The Garnaut Climate Change Review

by Ross Garnaut

• ISBN13: 9780521744447
• ISBN10: 052174444X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Professor Ross Garnaut was commissioned by all of the Governments of Australia's Federation to examine the impacts of climate change on Australia and to recommend policy frameworks to improve the prospects of sustainable prosperity. The Garnaut Climate Change Review is one of the most important reports to be published in Australia for many years. It examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and the international context in which climate change is experienced and negotiated. It analyses the elements of an appropriate international policy response, and the challenges that face Australia in playing its proportionate part in that response. The Garnaut Climate Change Review is highly relevant to the global problem that is climate change. It considers what policies the international community should adopt in responding to climate change, and urges humanity to act now, and in concert, to develop the required policy response in time.

Table of Contents

Summary of conclusions

Introduction

Decision making framework

The science of climate change

Emissions in the platinum age

Projecting global climate change

The Australian context to climate change

Impacts of climate change on Australia

Australia's emissions and the economy

Counting the costs

International response

Towards global agreement

Deepening international collaboration

Targets and trajectories

Australian climate change policy overview

Emissions trading

Domestic adaptation policy

Research, development and innovation

Network infrastructure

Information

Income distribution

The energy transformation

The transport transformation

Agriculture and forestry transformation

Growth and structural change in the low-emissions economy

A fateful choice

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