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Brendan Mackey, Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University

As disasters and heat intensify, can the world meet the urgency of the moment at the COP28 climate talks?

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Eight years ago, the world agreed to an ambitious target in the Paris Agreement: hold warming to 1.5°C to limit further dangerous levels of climate change.

Since then, greenhouse gas emissions have kept increasing – and climate disasters have become front page news, from mega-bushfires to unprecedented floods.

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