Sea level rise
Report
New South Wales community perceptions of coastal erosion and inundation
The purpose of this study was to provide an evidence-based platform that will assist local governments and coastal management professionals in the future development of suitable and effective educational strategies and programs to help improve the ability of NSW coastal communities to adapt sustainably to the risk of coastal erosion and inundation.
Report
Responding to rising seas: OECD country approaches to tackling coastal risks
This report reviews how OECD countries can use their national adaptation planning processes to respond to this challenge. Specifically, the report examines how countries approach shared costs and responsibilities for coastal risk management and how this encourages or hinders risk-reduction behaviour by households, businesses and different levels of government.
Report
A pressure release valve? Migration and climate change in Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu
This report examines migration opportunities, projects future migration numbers from three Pacific microstates, and reports on fiscal and economic impacts and the likely impact of a hypothetical one-off environmental disaster on migration options.
Report
Climate change: the cascade effect
Climate change impacts and implications propagate as cascades across physical and human systems, compounding to form multiple impacts across sectors. Such effects arise because of the interdependencies between natural and socio-economic systems as they change and from feedback loops that occur between them. As such, cascading impacts have significant implications for community wellbeing, adaptive capacity...
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Is the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu growing, and not sinking, as Craig Kelly says?
Caught on tape mocking "lefties" for exaggerating the effects of climate change, Liberal MP and climate sceptic Craig Kelly has claimed that Tuvalu is not sinking beneath the seas but, according to the scientific literature, growing.