Melanie Pill is a climate change research fellow at the Indo-Pacific Development Centre of the Lowy Institute, an international policy think tank based in Sydney. Georgia Hammersley, who also focuses on climate policy, is a research associate at the center.
The agreement reached this week at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai by nearly 200 countries calls on all nations for the first time to shift away from fossil fuels. While this marks a significant milestone, the accord falls short of what is needed in several ways and leaves too much room for interpretation.
