In order to achieve current climate change goals, Australia needs to use a long-term carbon budget approach to properly assess the risks, responsibilities and realities of doing its fair share. Australia’s carbon laws and international negotiations are based on avoiding more than two degrees global warming above pre-industrial levels. To have good chance of achieving...

This report puts Australian climate policy in the context of ongoing international action to address climate change. Key findings: Megatrends towards greater international action on climate change continue but at an insufficient pace. For example, weighted average effective carbon prices on energy in OECD countries are currently PPP* $34 per tonne and global clean energy...

In the last century, Australia's average temperature rose by slightly less than one degree over the pre-industrial average. Without concerted action by all countries, including Australia, the world is on a path to exceeding 4°C by the 2060s. While some further warming is already locked in to the climate system, the worst is still avoidable...

This report argues that Australia will face significant human and economic costs because its infrastructure is poorly equipped to handle more frequent extreme weather events and other consequences of climate change.

China has long since been perceived as the laggard in the climate action space, and as scapegoat for other countries, like Australia, delaying action. But this report argues that this claim is increasingly difficult – if not impossible – to make in light of China’s recent policies. Key findings: China has, for self-interested reasons, moved...