As global heating heads to 1.8C, is it time to consider the ‘Voldemort’ of climate policy?

By Jan McDonald, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania
Jonathan Symons, Director of Research and Innovation, School of International Studies, Macquarie University
Manon Simon, Researcher in Climate Intervention Law and Governance, University of Tasmania
Matt McDonald, Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
Rachel Neef, Research fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania

The world is set to miss the 1.5°C global warming target, and plans are underway for UN climate talks in the Pacific and Turkey.

Climate mitigation – reducing or preventing greenhouse emissions – was once treated as the only legitimate response to global warming. In comparison, climate adaptation – trying to adjust to global warming – was…

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