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Today the Paris Agreement, a global climate deal signed by 196 countries, comes into force. This is a historic moment fought for by hundreds of thousands of people on every continent. The problem is that too many governments are still taking actions that contradict the words set down in the agreement.  The new math* on climate change shows that every new fossil fuel project -- every coal mine, every gas well, every oil pipeline -- violates the goals laid out in Paris. That's why we've begun a global call to halt new fossil fuel development ahead of the next UN climate meeting in Morocco. The meeting starts next week --  help send the message that real climate action requires halting new fossil fuel projects now and building a just transition that makes 100% renewable energy accessible to all. The Paris agreement promises to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, and aim for 1.5 degrees. If you add up the carbon pollution contained in existing oil ...

  I remember the buzz of excitement in the room when French negotiator Laurent Fabius took to the stage and announced the Paris Agreement was universally supported by 197 countries. A year later it will come into force with 85 countries – including the US, China and New Zealand – ratifying the agreement. So what about Australia? Well... we haven’t ratified the Agreement. While the world has been surging ahead,  we’re snoozing and losing . Come with us down memory lane using our new  Climate Action Time Warp Tool  – which compares Australia's progress to the rest of the world: As one of the sunniest and windiest countries in the world,  we can be at the forefront of the renewables revolution . But while local leaders in communities, cities and states all over Australia are stepping up to the challenge – on a national front  we’re lagging behind, while the rest of the world surges ahead. World leaders will meet in Morocco next week for ...

To view this email as a web page, go here . Subscribe View October Edition 01 Customers Tracking male mozzies to tackle disease 02 Research More extreme weather ahead 03 Discoveries The Nightmare Machine: artificial intelligence gets spooky 04 People Prolific part-time PhD praised 05 Participate Why your number twos should be threes and fours Tracking male mozzies to tackle disease A new project in Northern Queensland aims to mark, release and recapture male mozzies to better understand their movements and behaviour. The study will lay the groundwork for future plans to reduce numbers of the disease-carrying female mozzies with an insect sterilisation program. We're partnering with global life sciences organisation Verily (a Google affiliate) and James Cook University to kick off the project, which builds on our previous work in Innisfail, QLD. De...