August 29, 2008, 7:50 pm

Not content with telling Australia how to best tackle global warming,
climate change adviser Ross Garnaut plans to tell the whole world.

Professor Garnaut is advising state and federal governments on how to
move forward with the issue. In a bulletin released on Friday, he
revealed he also has some advice for other countries.

Prof Garnaut said his latest report, due to come out next week, would
form a view on the degree of global ambition on reducing emissions
that would best suit Australia.

"Once a view is taken on this level of ambition ... we develop a
proposal on the distribution of the global effort amongst countries
that has a reasonable chance of success," he said in his bulletin.

Prof Garnaut also said the report would put forward views on
Australia's targets for emissions reduction, which are yet to be set.

It would assess the costs of climate change to Australia, including
the costs of any "catastrophic" events, which are not so likely but
would be extremely damaging.

The report will also assess the costs of taking action against climate
change.

Prof Garnaut has already released a series of reports on tackling
climate change but more will come as more economic modelling becomes
available.

His reports are still at the draft stage.