Right now, Australia’s environment is under grave threat from climate change - facing some of the greatest risks in human history. Accelerating climate change is also turbocharging other threats like habitat destruction and proliferation of invasive species. Collectively, this is pushing many natural places around the country to the brink of ecological collapse.

Through worsening floods and fires, heatwaves, ocean acidification and droughts, climate change is like an all-purpose bulldozer tearing through the ecosystems that humans and all other species depend on for their health, wellbeing and safety. An extreme event - like the Black Summer bushfires, extreme floods in Queensland and New South Wales, or lethal heatwaves across Western and Central Australia - is devastating. Together, the impacts are compounding. If climate change is left unchecked, we will lose many of the species and ecosystems that sustains us.

This report collates the scientific evidence that explains how climate change harms nature, and the impacts already being experienced by species and landscapes that our environment law was designed to protect.