after a lost decade on climate action, the 2020s offer one last chance
- Written by Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
ShutterstockIn May 2011, almost precisely a decade ago, the government-appointed Climate Commission released its inaugural report. Titled The Critical Decade, the report’s final section warned that to keep global temperature rises to 2℃ this century, “the decade between now and 2020 is critical”.
As the report noted, if...





