BRIEFINGS
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WHAT DOES AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CLIMATE AND SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT SAY?
Briefing Note
The Australian Government received its first climate and security risk assessment, carried out by the Office of National Intelligence (ONI), in late 2022. The assessment should inform policymakers and the public on the greatest threat to Australians’ future, but the government has refused to release a declassified version.
IS AUSTRALIA'S PROPOSED DOMESTIC RISK ASSESSMENT FIT FOR PURPOSE?
Briefing Note
To make a proper assessment of climate risks to Australia, it is necessary to first establish an understanding of the existential, systemic climate risks at a global scale.
CARBON BUDGETS
FOR 1.5 & 2°C
Briefing Note
Confused about carbon budgets for the Paris climate goals? Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? This briefing note explores how IPCC carbon budgets underestimate current and future warming, omit important climate system feedback mechanisms, and make dangerous assumptions about
risk-management.
“NET ZERO 2050”:
A DANGEROUS ILLUSION
COP26 Briefing Note
Latest analysis reveals “Net zero 2050” emissions (NZ2050) strategies will lock in many decades of unnecessary fossil fuels use well past 2050, with an unsustainable, business-as-usual economic pathway, dangerous “offset” trade-offs, and unacceptable risks of unstoppable climate warming.
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