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The National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CCRSPI) Publications

A National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries

Phase 1 summary fact sheet

Australia’s primary industries have developed a national research strategy to address climate change and emissions management and trading. ] The strategy outlined in this fact sheet, outlines six research priorities: Understanding future climates Managing emissions Preparing industries Accessing information Facilitating change Linking decision makers. The fact sheet includes (more)...

An overview of climate change adaptation in Australian primary industries - impacts, options and priorities

A report prepared for the National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries by the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship

This report, prepared for the National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries, provides an overview of climate change impacts and adaptation options for Australian agriculture. It brings together the latest science from research groups around Australia and includes chapters on each of Australia’s major agricultural sectors, with a focus on steps that can be taken to adjust to the ongoing changes in our climate. It lists the adaptation issues common across (more)...

Australia's Primary Industries Responding to Climate Change

CCRSPI Phase 2 - Fact Sheet 1

Australia’s primary industries and the communities that depend on them need to be sustainable, competitive and profitable now, and into the future, to secure Australia’s food supplies and national prosperity. The predicted changes in the Australian climate are substantial, and the effects will vary widely across the country. Changes in temperature, rainfall, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, ocean currents and chemistry, winds, nutrient supply, and extreme (more)...

Climate Change Update: On-farm bioenergy in the Pork Industry

This is a fact sheet discussing opportunities for the Australian pork industry in relation to bioenergy production.

Knowledge gaps and opportunities

For research to inform and position Australian primary industries to respond to a future national greenhouse emissions trading scheme

This report prepared for the National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries by the Australian Farm Institute outlines the knowledge needed for Australian primary industries to respond to the imminent implementation of a national emissions trading scheme. The report also provides information about the implications of a national emissions trading scheme for Australian primary industries, including increases in the costs of energy and energy-dependant farm inputs. The (more)...

Life Cycle Assessments: A useful tool for Australian agriculture

Climate change poses specific challenges for Australia’s primary industries, with mounting public concern and media scrutiny about the way food is grown and distributed through markets. As well, there is increasing domestic and international legal and regulatory pressures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The Australian Pork Industry: Understanding climate change impacts

This fact sheet discusses climate change and the associated impacts and opportunities for the Australian pork industry. It also includes a glossary of climate change-specific terminology.