%T This is a crisis: facing up to the age of environmental breakdown %A Laurie Laybourn-Langton %A Lesley Rankin %A Darren Baxter %I Institute for Public Policy Research %D 2019 %K Climate change mitigation, %K Sustainability, %K Environment, %K Social change, %K Climate change adaptation, %K Social inequality, %K Environmental monitoring %U https://apo.org.au/node/219861 %X Human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic stability is possible. This paper argues that three shifts in understanding across political and policy communities are required: of the scale and pace of environmental breakdown, the implications for societies, and the subsequent need for transformative change. %9 Report