This report monitors Earth's stability, resilience, and life-support functions, which is referred to as 'planetary health'. It reveals that six out of nine 'planetary boundaries' have breached the safe levels, with all six showing trends of increasing pressure, suggesting further boundary transgression in the near future.

Hosting the United Nations climate summit (COP) is a major opportunity to safeguard Australia's security, while ensuring an economic future as a clean energy powerhouse. This report explains how hosting the event presents the opportunity to showcase Australia's advantages in abundant solar, wind, storage and innovation, to service the big energy needs of nearby countries...

This policy brief examines the newly established Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which seeks to address the disproportionate burden of climate loss and damage that is borne by developing countries. The brief suggests that, to avoid the pitfalls of previous climate funds, the...

This current package of bills represents the ‘second stage’ of the Australian Government's Nature Positive law reforms. It proposes to establish the governance arrangements for implementing the broader Nature Positive reforms by: creating a new statutory agency; establishing a statutory Senior Executive Service position of Head of Environment Information Australia; and amending nine environmental laws...

The National Health and Climate Strategy sets out a whole-of-government plan for achieving healthy, climate-resilient communities and a sustainable, resilient, high-quality, net zero health system. This initial implementation plan presents the milestones for the actions prioritised for delivery in 2024 and foreshadows the activities to deliver the remaining actions in 2025 and beyond.