climate change

Sustainable Development Goals

Rapid progress for Australia on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is possible and could deliver a fairer, greener, more prosperous nation in 2030 – if managed properly – new UNSW research has found.

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Prominent scientist will tackle saving humanity from catastrophic damage to its life support systems and an impending climate change catastrophe. 

Mountain pygmy possums

Palaeontologists look to the fossil record to come up with a new strategy to save the endangered mountain pygmy-possum from becoming a climate change casualty.

UNSW Professor Jeremy Moss

UNSW Professor Jeremy Moss explains the significance of the global environmental movement, and the importance it holds on climate change.

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Dr Gloria Pignatta is a Scientia Fellow at UNSW Built Environment. She designs advanced technologies and passive strategies to improve building energy efficiency and mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon in a changing climate.

city storm

A call to make our cities more resilient to climate change could drive one of the largest new infrastructure builds in history.

mining

Australia cannot distance itself from moral responsibility for emissions from exported fossil fuels.

Nepal forest

Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.

Climate change rally

Mass strikes help target the psychological factors most important for acting on climate change, by emphasising social norms and reinforcing the effectiveness of collective action.

A truck transports coal from an open cut mine in Queensland

A lecture hosted by UNSW’s Practical Justice Initiative will discuss how urgently we need to act to stop the impact of coal and liquefied natural gas exports on climate change.

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