Battening down the hatches - Productivity Commission recommends reforms to adapt to climate change

Key Points:

The Productivity Commission has set the agenda for climate change policy areas where attention should be directed, and its recommendations are likely to be seriously considered.

The Federal Government recently released a report produced by the Productivity Commission in September 2012 which examined the obstacles in Australian law and policy to effective adaptation to the impacts of climate change. The Commission recommended a series of reforms to address those obstacles and clear a path formore effective adaptation. These issues are separate to the debate regarding the causes and mitigation of climate change itself and so are likely to be received seriously by stakeholders with views across the spectrum of that debate.