Climate change
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Climatic changes
Climate policy
Report
Escalating Queensland bushfire threat: interim conclusions
The Climate Council will publish a report on bushfire risk in Queensland in early 2019. This builds on a significant body of published work by the Council, including a 2016 report entitled Be Prepared: Climate Change and the Queensland Bushfire Threat. With devastating and unprecedented bushfires currently burning in Queensland, the Council believes it is...
Report
Stay on target - update
The government has just released statistics on Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and they show that total emissions are still rising and we are still not on track to meet our Paris target.
Discussion paper
From dependency to armed neutrality: future options for Australian national security
This paper considers Australia's future security options, advocating a holistic methodology that examines traditional security challenges within the context of the natural world, including climate change.
Report
The role of sub-state and non-state actors in international climate processes: corporate sector
Given the challenging political contexts since 2015, the corporate sector will have a key role to play in persuading national governments how technologies and expertise have moved on since the pledges were made. Editor's note: This is one of four background papers feeding into a synthesis paper entitled The role of sub-state and non-state actors...
Report
The role of sub-state and non-state actors in international climate processes: civil society
Given today’s challenging geopolitical conditions and the evolving nature of the international climate regime since Paris, civil society must now once again recalibrate its strategies to ensure continued and increasing relevance. Editor's note: This is one of four background papers feeding into a synthesis paper entitled The role of sub-state and non-state actors in international...