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India should not be allowed to hold the world to ransom at the climate talks

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageIndia's Narendra Modi has the power to scupper US President Obama's climate legacy.Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

No one is going to allow the Paris climate talks to collapse. The memory of Copenhagen is still raw, and US President Barack Obama has invested enormous political capital in a successful outcome.

This situation hands great bargaining power (or...

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Who feels the heat first?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageBrian Snyder/Reuters

At yesterday’s COP21 science briefing, University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins displayed a chilling (pun intended) colour-coded world map. Nation by nation, it showed which countries are already experiencing obvious effects of climate change. Hawkins' map isn’t published yet, so I can’t reproduce it...

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Climate refugees: in the too-hard basket?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Climate change will force people to flood from poorer regions to Western countries in the coming decades. As many as a billion people will end up on the move as floods, droughts, rising seas and climate-related conflicts spread across the globe, sparking political crises in the countries they head to.

This is one of the narratives we hear about...

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  2. Back to the wall, Brough dramatically switches his story on Slipper diary
  3. Cyber breach at the Bureau of Meteorology: the who, what and how, of the hack
  4. Government policy, not consumer behaviour, is driving rising Medicare costs
  5. Read it and weep: the book trade needs more than parallel import restrictions
  6. Feminist childcare fight comes full circle as job-based policy fails children's needs
  7. Coal could still kill us
  8. Anglers have helped detect a shift in the habitat of black marlin
  9. Mal Brough adds to confusion by saying sorry if he caused confusion
  10. Innovation statement must reinvent the wheel – or throw it away
  11. Two days in at COP21 – what has Australia pledged?
  12. Three of many: problems for the evolving electricity industry in Australia
  13. Review: Political Amnesia – How We Forgot How To Govern
  14. The spectacular peacock spider dance and its strange evolutionary roots
  15. Why we can trust scientists with the power of new gene-editing technology
  16. Australia needs an innovation 'skunkworks'
  17. Gene editing in embryos is fraught with scientific and ethical issues
  18. Five things about innovation Australia can learn from other countries
  19. Australia's innovative future could get a boost from China's Five-Year Plan
  20. Pets and our health: why we should take them more seriously
  21. The camera is god: photographer Trent Parke grapples with an impossible humanism
  22. Why levying GST on banking has been in the 'too hard' basket
  23. To deliver more high-growth startups Australia needs an entrepreneurship system
  24. Going down the same old road: driverless cars aren't a fix for our transport woes
  25. Childcare funding changes leave disadvantaged children with fewer hours of early education
  26. Eyes down: how setting our sights on soil could help save the climate
  27. New Zealand takes aim at fossil fuels, but the numbers tell a different story
  28. Embattled Brough now in stoush with 60 Minutes
  29. Australia is set to ratify the second part of Kyoto Protocol – but it's not a done deal
  30. IMF embraces the redback, but China reforms must go on
  31. Politics podcast: Bill Ferris on innovation
  32. What is 'drug checking' and why do we need it in Australia?
  33. Tom Roberts anyone? A national survey finds the line in art appreciation
  34. Moral responsibilities to disclose your HIV status to partners aren't so clear-cut
  35. It will take more than piecemeal reforms to convince older Australians to downsize
  36. What will the NBN really cost?
  37. Testing teachers' basic literacy and numeracy skills is pointless
  38. Book extract: The Eighties – The Decade That Transformed Australia
  39. Response from Cory Bernardi's spokesperson
  40. Japan's whaling fleet sets sail again, and there's not much that can stop it
  41. Young driver crashes: the myths and facts
  42. What is innovation anyway, and why should you care about it?
  43. Junk food advertisers put profits before children’s health – and we let them
  44. We need more than condoms to prevent HIV in women
  45. Confused much? You need the Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
  46. Explainer: how Uber and Airbnb are reducing their Australian tax bill
  47. When climate change hits our food supply, city foodbowls could come to the rescue
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  49. FactCheck: how are the 12,000 extra refugees coming to Australia chosen?
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