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Editor's note
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Donald Trump has made good on his threat to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement. In a speech overnight, he described the 2015 treaty as “simply the latest example of Washington entering into agreements that disadvantage the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries”.
Trump expressed a desire to renegotiate the agreement - something that does not appear to be possible under its current terms, which calls for nations to make a series of escalating but non-binding climate pledges over the coming decades. And as Christian Downie writes, China and Europe are already stepping into the climate leadership void that Trump has left in his wake.
Meanwhile, Australia remains committed to reducing our emissions, although there’s little political consensus on the best way to go about it. Fortunately, a report published today by CSIRO has found Australia is flush with good options: it outlines four different pathways to cleaner and cheaper energy.
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Michael Hopkin
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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Australia is awash with options for low-emissions energy.
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Paul Graham, CSIRO
A new report from CSIRO outlines four pathways for Australia to hit our Paris climate targets, and get cheaper energy at the same time.
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Environment + Energy
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Christian Downie, Australian National University
Donald Trump has fulfilled his pledge to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement struck in 2015, leaving China and Europe with the job of preventing other nations from following suit.
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Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University; Anthony Janetos, Boston University; Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan; Matthew Russell, Drake University
A panel of academics and scientists explain the damages to the Earth, the economy and US moral standing in the world by Trump's decision to abandon the Paris climate accord.
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Robert Kopp, Rutgers University
A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump's plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
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Bill Hare, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement could cause other countries to reaffirm their strong commitment to fighting climate change.
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Politics + Society
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Wanyun Shao, Auburn University
As President Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord, China is cutting pollution and dominating clean energy manufacturing. Now it can claim global leadership for those actions.
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From the archives
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Jonathan Pickering, University of Canberra
Some experts say it's better for the US to leave the Paris Agreement than white-ant it from within. But that ignores the damage that a US withdrawal would do to the fabric of global multilateralism.
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Luke Kemp, Australian National University
If the US stays in the Paris deal but misses its targets, the deal could look like a sham. But if Trump carries out his threat to withdraw, the US veto would be gone, and other nations might step up.
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James Whitmore, The Conversation; Michael Hopkin, The Conversation; Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Wes Mountain, The Conversation
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change finally came to an agreement. Here are the key points.
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Simon Lewis, UCL
COP21 ended with an agreement that is at once both historic, important – and inadequate
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Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Cathy Trudinger, CSIRO; David Etheridge, CSIRO; Malte Meinshausen, University of Melbourne; Paul Fraser, CSIRO; Paul Krummel, CSIRO
While the gases most responsible for global warming - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide - continue to climb, other industrial greenhouse gases are being brought gradually under control.
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Henrik Selin, Boston University; Adil Najam, Boston University
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world's options on how to react.
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Terry Hughes, James Cook University; Joshua Cinner, James Cook University
Tropical coral reefs can be saved from climate change and other pressures, but the window of opportunity is closing. And reefs are guaranteed to be markedly different in the future.
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Andrew King, University of Melbourne; Ben Henley, University of Melbourne
Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?
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Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo; Rob Jackson, Stanford University
For three years, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have grown little or not at all, opening a window of opportunity to halt climate change.
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Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Swinburne University of Technology; Nava Subramaniam, RMIT University
A survey of executives in high-emitting industries such as mining and electricity generation suggests they are not engaging with the government's flagship policy to cut greenhouse emissions.
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