Climate Adaptation Flagship

The Environment Group aims to support the development of production sectors while at the same time minimising current and potential adverse environmental impacts.

National Research Flagships offer full and top-up Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships to high quality students who wish to work on a Flagship research project.

CSIRO today released a national overview of climate change impacts and adaptation options for Australian agriculture.

Improved management of the world’s tropical forests has major implications for humanity’s ability to reduce its contribution to climate change, according to a paper published today in the international journal, Science.

CSIRO's planning, design, infrastructure, management and governance solutions are helping revitalise Australia’s cities and coasts in response to a changing climate.

CSIRO is identifying the likely impacts of climate change on plant growth and production and its effects on farming. 

Australia’s farmers are our climate change 'warriors', and many of them are already meeting the challenges of climate change, with major modifications to the way they produce our food. In this podcast, Dr Mark Howden from CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, explains how farmers are dealing with challenges such as lower rainfall and irrigation allocations. (4.51)

Scientists from the CSIRO and the University of Queensland have called for a bigger research effort into the impact of climate change on marine species, outraged that research into the oceans has received far less Government funding than the examination of climate change on terrestrial species. (5.30)

Dr Andrew Ash leads CSIRO's research on adapting to life in a changing climate. As the Director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship, he oversees a large and diverse portfolio of research activities across Australia.

Peta Ashworth's work coordinates a range of social research projects for a number of CSIRO flagships as she and her team continually trial new and old ways to integrate social sciences into the scientific research programs of CSIRO.

The Climate Adaptation Flagship is seeking collaborations with universities and other potential partners to develop research programs leading to adaptation strategies to minimise and manage the impacts of climate change on human health in urban and coastal environments.

The Climate Adaptation Flagship is seeking collaborations with universities and other potential partners to undertake a regional vulnerability and adaptation study in South-East Queensland.