Climate

Addressing the skill shortages and the push for a just energy transition may just require us to rethink the work week.

Instead of spending $370 billion on submarines, an investment that would carry a better return for Australia would be an explicit budget of at least the same amount on building permanent peace.

This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people from dangerous climate impacts we can no longer avoid.

As long as our parliament is dominated by a whopping male, party-based career politicians, the real issues that affect women and children will continue to be ignored.

Climate activist Deanna “Violet” Coco’s 15-month jail term imposed last December has been quashed by a District Court Judge.

We all know that the climate crisis is also a health and social crisis. But what the research behind TheClimateLoad report confirms is that the climate crisis is also gendered. Climate action is a feminist issue. 

Women in Australia are contending with The Climate Load, in addition to the many other pressures they’re facing including on paid and unpaid work, sexual harassment and discrimination.

Bardee, founded by Phoebe Gardner and Alex Arnold in 2019, breeds Black Soldier Fly larvae to break down industrial quantities of food waste.

If we want to see urgent and equitable climate action, we must create more opportunities for young women to be part of these conversations

While the catalysts for their careers in climate action vary, these women are making big impacts on Australia’s future. 

The specific needs of women across the Asian-Pacific must be included in Australia’s responses to climate change and in disaster planning.

My latest novel sheds light on the importance of community action and the need to look out for future generations, writes Alison Booth.