This report proposes a national assessment framework to assess
progress in adapting to the impacts of climate change. It will help shape
the response that is needed by business, government and communities.
Because adaptation has only recently emerged as a significant issue for
decision-makers in Australia and around the world, we would hope to see
progress without expecting that the challenge has been fully met.

• Chapter 1 outlines the importance and urgency of adapting to the

       impacts of climate change.

• Chapter 2 outlines the approach to developing the

       assessment framework.

• Chapter 3 develops the framework as it applies to Australia as a whole.
• Chapter 4 extends the framework to the coastal zone as an example of how progress in managing the impacts of unavoidable climate change might be assessed for a specific sector with its own legal frameworks, governance arrangements and stakeholders.
• Chapter 5 focuses on the adaptation challenges south-east Queensland

       faces and how the assessment framework can be extended to a region.

• Chapter 6 presents a set of possible indicators.