Is ‘climate anxiety’ a clinical diagnosis? Should it be?
(Image credit: Getty Image/BBC) Fiona Charlson, The University of Queensland and Tara Crandon, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, comprised of the world’s most esteemed climate experts, delivered its...
We’re building harder, hotter cities: Should we instead protect and grow urban green spaces?
Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary...
What do you mean we are running out of sand?
Photo by YoTuT, licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Annalise O’Sullivan-Moffat Although the importance of water as a resource is well accepted, fewer people know that sand is the second most consumed resource globally. Why is sand so important? Sand is a...
West Papuan campaigners want a ‘green state’. Could it help the planet?
Madang, West Papua. Photo by Jonathan E. Shaw, Flickr (CC BY_NC 2.0) By Ben Wray OPINION: Independence activists want to combine the best parts of liberal democracy with indigenous traditions. Due to the strength of their diverse indigenous...
Why is the UN calling for a gendered approach to climate – and how does Aotearoa stack up?
Photo by UN Women Gallery , licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Bex Ansell and Izzy Renton On November 14th, 2022, COP27 included the conference’s first-ever day devoted to gender. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, laid out three things the UN Climate...
Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity – can the COP15 summit deliver?
Photo by Tomas Sobek, Unsplash Nathan Cooper Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown. COP15 brings together parties to the UN...
How does COP27’s loss and damage deal really look to the Global South?
By Oxfam East Africa – Kuay Makuach, farmer, Lankien, South Sudan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Amelia Womack Warning: This article contains images of dead animals that some readers may find distressing After two weeks of fractious discussions, at the very...
COP27: Breakthrough? Or an inadequate response to the climate crisis?
IAEA Imagebank Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage” they suffer as a result of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit in Egypt wrapped up over...
What should New Zealand do to commit fully to tackling climate change?
New Zealand’s first wind turbine, built in Brooklyn, Wellington, in 1993. Wikimedia The Big Q is partnering with the University of Auckland’s Climate Systems Laboratory and Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society. During this...Subscribe by Email
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