The Paris Agreement contains a long-term temperature goal (LTTG) of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit this to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. The 1.5°C limit in the Paris Agreement goes significantly further than the previous 2°C goal adopted under the UNFCCC.

This directions paper has been prepared by the Victorian government, following extensive consultation with key stakeholders and the community. It will enable all Victorians to have their say on how we adapt to climate change. It outlines: the goals we are working towards to achieve a climate-ready Victoria. the principles that will guide decisions in...

The more we find out about the effects of climate change, the greater the insights we gather into how we can to become a resilient, innovative, and safe Australia, that is prospering in a zero carbon global economy. Achieving this will not be easy. But it is necessary. Addressing climate change will require transformation, particularly...

In the first Climate Cheats report in April, the Morgan Foundation revealed the full extent of how New Zealand used fraudulent carbon credits to meet its international obligations to reduce carbon emissions. As a country we have done nothing to reduce our emissions thus far, and have instead relied heavily on cheap, fraudulent credits from...

Just months after chief executive, Larry Marshall, shocked the global scientific community by changing the CSIRO's focus from climate change research to climate change mitigation, Federal Science Minister, Greg Hunt, has ordered the national science body to re-instate climate science as a core priority. He says the move represents the direction and priorities of the...