Impacts of climate change

Want to understand how the projected changes in climate will affect things in the future? This section outlines how Australia as a whole, Australian agriculture and the Australian dairy industry might be impacted.

Key points:

If climate change progresses as predicted by international climate models:

- Global impacts will flow through to Australia

- Australia will generally be hotter and drier

- Agriculture, coastline integrity, water supplies, human health and natural ecosystems will be directly affected

- Terms of trade and geopolitical security are likely to be indirectly affected