Useful links
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC was established to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding climate change and its potential impacts, as well as options for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change.
Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
The Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency leads the development and coordination of Australia’s climate change policies across three areas:
- international climate change strategy (including carriage of international negotiations such as the Kyoto Protocol)
- mitigation policy through domestic emissions reduction (including the design and implementation of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme)
- adaptation to the unavoidable impacts of climate change
CSIRO
CSIRO is Australia’s largest research organisation, and plays a key role in the development and understanding of climate change science, projections and preparation for the unavoidable impacts.
Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology provides information on climate variability over time, both globally and in Australia, as well as El Niño and Southern Oscillation events.
Climate Change in Australia
IPCC reports provide limited detail on Australian climate change, particularly when it comes to regional climate change projections. For this reason the Federal Government, through the Australian Climate Change Science Programme, engaged CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology to develop climate change projections for Australia.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) developed a series of global greenhouse gas emission scenarios to model and project future climate change. These scenarios incorporate future demographic, technological and economic development. Their Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) is on their website, along with other special reports.
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions
Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts, prepared by the Department of Climate Change, outline the profile of national greenhouse gas emissions - as a nation, by state, and by industry.
Adapting to change
