Strong national policies on climate change will help us be better prepared, bring global emissions down, and provide strong leadership in this time of crisis. In this article, five experts analyse and grade different aspects of this enormous portfolio.

The relationship between population and climate change is complex. This paper reviews the evidence, and includes unique insights by lead author Ian Lowe, who has been involved in climate policy and research in Australia from its very beginning in the 1980s.

Rural producers, natural resource managers and conservation managers face a constantly changing set of climatic and human influences. This symposium sought to explore pathways to practical and effective natural resource and conservation management in regional Queensland.