Garnaut Climate Change Review Final Report

The Garnaut Climate Change Review released its Final Report on 30 September 2008. It follows the release of the Draft and Supplementary Draft Reports in June and September 2008, and provides recommendations on the policy options for Australia to most effectively respond to climate change.

Hard copies of the Garnaut Climate Change Review Final Report are available for purchase from Cambridge University Press. To order a copy of the report, please visit http://www.cambridge.edu.au/garnaut.

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Preliminary pages	PDF
Title pages, Table of Contents, Preface and Acknowledgements	(PDF, 160kb)
Terms of reference	(PDF, 32kb)
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Chapters
Introduction and Synopsis of key points	(PDF, 130kb)
Chapter 1: A decision-making framework	(PDF, 483kb)
Chapter 2: Understanding climate science	(PDF, 1.28MB)
Chapter 3: Emissions in the Platinum Age	(PDF, 1.79MB)
Chapter 4: Projecting global climate change	(PDF, 3.67MB)
Chapter 5: Projecting Australian climate change	(PDF, 302kb)
Chapter 6: Climate change impacts on Australia	(PDF, 294kb)
Chapter 7: Australia's emissions in a global context	(PDF, 1.18)
Chapter 8: Assessing the international response	(PDF, 228kb)
Chapter 9: Towards global agreement	(PDF, 498kb)
Chapter 10: Deepening global collaboration	(PDF, 210kb)
Chapter 11: Costing climate change and its avoidance	(PDF, 531kb)
Chapter 12: Targets and trajectories	(PDF, 246kb)
Chapter 13: An Australian policy framework	(PDF, 114kb)
Chapter 14: Australia's emissions trading scheme	(PDF, 415kb)
Chapter 15: Adaptation and mitigation measures for Australia	(PDF, 193kb)
Chapter 16: Sharing the burden in Australia	(PDF, 260kb)
Chapter 17: Information barriers to known technologies	(PDF, 185kb)
Chapter 18: The innovation challenge	(PDF, 243kb)
Chapter 19: Network infrastructure	(PDF, 590kb)
Chapter 20: Transforming energy	(PDF, 1.31MB)
Chapter 21: Transforming transport	(PDF, 719kb)
Chapter 22: Transforming rural land use	(PDF, 639kb)
Chapter 23: Towards a low-emissions economy	(PDF, 656kb)
Chapter 24: Fateful decisions	(PDF, 56kb)
End matter
End matter	(PDF, 115kb)
Full Final Report
Full Final Report	(PDF, 16.2MB)
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Please note, hard copies of the Final Report can be obtained through Cambridge University Press. For more information, please visit http://www.cambridge.edu.au/garnaut