A full-scale, WWII-level mobilisation is now essential to prevent climate collapse and restore safe climate conditions.

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Climate Code Red

This urgent call for immediate climate action reshaped global approaches and framed climate change as an emergency.

Papers

Understanding Climate Risk

Policymakers and scientific institutions like the IPCC place too much emphasis on middle-of-the-road probability estimates rather than plausible worst-case outcomes.

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Featured

Warming has Reached 1.5°C

Global warming has hit 1.5°C, but that is not safe. What does that mean for climate advocacy?

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Accelerating Climate Disruption

The strategy to reduce, remove and repair.

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Reclaiming “Climate Emergency”

How should the term “climate emergency” be understood?

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Net Zero 2050: A Dangerous Illusion

Net zero 2050 plans risk locking in fossil fuel use for many decades, leading to dangerous warming and economic instability.

Economics Climate Science Targets Policymaking

Mobilisation Risk Analysis Politics Policymaking

COVID-19 Climate Lessons

COVID-19 revealed global unpreparedness; climate disruption demands urgent, science-based leadership and coordinated risk management action.

Decarbonisation Energy Finance Politics

Climate Contagion

An economic tipping point signals fossil-fuel decline, new economy growth, and urgent financial contagion preparedness.

Australian Local Government Climate Emergency Declarations

How climate emergency declarations influence Australian councils' policies.

Decarbonisation Mobilisation Advocacy Targets

Articles

Disordered & delusionary thinking

Australia's expanding fossil fuel exports are undermining renewable energy progress and national security.

Energy Economics Politics Policymaking

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 13: Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers addresses the National Press Club in The Great Hall on May 13, 2026 in Canberra, Australia. The Labor government’s 2026-27 Federal Budget handed down on May 12, 2026 focuses on cost-of-living relief, housing affordability, and defence spending, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers faces pressure to deliver economic stability ahead of a federal election cycle. (Photo by Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images)

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Budgeting For Denial

Australia’s budget ignores escalating climate risks, deepening future national vulnerability.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/Shutterstock (16830184a) Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Cda-Finland-Five-Things, Davos, Switzerland - 20 Jan 2026

Authoritarianism is Undermining Climate Action

Authoritarianism is stalking nations and global institutions, and climate barely rated a mention at Davos this year.

Economics Politics Policymaking

"Out of order" signs cover fuel pumps at a petrol station in Sydney, Australia, March 19, 2026. REUTERS/Hollie Adams TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Energy Security is a Climate Issue, Too

Energy, human and climate security are all converging into one story.

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Forging the Electric Age

Industrial electrification will shape the next global economic order.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: A person walks past a sale signage reading 'Handle Heat' in a heatwave conditions on George Street on January 08, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)

Climate Policy-Making off the Rails?

A one-sided emphasis on adaptation distracts from decarbonisation focus.

Adaptation Future Warming Policymaking

TOPSHOT - This picture taken on December 4, 2019 shows a passenger aircraft flying across the setting sun in Sydney, as smoke haze continues to hang over the city with more than 50 bushfires still burning across New South Wales. - Australian authorities on December 5 said the toxic smoke that has enshrouded Sydney for much of November is unprecedented, as residents donned masks and cranked air conditioners in the hope of respite. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) (Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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In the Burning Days

Northern Australia faces escalating climate risk amid defence and fossil expansion.

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 07: Aerial views of The Great Barrier Reef are seen from above on August 7, 2009 in Cairns, Australia. A recent report by marine scientist Charlie Veron claims that the reef will be so degraded by warming seas that it will be gone within 20 years, and that this situation is now irreversible. He goes on to predict that once carbon dioxide levels hit levels predicted between 2030 and 2060, that all reefs will become extinct and their ecosystems would collapse. The area pictured is also where conservation celebrity Steve Irwin was killed by a singray. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

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Coral in Crisis

Global temperatures have likely reached 1.5°C, with accelerating warming driven by rising CO2 levels.

TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 04: Seen is a general view of a blocked major intersection in the flooded Townsville suburb of Idalia on February 04, 2019 in Townsville, Australia. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has warned Townsville residents that flooding has not yet reached its peak as torrential rain continues. The continued inundation forced authorities to open the floodgates on the swollen Ross River dam on Sunday night. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)

At the Climate Crossroads

Climate risks are escalating rapidly. The 1.5°C threshold has been surpassed, pushing us toward devastating tipping points.

Adaptation Impacts Politics

A Solarpro employee holds a LG Electronics Inc. NeON R 370W solar panel ahead of installation on the rooftop of a residential property in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, May 17, 2021. Australia is the global leader in generating electricity from the sun. Some 27% of buildings had a solar system on their roof at the end of 2020, the highest proportion in the world, according to figures from BNEF. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Grid Next Door

Solar, wind, and sodium: the clean power trio Australia isn’t using fast enough.

Decarbonisation Energy

Another Year, Another Record

2024 broke temperature records amid deadly climate disasters, failing policies, and accelerating risks from ocean and tech impacts.

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AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 03: A load of coal is loaded onto a ship berthed at the Port of Newcastle in Australia, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2007. Coal prices rose to a record for a third straight week at Australia's Newcastle port, a benchmark for Asia, as snowstorms in China cut exports, adding to supply disruptions in Australia and South Africa. (Photo by Andy Shaw/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Economics Climate Science Policymaking

The Net-Zero Myth

Leading economists warn net-zero scenarios are based on flawed models unfit for guiding urgent, risk-aware climate policy.

Climate Politics in the Age of Emergency

Call for Australia to go onto a ‘war’ footing on climate change.

Mobilisation Advocacy Politics Policymaking

Podcasts

UK

Drawdown Solar Reflection Climate Science Future Warming Tipping Points

2025 in Climate Review

AMOC instability, the risks of overshoot, and Emergency Briefings.

USA

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Facing the World at 3°C

The catastrophic risks of a 3°C world and the urgent need for honest climate risk assessment and decisive leadership.

USA

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Cooling a Livable Planet

Outdated risk models and delayed action are pushing us toward dangerous climate thresholds.

UK

At the Point of Systemic Collapse

Climate change is accelerating, creating urgent risks for ecosystems, human security, and the future.

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Videos

Watch

Delivering Maximum Protection

An Effective Goal For A Climate Emergency Response

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Projects

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 23: The Sydney Opera House is seen on September 23, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Severe wind storms in the west of New South Wales have blown a dust cloud that has engulfed Sydney and surrounding areas. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Advocacy

Safe Climate Plan Project

A Whole-of-Society Framework for Restoring Safe Climate Conditions

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Advocacy

Strategic Capacity Project

Building the Conditions for Stronger Climate Responses

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Events

USA

Event

Plan C for Civilization

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Media

Australia should join the global effort to cool the planet and fulfill its Antarctic responsibilities

Calls on the Australian Government to help lead a global mission to restore safe climate conditions, including urgent research into safe short-term planetary cooling.

11 July 2025

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Financial sector risks repeating Global Financial Crisis mistakes on climate change

Can the banking system survive climate warming of 3°C

16 August 2021

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Press

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

Drawdown Energy Efficiency

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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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

Mobilisation Future Warming Advocacy Targets

Peter Garrett and Michael E. Mann. Photo Julian Meehan

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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