CoastAdapt is a website resource developed by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) to assist councils and other stakeholders to build capacity and knowledge on climate change, coastal management and adaptation.
Go to: www.coastadapt.com.au
As a component of the Sydney Coastal Councils Group ‘Sydney’s Salty Communities Program’, SCCG engaged CSIRO to prepare the Climate Ready Tool to assist councils in designing and managing biodiversity projects in the face of climate change.
To accompany the Tool a Business Case was developed using Waverley Council and its East Coast Banksia Scrub as an example of how the tool can be applied to a real life biodiversity management situation.
A series of factsheets were developed under the Sydney’s Salty Communities Program including;
In 2010, AECOm was engaged by the Sydney Coastal Councils Group to prepare a Beach Sand Nourishment Scoping Study on ‘Maintaining Sydney’s Beach Amenity against Climate Change Sea Level rise.
In 2011 the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency published a supplement to the first pass national assessment ‘Climate Change Risks to coastal Buildings and Infrastructure’.
The NSW EDO has published a report entitled ‘Planning for Climate Change: How the NSW Planning System can Better Tackle Greenhouse Gas Emissions’.
A Report based on a global survey of 96 Cities and their adaptiveness to climate change. Published in April 2018 by James J. Patterson, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Open University of the Netherlands.
