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NCCARF Policy Guidance Briefs
NCCARFs evidence-based Policy Guidance Briefs address key challenges to effectively adapting Australia to a variable and changing climate, providing high-level policy advice designed for use by policy makers at Commonwealth and State level.
NCCARFs evidence-based policy guidance briefs address key topics relevant to the challenge of effectively adapting Australia to a variable and changing climate. Policy guidance briefs have been developed in consultation with teams of adaptation practitioners and researchers through a series of workshops referred to as The Adaptation Conversation. Each workshop was held at a location that faces challenges associated with climate risk, variability and change.
NCCARFs evidence-based Policy Guidance Briefs address key challenges to effectively adapting Australia to a variable and changing climate. They provide high-level policy advice designed for use by policy makers at Commonwealth and State level. These briefs address key topics relevant to the challenge of effectively adapting Australia to a variable and changing climate.
1) Building resilient coastal communities and ecosystems;
2) Ensuring Australias urban water supplies under climate change;
3) Supporting decision-making for effective adaptation;
4) Adapting agriculture to climate change;
5) Challenges of adaptation for local governments;
7) Climate proofing Australias infrastructure;
8) Adapting ecosystems to climate change;
9) Managing heatwave impacts under climate change;
10) Emergency management and climate change adaptation;
11) Ensuring business and industry are ready for climate change;
12) Policy and regulatory frameworks for adaptation.
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