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Jan McDonald, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania

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

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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 seen as a form of defeatism, or worse, hubris.

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