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'We can end the climate wars': Can Australia's 'greenslide' election provide renewed momentum for COP27?

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The country's national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement remained worryingly underpowered, aligned with as much as up to 4C of global warming, according to some experts. Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

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Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, with temperature rise currently projected to overshoot the 1.5C

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'An atlas of human suffering': Top figures react to IPPC's latest climate warning

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The situation, too, is only set to worsen as the planet warms, underscoring the urgent need to simultaneously drive down greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting preparedness for droughts, wildfires, storms, floods, coastal erosion, sea level rise, resource shortages and much, much more.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

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Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.