Michele Bullock[*] Deputy Governor Sir Leslie Melville Lecture Canberra – 29 August 2023 Audio Melville is of course renowned for his contribution to the establishment of central banking in Australia. On that front it is a challenging time as we seek to return inflation to target in a reasonable timeframe and to preserve gains in the labour...Read More

Investments are needed around the globe to mitigate climate change, but it is in developing countries, where population growth and economic growth prospects are greatest, that climate mitigation investments need to grow the most. This column argues that closing the climate investment gap in these countries requires rechannelling of Special Drawing Rights to Multilateral Development...Read More

Children have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and governments must urgently act to ensure this, the United Nations says. In a new report, the UN Child Rights Committee says that climate change is affecting children’s rights to life, survival and development. It says young children are among the most vulnerable, yet...Read More

Mr. Huang Runqiu, CCICED Chinese Executive Vice Chairperson Minister of Ecology and Environment  Steven Guilbeault, International Executive Vice Chairperson of CCICED, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada,  Fellow Vice Chairpersons  Excellencies, colleagues and friends. It is an honour to serve as Vice Chairperson of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development...Read More

What do plastic pollution, storytelling, and mental health have in common? These are all pathways Columbia scholars and students are taking to tackle the climate crisis, from different areas of expertise, through the Earth Networks program. Climate change and related environmental challenges are a messy, “wicked” problem that touches on many aspects of the way we live...Read More

Responding to the authoritative guidance issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which has concluded that countries must urgently implement measures to address the damage and threat to children’s rights from climate change and environmental degradation, Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Climate Advisor, said: “Children are among those most vulnerable to the...Read More

Fossil-fuel subsidies surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the economic recovery from the pandemic. As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the...Read More

Globally, almost 1 billion people now live within 10km of a coastline and the same number live in areas less than 10 meters above sea level. These populations face some of the world’s biggest climate hazards, such as coastal floods from rising sea levels and the effects of hurricanes and tropical storms, which are becoming...Read More

We’ve been warned that our planet will change in unimaginable ways if we don’t act soon, and new research shows nearly 50 percent of 15–84-year-olds have already experienced significant change. Seeing what lies ahead, climate scientists have been at pains to show us how climate change will intensify such that today’s youth will bear the brunt of climate impacts in...Read More

In most parts of the Global South where coffee is produced, the impacts of climate change are being felt through changes in water supplies, resulting from increased rainfall variability. Successive droughts are impacting crop yields in a varied list of countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, India, and Indonesia. Professor Dr. Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi of the International Water...Read More