This 2011 update of significant elements of the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review considers elements of the original review where changes or improvements in expert knowledge could have significant implications for the key findings and recommendations for future climate change policy.

Mechanisms for transitioning towards a low carbon economy include technological shifts, policy development and programs that require changes in behaviour. Arguably, local councils are well positioned to drive some or all of these.

The costs of Australia playing its proportionate part in an effective global effort are manageable, according to this report.

This e-Brief covers many of the developments that have occurred since the Kyoto meeting to the near finalisation of all outstanding issues at the COP7 meeting at Marrakesh in late 2001. It now appears that the required threshold number of countries willing to ratify the Protocol to allow it to come into effect has been...