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

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Climate change was a top issue during the election campaign because the community is sick of inaction in the face of worsening impacts like sea level rise, bushfires, heatwaves and floods," she said. 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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The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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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. The facts are undeniable.

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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. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise.