Photograph by Rhett Butler

Photograph by Rhett Butler

Climate Science

Academic members of CLARA have published on issues pertaining to:

  • Carbon budgets, ‘climate ambition’, and the race to real zero

  • Use of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [SSPs]

  • Use of offsets and the construction of carbon markets

  • Food security, climate change, and agroecological transitions.

Our major scientific publication is Missing Pathways from 2018.

Lead Author: Dr. Kate Dooley, the University of Melbourne.

CLARA has also commented on the release of IPCC Special Reports in this 6th Assessment Cycle.  This includes comments to joint IPBES/IPCC Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change (2021), and a response to the IPCC Special Report on Land (2019).