Latest releases

Australian Government Action on Climate Change

Climate change - what does it mean?

Global Carbon Monitoring System

Implementing the Kyoto Protocol in Australia

National Carbon Accounting System

Climate change publications

Fact sheets & brochures

Publications marked with a are available by calling 1300 130 606.

Climate change programs

• Australian Government action on climate change - 2008

Greenhouse Friendly™

• Greenhouse Friendly™ Consumers
• Certification of Greenhouse Friendly™ Products & Services
• Approval of Greenhouse Friendly™ Abatement Projects
• Fact Sheet 1: An Overview of the Greenhouse Friendly™ Initiative
• Fact Sheet 2: Certifying your Product or Service as Greenhouse Friendly™
• Fact Sheet 3: Becoming an Approved Greenhouse Friendly™ Abatement Provider

Impacts & adaptation

• National Climate Change Adaptation Programme

International activities

• Implementing the Kyoto Protocol in Australia - 2008

National Carbon Accounting System

• National Carbon Accounting Toolbox and Data Viewer - March 2005
• Satellite Monitoring of Land-Based Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases - July 2003 (GH425)
• Land Use Change Emissions Results 1988-2001 - August 2003 (GH342)
• Methods for Estimating Land Use Change Emissions - August 2002 (GH343)
• NCAS - A Progress Report - May 2001 (GH166)
• The NCAS Accounting Framework - May 2001 (GH167)

Science

• Climate Change - what does it mean?
• Hot topics in climate change science
  1. How reliable are climate models?
  2. The IPCC climate change scenarios
  3. How unusual is the late 20th century warming?
  4. Is there an inconsistency between satellite records of warming and surface measurements?
  5. Is recent climate change unusual in a geological context?
  6. Is global warming predominantly due to solar variability?
  7. Could global warming affect the thermohaline circulation?
  8. Trends in extreme weather events: Australia and globally, past and future
  9. What is causing the rainfall declines over southern Australia - ozone, climate variability or climate change?
  10. Have methane levels stabilised?
  11. Species extinctions will increase due to global warming
  12. Abrupt climate change - fact or fiction