Headlines across Australia over the past week have highlighted the grim picture of the effect of climate change on our country, with the first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) forecasting doomsday scenarios with soaring numbers of heat related deaths, rising sea levels, and more frequent and severe heatwaves, droughts and bushfires.

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The government's response to the NCRA report was to set emission levels aimed at averting warming above 1.5 degrees by 2035, and the cost of these changes is being debated across business and political forums and in the media, with much of the focu

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