| 09/12/2005
- A new report into Australia’s climate activities highlights
Australia’s contribution to international climate science
research, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator
Ian Campbell, said today.
The report, Climate Activities in Australia 2005, produced
by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) summarises Australia’s
role in the international climate change effort and demonstrates
the significance of Australian research in understanding
climate science.
“Understanding the science associated with climate change
is essential if countries are to develop the means to
mount an effective response to climate change,” Senator
Campbell said.
“I am distributing this report at the climate change meeting
in Montreal, Canada, today as an illustration of Australia’s
contribution to the global climate change effort.”
Senator Campbell said the report covered a range of science
activities including climate monitoring and data archival;
using climate data in decision making; climate change
research and understanding the impacts of and response
to climate change. He said BOM had extensive links with
international meteorological services, particularly through
the World Meteorological Organization. The report is the
seventh report in this biennial series which BOM started
in 1993.
Senator Campbell said BOM placed high priority on making
research data accessible to the Australian people so it
may be applied to a variety of economic, social and environmental
purposes.
“Australian scientists are held in high regard and this
report demonstrates the extent of national collaboration
that been undertaken to monitor and measure our climate
change conditions,” Senator Campbell said.
“I am particularly grateful to the Australian Academy
of Science and the Australian Greenhouse Office for assisting
the Bureau in the preparation of the report.” |
