The Climate Commission has released a report on New South Wales climate impacts and opportunities.
Climate commissioners Tim Flannery, Will Steffen and Lesley Hughes spoke to the media about their report.
- Listen to the media conference:
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- Download ‘The Critical Decade’ report (PDF)
This is the Climate Commission’s summary of its report, ‘The Critical Decade’.
New South Wales (NSW) is home to over a third of Australians, 31% of the national economy and is highly vulnerable to climate change. Scientists are concerned that climate change is increasing the risk of hot weather, heatwaves, and bushfires, and changing the patterns of drought and heavy rainfall. A changing climate is costly, putting pressure on human health, agriculture, infrastructure and the natural environment.
NSW is becoming hotter and drier. Record-breaking hot days have more than doubled across Australia since 1960 and heatwaves in the greater Sydney region, especially in the western suburbs, have increased in duration and intensity. [Read more...]
Ripper was first elected to Parliament in 1988. He served as a minister under Carmen Lawrence in the early 1990s and was a minister throughout the term of the Labor government elected in 2001 under the leadership of Geoff Gallop. He was Deputy Premier and Treasurer in the Carpenter government.
Gallagher was elected unopposed by the ALP caucus on May 13. She was endorsed by a vote of the ACT Legislative Assembly today, winning 11 votes to 6 for the Liberal leader Zed Seselja. Her deputy is Andrew Barr.
