We must Mobilise for the Climate Emergency like we Do in Wartime. Where is the Climate Minister?
By Ian Dunlop, David Spratt, The Guardian blog
Littleproud arguably has the most crucial and important role in cabinet. How to convince his colleagues of the real climate disasters which now confront this country, and particularly the agricultural sector, unless we rapidly move away from our fossil fuel past.
“Climate Emergency”: Evolution of a Global Campaign
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
In a matter of months, the language of climate emergency has exploded into public space in a spectacular way, with national, regional and governments adopting the term.
Existential risk, Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation’s twin climate bodies and how those organisations function.
SHOCK, HORROR: Poll Finds Strong Majority Support for Declaring a Climate Emergency
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
In five countries — Australia, the USA, Canada, the UK and Switzerland — an impressive 382 local government authorities covering more than 33 million people have recognised or declared a climate emergency. And now polling conducted in Melbourne shows that a sizeable majority in that city support declaring a climate emergency.
Big Oil and Gas Nations Sideline the Science at Katowice, Even as Emissions Rise and Warming Accelerates
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Just as four big oil and gas producers block the UN climate policymaking conference in Katowice, Poland from welcoming a report on the science of the 1.5 degree Celsius (°C) target which it had commissioned three years earlier in Paris, new evidence has emerged of the striking contradiction between word and deed at COP24.
World Acknowledges Unprecedented Climate Challenge, so What Should a Labor Federal Government Do?
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Quite suddenly, in the wake of the recent IPCC report, it's become commonplace to talk about a global climate emergency. Al Gore told PBS on 12 October: “We have a global emergency. You use a phrase like that and some people immediately say, ‘okay calm down, it can’t be that bad.’ But it it is."
Take Unprecedented Action or Bear the Consequences
By David Spratt, Ian Dunlop, Climate Code Red
Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences.
Our Energy Challenge in 6 Eye-Popping Charts
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
And the big picture? Despite 25 years of global climate policy-making, decarbonisation rates are not even close to what is required.