Climate change adaptation
Alternative labels
Climate resilience
Adaptive capacity
Report
Untapped: collective intelligence for climate action
Making decisions for climate policy and action can be fraught and divisive, and compounded by the spread of mis- and disinformation. This research finds that in order for collective intelligence initiatives to have impact, three factors are critical - sustaining volunteer participation, ensuring citizen-generated data fills known evidence gaps, and getting policy-makers to act on...
Report
Adapting to climate change: how the UK can better manage a rapidly changing environment
The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt, but successive governments have failed to prepare the United Kingdom to adapt effectively. This report looks at how government could move adaptation up the agenda and improve UK climate resilience.
Assessment
National climate risk assessment: first pass assessment report
This report outlines the outcomes of the first pass risk assessment. It identifies 56 nationally significant climate risks facing Australia, and a subset of 11 priority risks for analysis in the second pass risk assessment. The accompanying appendix outlines the full descriptions for each of the climate risks.
Report
Climate whiplash: wild swings between weather extremes
In this interim report, the Climate Council presents some key observations from the summer so far. What have we learned? What has surprised the experts? What has it taught us about our changing climate, and how we need to respond?
Report
Governance of climate change commitments
The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's governance arrangements supporting the implementation of the Australian Government’s climate change commitments.