A Royal Commission has accused the Murray-Darling Basin Authority of unlawfully ignoring climate change and recommended more water buybacks for the environment.
Labor and the Greens have called for coastal retreat strategies, post-construction risk reviews of infrastructure, and liability exemptions for councils, in a new Senate climate change report.
Australia's capacity to overcome severe and catastrophic events is under strain, and climate change could accelerate instability, according to security agencies.
Climate change will cause regional disruption, but concerns about large-scale influxes of 'climate refugees' are ill-founded, a Senate inquiry has been told.