Australian intergenerational report projects climate impacts to 2066
Economic loss from a disorderly net-zero transition
Australia’s seventh intergenerational report projects major economic and social effects from climate change over the next 40 years. Experts criticised it for understating those effects, while others welcomed its discussion of renewable-energy benefits.
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The Intergenerational Report projects Australia’s economic and social conditions out to 2066.
“The government’s seventh intergenerational report, which projects out to 2066”
The Intergenerational Report finds the effects of global heating over the next 40 years are highly uncertain.
“finds the effects of global heating four decades from now are “highly uncertain””
The Intergenerational Report finds that sea-level rise will have its greatest effects on coastal and low-lying areas.
“sea level rise from global heating will have the greatest effects on coastal and low-lying areas”