Australia’s second Biennial Report is a summary of Australia’s progress towards meeting its commitments under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Countries such as Australia are required to submit these reports to the UNFCCC every two years. This report contains Australian data in a number of detailed tables.

The Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides estimates of Australia’s national inventory up to the June quarter of 2015. The ‘Quarterly Update’ is a publication series that reports on the latest estimates of Australia’s national greenhouse gas inventory.

This report investigates the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) existing transmission grid from 2014 to 2025. This reports answers urgent questions concerning the capability of the existing transmission grid to cope with significant increases in wind power.

Overview Australia has begun to address climate change. The Commonwealth Government has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. But we do not have a comprehensive, credible domestic policy framework to achieve this target. We do not even have bipartisan support for the central planks of such...

The Paris agreement, which will come into effect in 2020, requires all countries, rather than just the wealthy ones, to tackle the issue of climate change.