This report outlines current financial system risk arising from fossil fuel investment, focusing on bank lending to fossil fuel expansion and the potential to reform prudential regulation to ensure bank lending is aligned with a decarbonised future. The report also explores the loopholes Australia's banks are exploiting that undermine their strong sustainability commitments.

This briefing explains how the world has changed since last year’s COP27 summit in Egypt. It also explains what Australia must do to successfully co-host COP31 with Pacific nations.

The authors of this report argue that Australia must show a commitment to protecting our precious oceans and all the life that depends on it, starting with the urgent phase-out of coal, oil and gas this decade, restoring damaged ecosystems, and expanding marine sanctuaries.

The Climate Council commissioned Professor Jacqueline Peel, Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, and Professor of Environmental and Climate Law at the University of Melbourne Law School, to produce this report examining the gaps in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and other federal laws for protection of the climate.

This report collates the scientific evidence that explains how climate change harms nature, and the impacts already being experienced by species and landscapes that Australia's environment laws were designed to protect.