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The Great Barrier Reef
Protecting the Most Climate Vulnerable
The Great Barrier Reef faces rapid decline; urgent, targeted actions are needed to restore ecosystems, safeguard species, and ensure survival.
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Climate disruption demands urgent reorientation of Australian foreign and security policy priorities.
With the planet already effectively at 1.5°C of warming, and no sign of emissions peaking, the world is now on a dangerous trajectory toward 3°C.
Australia’s climate-security response is dangerously inadequate, ignoring urgent scientific warnings and concealing key risk assessments.
Climate-driven food insecurity threatens global stability; Australia must act urgently to assess and address escalating security risks.
Proposal to establish an urgent, independent Australian climate and security risk assessment framework.
Earth’s systems are showing significant signs of tipping into irreversible change.
With the planet already effectively at 1.5°C of warming—and no sign of emissions peaking—the world is now on a dangerous trajectory toward 3°C.
Financial systems risk collapse as climate models ignore cascading impacts of 3°C warming and systemic instability.
Warming beyond 1.5°C is imminent; only emergency-scale action can prevent catastrophic, irreversible, self-reinforcing climate impacts this century.
Climate economics has consistently downplayed future climate damage and risk.
A focused assessment of whether climate risks now justify an emergency response.
Mainstream climate assessments downplay extreme risks—this report calls for urgent, large-scale, emergency-level climate action.
Climate change has become a major catalyst for global conflict, social unrest, and humanitarian breakdown.
How Antarctica could contribute several metres of sea-level rise—far sooner than previously thought.
A full-scale, WWII-level mobilisation is now essential to prevent climate collapse and restore safe climate conditions.
Even at 1.2°C of warming, Earth’s systems are showing signs of tipping into irreversible change.
The 2°C limit is dangerously inadequate; irreversible tipping points are already triggered, leaving no carbon budget to prevent catastrophic impacts.
This urgent call for immediate climate action reshaped global approaches and framed climate change as an emergency.
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This submission argues climate disruption, not military rivalry, represents Australia’s greatest security risk, demanding a major rethink of AUKUS-era spending priorities.
Climate disinformation threatens democracy, demanding urgent national response.
Government misses an obvious climate moment during extreme weather crisis.
Policymakers and scientific institutions like the IPCC place too much emphasis on middle-of-the-road probability estimates rather than plausible worst-case outcomes.