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202020 Vision: collaboration to make our urban areas 20% greener by 2020

Alinta Energy: Reeves Plains Power Station Proposal

Aurora Solar

Australia State of the Environment Report 2016: Climate – Trends in emissions

Australian Academy of Science: How has climate changed?

Australian Academy of Science: The science of climate change

Australian Academy of Science: The science of climate change – Questions and answers

Australian Capital Territory Government: Environment, Planning and Sustainable Directorate – Cleaner energy

Australian Capital Territory Government: Renewable Energy

Australian Energy Market Operator: Generation information page

Australian Energy Market Operator: Integrated System Plan Consultation

Australian Energy Market Operator: National Electricity Market (NEM) planning and forecasting

Australian Energy Market Operator: South Australia

Australian Energy Market Operator: South Australian Historical Market Information Report 2017

Australian Energy Market Operator: South Australian Renewable Energy Report 2017

Australian Financial Review: Sanjeev Gupta's $700 million solar–battery–hydro bet to power Whyalla green steel

Australian Institute of Marine Science: Species at risk – Identifying important habitats and threats to iconic marine species

Betts RA et al (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society): When could global warming reach 4°C?

Bureau of Meteorology: Indian Ocean influences on Australian climate – Understanding the IOD

Bureau of Meteorology: Special Climate Statement 48 – One of southeast Australia’s most significant heatwaves, August 2014

Bureau of Meteorology: Special Climate Statement 53 – Widespread record December temperatures in southeast Australia, January 2016

Bureau of Meteorology: Special Climate Statement 59 – Humidity, heavy rain and heat in central and southern Australia, January 2017

Bureau of Meteorology: Special Climate Statement 61 – Exceptional heat in southeast Australia in early 2017, April 2017

Bureau of Meteorology: Subtropical ridge leaves us high and dry this June

Bureau of Meteorology: What is El Niño and what might it mean for Australia

Cai W et al (Nature): Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy: Seven reasons to use carbon pricing in climate policy

Clean Energy Regulator: Large-scale Renewable Energy Target market data

Climate Change in Australia: Projections for Australia's NRM regions

Climate Change in Australia: Projections for Australia's NRM regions technical report

Climate Council: Be prepared – Climate change and the SA bushfire threat

Climate Council: Cranking up the intensity – Climate change and extreme weather events

Climate Council: Critical Decade 2013 – Climate change science, risks and responses

Climate Council: Critical Decade 2017 – Accelerating climate action

Climate Council: Reports

Climate Institute of Australia: Bushfire weather in Southeast Australia – Recent trends and projected climate change impacts

CSIRO: Cape Grim greenhouse gas data

CSIRO: Climate and water availability in south-eastern Australia – A synthesis of findings from Phase 2 of the South-Eastern Australian Climate initiative (SEACI)

CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology: State of the Climate 2016

Department for Energy and Mining: The facts – about offshore oil and gas in South Australia

Department for Environment and Water: Adapting to climate change

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency: Climate change risks to coastal buildings and infrastructure

Department of the Environment and Energy: A better energy future for Australia

Department of the Environment and Energy: Australia's 2030 climate change target

Department of the Environment and Energy: Climate change impacts in Australia

Department of the Environment and Energy: Emissions Reduction Fund

Department of the Environment and Energy: Independent Review into the future security of the National Electricity Market

Department of the Environment and Energy: State and Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventories 2016

Department of the Environment and Energy: The Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme

Energy Storage News: Without South Australia government supply deal, Zen set to become ‘major’ renewables–plus–storage player

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation: Risk assessment of impacts of climate change for key marine species in South Eastern Australia – Part 1 Fisheries and aquaculture risk assessment

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Freebairn J (Economic Society of Australia): A comparison of policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Garnaut Review: Projecting Australian climate change

Gasser T et al (Nature): Negative emissions physically needed to keep global warming below 2°C

Government of South Australia: Trend and Condition Report Cards 2018

Government of South Australia: South Australia's virtual power plant

Goyder Institute for Water Research: Climate change

Goyder Institute for Water Research: Development of an agreed set of climate projections for South Australia – Final report

Heffernan O (Nature): The mystery of the expanding tropics

Hope P et al (Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal): Seasonal and regional signature of the projected southern Australian rainfall reduction

Hornsdale Power Reserve

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): 5th Assessment Report – Chapter 8 – Anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Climate Change 2014 – Mitigation of climate change

International Maritime Organization: Greenhouse gas emissions

Joughlin I & RB Alley (Nature): Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world

Marine Traffic: Online real-time ship movement map

National Centers for Environmental Information: Global Climate Report 2017

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility: National Adaptation Research Plans

New Zealand Productivity Commission: Getting to zero – Challenging but achievable

Overland JE and Wang M (Geophysical Research Letters): When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free?

Renewal SA: Port Adelaide seawater stormwater flooding study

Reputex Energy: The Energy Trilemma – A cost curve for abatement and energy storage in Australia

Ross Garnaut: South Australian Government Climate Change and Energy Summit

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Statista: Energy related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide

The Australian Climate Change Science Programme: Australia's changing climate

The Australia Institute: National Energy Emissions Audit

The Conversation: Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years – Time is running out for the frozen continent

UK Meteorological Office: Our changing world – global indicators

United National Environment Program (UNEP): The Emissions Gap Report 2017

World Health Organization (WHO): Climate change and health

World Meteorology Organization: Greenhouse Gas Bulletin 2017

World Resources Institute: Introducing Climate Watch

World Resources Institute: Taking greenhouse gases from the sky – 7 things to know about carbon removal

World Resources Institute: This interactive chart explains world's top 10 emitters, and how they've changed

World Resources Institute: Understanding the ‘emissions gap’ in 5 charts

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies: The global impacts of rapidly disappearing Arctic Sea ice