Climate change creates a significant risk to infrastructure, people, and the economy. The impacts from climate change, including damaging weather events, has already cost the state an estimated $3.6 billion per year.
In 2018, the Resilient Sydney Strategy was released to provide a pathway for resilience across the metropolitan area, including Penrith. It provides a framework for Penrith City Council to develop its own localised action plan, using local information.
After the worst drought on record, the Armidale Tree Group interviewed experts to learn the success formula for planting in a hotter, drier climate.
Wagga Wagga City Council captured high-resolution aerial imagery of vegetation and land surface temperatures for a series of projects to cool the city.
The CRJO and its partners created the Bushfire-Resilient Housing Toolkit to reframe bushfire risk to help prepare and build more resilient communities.
The Dawkins Park windmill provides renewable energy, improves water quality and is a symbol for the environmental and educational precinct.
Murray River Council and WMLIG are finding adaptation with projects that grow jobs and agricultural productivity, protect biodiversity and build social capital.
The HunterJO has developed a guide (Climate Change IP&R Package) to provide a pathway for councils to embed climate action into their planning and reporting.
Lake Macquarie City Council is trialling tidal gates to protect low-lying assets from tidal inundation, storm surges and extreme weather events.
The NSW Net Zero Emissions dashboard shows the amount of greenhouse gas emissions being produced by sector and local government areas across NSW.
