Reports, Papers and Specialist Submissions

Reports

Final Report
The Final Report is due by 30 September 2008.

Draft Report
The Garnaut Climate Change Review released the Draft Report on Friday, 4 July 2008. Download a copy of the Draft Report via the Draft Report web page.

Interim Report
An Interim Report has been released to provide an overview of the early directions and findings of the Review, as a basis for community discussion.

Download the Garnaut Climate Change Review Interim Report_Executive Summary (44kb)

Download the whole Garnaut Climate Change Review Interim Report - February 2008 (634kb)

Read the Media Release_Interim Report 21 February 2008 (323kb)

Draft Report background papers

• The impacts of climate change: Click on this link to view papers commissioned by the Garnaut Review on the impacts of climate change on Australia.
• Global temperature trends - Breusch and Vahid (Crawford School of Economics, ANU) (PDF, 131kb). Background paper referenced in Chapter 5 of the Draft Report. This study by the Crawford School of Economics (Australian National Univerity) was commissioned by the Garnaut Review.
• Emissions in the Platinum Age: the implications of rapid development for climate change mitigation (410kb) Background working paper prepared for the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (not yet published) by Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo and Peter Sheehan. Presented by Stephen Howes at the Australian National University on 29 April 2008. (Updated 2 May 2008)

Draft Report fact sheets

• The impacts of climate change on Australia - Fact sheet (PDF, 432kb).
• Economic modelling fact sheet (PDF, 321kb).
• Emissions Trading Scheme Fact Sheet (PDF, 356kb).

Issues and discussion papers

Emissions Trading Scheme Discussion Paper
A discussion paper was released on 20 March 2008, putting forward for community discussion a set of principles and design features for the delivery of an efficient and effective ETS. Submissions on the discussion paper closed on 18 April 2008.

Download the ETS Discussion Paper - Executive Summary (50kb)

Download the entire Emissions Trading Scheme Discussion Paper (477kb)

Read the fact sheet (359kb).

Read the media release (78kb).

* Please refer to the menu on the left of this web page to view submissions made in relation to the ETS Discussion Paper

Issues Papers
Issues Papers released by the Review are:

• Issues Paper 1 - Climate Change: Land use - Agriculture and forestry (PDF, 137kb) (Submissions closed 18 January 2008.)
• Issues Paper 2 - Financial Services for Managing Risk: Climate Change and Carbon Trading (PDF, 100kb)(Submissions closed 21 February 2008.)
• Issue Paper 3 - Climate Change: What is the Science Telling Us? Is There a Need to Develop New Emissions Scenarios? (PDF, 273kb) (Submissions closed 11 April 2008.)
• Issues Paper 4 - Research and Development: Low Emissions Energy Technologies (PDF, 176kb) (Submissions closed 11 April 2008.)
• Issues Paper 5 - Transport, Planning and the Built Environment (PDF, 129kb) (Submissions closed 11 April 2008.)

* Please refer to the menu on the left of this web page to view submissions made in relation to the specific issues papers.

Specialist submissions

How to find specialist submissions
To access the submissions received on the Review's Emissions Trading Scheme Discussion Paper and other issues papers, click on the name of the discussion paper or issues paper that appears on your left hand side menu.

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