Targets and Progress Review

Reducing Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Targets and Progress Review—Final Report

• Summary of the report (PDF 136 KB) | (DOCX 53KB)
• Recommendations (PDF 42 KB) | (DOCX 25KB)
• Final Report (PDF 7.7 MB)
• Media Release (PDF 292KB)
• Press Conference (video) and transcript (Word 232 KB)
• Webinar on the key findings of the Final Report
• Bernie Fraser address to the National Press Club, 13 March 2014 (PDF 389KB)

Contents

• Part A: Introduction and context (PDF 64 KB) | (DOCX 23KB)
  • Chapter 1—About this Review  (PDF 207 KB) | (DOCX 78KB)
  • Chapter 2—Science and impacts of climate change (PDF 630 KB) | (DOCX 257KB)
  • Chapter 3—A global emissions budget for 2 degrees or less (PDF 221 KB) | (DOCX 90KB)
  • Chapter 4—Global action and Australia’s role (PDF 483 KB) | (DOCX 663KB)
• Part B: Australia’s policies and progress to date (PDF 46 KB) | (DOCX 22KB)
  • Chapter 5—Australia’s policies on climate change  (PDF 68 KB) | (DOCX 32KB)
  • Chapter 6—Australia’s progress to date in reducing emissions  (PDF 277 KB) | (DOCX 130KB)
• Part C: Australia’s emissions reduction goals (PDF 100 KB) | (DOCX 24KB)
  • Chapter 7—Form and scope of goals (PDF 184 KB) | (DOCX 84KB)
  • Chapter 8—Australia’s emissions budget to 2050  (PDF 70 KB) | (DOCX 30KB)
  • Chapter 9—Australia’s 2020 and 2030 goals (PDF 228 KB) | (DOCX 104KB)
  • Chapter 10—Economic implications of Australia’s emissions reduction goals  (PDF 400 KB) | (DOCX 159KB)
• Part D: Reducing Australia’s emissions—Opportunities and challenges  (PDF 58 KB) | (DOCX 22KB)
  • Chapter 11—Australia’s emissions outlook  (PDF 1 MB) | (DOCX 416KB)
  • Chapter 12—Using international emissions reductions to help meet Australia’s goals  (PDF 253 KB) | (DOCX 91KB)
• Part E: Implementation issues under the carbon pricing mechanism (PDF 47 KB) | (DOCX 22KB)
  • Chapter 13—Caps for the carbon pricing mechanism (PDF 267 KB) | (DOCX 119KB)
• Appendices
  • Appendix A—Public consultation  (PDF 39 KB) | (DOCX 27KB)
  • Appendix B—Global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions  (PDF 298 KB) | (DOCX 118KB)
  • Appendix C—Sharing the global emissions budget (PDF 226 KB) | (DOCX 111KB)
  • Appendix D—Progress towards Australia’s emission reduction targets  (PDF 3 MB) | (DOCX 1.58MB)
  • Appendix E—Calculating caps: Assumptions, methods and tests  (PDF 177 KB) | (DOCX 63KB)
  • Appendix F—How economic modelling is used in this Review  (PDF 175 KB) | (DOCX 65KB)
     
• List of recommendations and conclusions (PDF 49 KB)