On the frontline: Climate change and rural communities

This report focuses on how climate change is affecting, and will continue to affect rural communities that are largely reliant on primary agricultural production. We recognise that climate change will also have important impacts on rural and regional communities via effects on sectors such as fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism - these impacts will be explored in future reports. While climate change poses many challenges and risks to rural landholders and their communities, transitioning to new ways of producing energy also provides many opportunities. Rural landholders manage the majority of Australia's land area, and so their collective actions have important implications for our water supplies, food production, and environment, and can play an important role in moving to a more sustainable, healthier, and prosperous Australia.