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Buildings shape energy demand, industrial emissions and the resilience of our cities. Rethinking the built environment may be one of Australia’s most powerful climate opportunities, the AdaptNSW Forum 2025 audience heard.

What if climate action was embedded in pop culture? At AdaptNSW Forum 2025, communicators examined how brand, humour and storytelling could make climate action more visible.

What does it mean to take risk to reduce risk? At AdaptNSW Forum 2025, we explored how cultural knowledge, policy innovation and trust can strengthen climate adaptation.

Adapting locally starts globally. Satellites, weather stations and ocean sensors feed the models governments rely on to plan for floods, heat and climate risk.

At the AdaptNSW Forum 2025, Indigenous leaders and cultural scientists explored how climate adaptation can draw on multiple ways of knowing, thinking, feeling and doing – inviting a deeper question about our responsibilities to Country and future generations.

Young people have grown up with climate change as a constant presence in their lives. AdaptNSW Forum 2025 challenged the assumption that experience comes only with age.

The case study outlines research led by the University of Tasmania with NSW Government agencies assessing air quality improvements in the Port Macquarie public library during smoke from the 2019–2020 fires. It compared central air conditioning with portable HEPA cleaners to evaluate the library’s potential to operate as a community clean‑air shelter.

On the New South Wales South Coast, a project bringing Aboriginal cultural custodians into the bushfire emergency control room is reshaping how decisions are made under pressure.

The AdaptNSW Forum 2025 was held at the Roundhouse at UNSW, Sydney on 25 - 26 November 2025.