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IPCC cities conference tackles gaps between science and climate action on the ground

  • Written by: Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
IPCC cities conference tackles gaps between science and climate action on the groundThe IPCC's first cities conference revealed the challenges in bridging the gaps between scientific knowledge and policy practice, and between cities in developed and developing nations.Cities IPCC/Twitter

Some 600 climate scientists, urban researchers, policymakers and practitioners attended the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC)...

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The Great War and Kings of War journey from the kill zone to the map room

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
The Great War and Kings of War journey from the kill zone to the map roomThe Great War uses scale models to depict catastrophe through a keyhole.Tony Lewis

Two plays about war, one utilizing children’s toys, the other blank verse. In many ways, they represent opposite ends of the military spectrum, the first, the oceanic filth of the kill zone, the second, the high-flown speechifying of the map room. Think of...

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What the Royal Commission can do if the banks don't play ball on evidence

  • Written by: Anna Olijnyk, Lecturer, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide

At the first round of hearings of the Financial Services Royal Commission, the counsel assisting, Rowena Orr QC, was unimpressed with the material some of the banks have provided. The Commonwealth Bank provided two submissions, the first of which, according to Orr:

…adopted a high level and general approach, which meant that it did not...

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We need to become global citizens to rebuild trust in our globalised world

  • Written by: Laura D'Olimpio, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
We need to become global citizens to rebuild trust in our globalised worldOur great moral challenge is to cultivate the habits of a critical, yet compassionate, global citizen.www.shutterstock.com

This is the third article in a series in which philosophers discuss the greatest moral challenge of our time, and how we should address it. Read the first article here and the second here.


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