10 Jan 2020
Jakarta is flooding and its governor is sinking
Despite promising new policies, the city’s new leader faces the same problems as the last, and few options.
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9 Jan 2020
Climate leadership: An idea whose time has come?
The Canberra Bubble seems to stifle good ideas, so the challenge for citizens make our leaders take security seriously. -
3 Jan 2020
Best of The Interpreter 2019: The rising climate chorus
For a world joined by an ideal of united nations, the response to global warming has shown anything but. -
17 Dec 2019
Favourites of 2019: Ross Garnaut on climate
Escaping the gloomy view, a positive look at the opportunities for renewable power might just match the public mood. -
11 Dec 2019
Should you lie to your children about reality?
Protecting young people from terrible truths may just be good for them – until it isn’t anymore. -
21 Nov 2019
Chart of the week: The climate cost
Polls suggest a majority of Australians want action on global warming, even at a cost – but politics tells us otherwise. -
19 Nov 2019
Book review: The chance to actually change the climate
Getting something done about global warming might seem a bit too good to be true, but good policy ideas demand action. -
30 Oct 2019
See you in court? A rising tide of international climate litigation
Vanuatu is pushing for international courts to tackle the climate crisis in a move that could put the heat on Australia. -
17 Oct 2019
China’s carbon emissions trading scheme: Smoke and mirrors
China has adopted a scheme to reduce carbon intensity, but that is not the most effective way to reduce CO2 emissions. -
20 Sep 2019
National identity cannot be separated from the climate of the times
Stubborn transnational problems – especially global warming – pose a particular challenge for Western democracies. -
4 Sep 2019
In Java, the water is running out
Drought, pollution, and poor resource management threaten Indonesia's most populous island with total water scarcity. -
28 Aug 2019
The Kainaki II Declaration is a signal of Pacific strength
This amounts to the strongest statement the Pacific Islands Forum has ever issued collectively on climate change. -
16 Aug 2019
Keep calm and fly on … unless someone stops me
As flygskam fever erupts, why not ration frequent flyers to save a global cost of travel on the flimsiest of pretexts? -
7 Aug 2019
Climate change is a national security issue
The Morrison government’s Pacific “Step Up” will stumble before it starts unless global warming is taken seriously. -
16 Jul 2019
India’s latest crisis: 600 million people struggle with drought
Cities have been forced to truck in drinking water, farms are failing, and the situation grows more desperate. -
26 Jun 2019
Are Australians more worried about climate change or climate policy?
Climate change is again on the public mind but this didn’t translate to a strong message at the ballot box for action. -
30 Apr 2019
Adapting to climate change: the priority for Australia
Understanding the “new normal” to protect people’s livelihoods should be at the core of the next government’s agenda. -
9 Apr 2019
Can technology save ASEAN’s food supplies from climate change?
A pressing need to feed a big population with little agricultural land and shirking fish stocks could spur innovation. -
23 Jan 2019
Just how green is the Belt and Road?
China readily claims the mantle of environmental leadership, but its flagship infrastructure project has a cost. -
19 Dec 2018
Russian gas will not stop China’s air pollution
Current measures are clearly insufficient to drastically improve air quality. -
22 Oct 2018
Vietnam’s quandary: red or green?
Vietnam is caught between Chinese rocks and a climate change hard place – and looks to partners like Australia for help. -
10 Oct 2018
What to do about a warming planet
The IPCC report warns fundamental change on such a large scale will be difficult, but the alternative shapes as worse. -
20 Sep 2018
Climate change, at the frontlines
Pacific islands have declared climate change the “single greatest threat” to security, a significant shift in language. -
13 Sep 2018
Explaining green and blue growth
Attaching an economic cost to natural resources might be one way to ensure they can be governed and managed sustainably. -
22 Aug 2018
Rights for people forced out by climate change
The Global Migration Compact puts environmental displacement on the agenda, even if it lacks legal force. -
15 Aug 2018
Working with China on Pacific climate change
Tackling a difficult problem might pave a way for wider cooperation between China, Australia, and New Zealand. -
13 Jul 2018
Japan floods a warning for a changed climate
Failure to radically cut global carbon emissions will mean disasters such as that in Japan will become the new normal. -
18 Apr 2018
Climate change and shifting alliances
The Maldives’ experience suggests the need to adapt to global warming could in the future be manipulated for political leverage. -
13 Feb 2018
Climate change and security and why it’s so hard
The security implications of climate change must become part of Australia’s long-term Asia-Pacific policy. -
14 Dec 2017
The Kyoto Protocol 20 years later: Heroes and villains
Negotiators look back at a landmark agreement and the climate of exhaustion that ensued. -
12 Dec 2017
Searching for sustainable energy in the Mekong
Southeast Asian governments are starting to wake up to the vast potential of solar energy. -
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