The Garnaut Climate Change Review

The Garnaut Climate Change Review examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy.

Ross Garnaut (Author)

9780521744447, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 October 2008

680 pages
24.7 x 17.6 x 3.5 cm, 1.78 kg

'We are all - governments, communities and companies - now in the climate change debate. For business to play a constructive role it must have access to the right information and clear-minded analysis. Professor Garnaut 's work provides a valuable resource for all contributors to the debate.' Don Argus, AO. Chairman of BHP Biliton

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.

Summary of conclusions
Introduction
1. Decision making framework
2. The science of climate change
3. Emissions in the platinum age
4. Projecting global climate change. 5. The Australian context to climate change
6. Impacts of climate change on Australia
7. Australia's emissions and the economy
8. Counting the costs
9. International response
10. Towards global agreement
11. Deepening international collaboration. 12. Targets and trajectories
13. Australian climate change policy overview
14. Emissions trading
15. Domestic adaptation policy
16. Research, development and innovation
17. Network infrastructure
18. Information
19. Income distribution
20. The energy transformation
21. The transport transformation
22. Agriculture and forestry transformation
23. Growth and structural change in the low-emissions economy
24. A fateful choice.

Subject Areas: Environmental monitoring [TQD], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], Environmentalist thought & ideology [RNA], Environmental economics [KCN]