Wesley Morgan, Author at Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/author/wesley-morgan/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?quality=70&w=32 Wesley Morgan, Author at Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/author/wesley-morgan/ 32 32 232040107 Climate action is crucial to Australia’s standing in the Pacific https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/pacific-islands-security-china-climate-change/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/pacific-islands-security-china-climate-change/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:25:37 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172124 Penny Wong with Pacific island leaders at the 2023 Pacific Islands Forum (Image: AAP/Ben McKay)Long a regional laggard on climate action, Australia must convince Pacific leaders it's serious about moving away from fossil fuels.

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]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/28/pacific-islands-security-china-climate-change/feed/ 12 ‘It’s not game over — it’s game on’: Why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/23/climate-crisis-2024-inflection-point-world/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/23/climate-crisis-2024-inflection-point-world/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:22:16 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1143133 A bushfire near Tara, Queensland, October 2023 (Image: AAP/Darren England)Without immediate action, we are at grave risk of crossing irreversible tipping points in the earth’s climate system. Yet there are reasons for hope.

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