Climate Resilience and Net Zero Emissions Branch,

NSW Department of Planning, Industry and

Environment

Managing climate change risk: guidance and

support for councils

Net zero emissions and climate resilience workshops – North Coast

Climate Resilience and Net Zero Emissions Branch

Climate Preparedness

Climate Ready NSW - State Government

Regional assessment and engagement

XDI-Sydney & XDI-NSW

Adaptation Finance

Cultural and Ecosystem Adaptation

NPWS Adaptation Pilots

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Pilots

Adaptation Actions for MEMA, BCT and SOS

Key Threatening Process application

Information and Knowledge Delivery

End user needs analysis

Information resources and product delivery

AdaptNSW website

Local Government capacity/grants

Events

Net Zero Emissions Implementation

Support action towards NSW Government net zero 2050

target

Provide tools and guidance to local and state government

Sector partnerships

Place-based partnerships

Regional knowledge brokeringRegionally located staff: work with regional decision makers to implement responses, build and enhance regional networks,

support the exchange information across our programs

Local government is experiencing greater impacts

from climate change in 2018…

• Data & Info: Projections, impacts,

data to inform your Local Strategic

Planning system

• Plan and Assess: updated Guide to

Climate Change Risk Assessment,

Enabling Regional Adaptation

Assessments and LSPS advice

• Responding: Implementation Guides,

Funding and Case Studies

Support for councils

DATA

&

INFO

PLAN

&

ASSESSRESPOND

Provides information on:

• Climate projections for NSW

• Impacts of climate change in NSW

• Adapting to climate change

• Additional resources

• 252,000 web views in the last year

• We will be redeveloping the website based on the

needs of users like you

AdaptNSW website

DATA & INFO

• Local scale information to inform local decision-making

• Regional snapshots

• Free open access to the full data set

Climate projections for NSW

DATA & INFO

• Soil properties

• Heatwaves

• Soil erosion and Rainfall erosivity

• Hydrology

• East coast lows

• Urban heat

Impacts of climate change in NSW

DATA & INFO

• Estimated 91% of councils in NSW have completed

a CCRA

• Most have focused on climate change risks to

council assets, operations and services

• Majority completed over 5 years ago

• Councils are starting to revise their CCRAs and

increasingly looking to address risks that extend

beyond their operations to local communities – e.g.

Resilient Sydney (City of Sydney)

Climate Change Risk Assessment

Does your council have

a Climate Change Risk

Assessment (CCRA)?

2015

70% of respondents

indicated they had a CCRA

2018

44% of respondents

indicated they had a CCRA

DATA & INFO

• Additional detail offering more practical

guidance

• New content

• Legal case for reducing liability

• Integrating into IP&R framework and

embedding into Business As Usual

• Interdependency

• Updating a risk assessment

• Case studies

Updated Climate Change Risk Assessment guide

PLAN & ASSESS

PREPARE

STEP 1: Establish why the risk assessment is being

undertaken or reviewed

STEP 2: Assess resources needed

STEP 3: Form the project team

STEP 4: Confirm executive support and

communication strategy

Climate change risk assessment

PLAN & ASSESS

Establish the framework

• STEP 5 Determine the level of assessment

• STEP 6 Develop or adopt a climate change

scenario

• STEP 7 Identify existing data sets and gaps

• STEP 8 Identify the scope and key elements of

the assessment

• STEP 9 Establish the evaluation framework

and risk assessment tools

Climate Change Risk Assessment

PLAN & ASSESS

Conduct workshops

• STEP 10 Key workshop activities

Act on the results

• STEP 11 Develop risk treatments and

write up and communicate results

• STEP 12 Embed risk treatments

Climate Change Risk Assessment

PLAN & ASSESS

PLAN & ASSESS

• Increasingly climate change is being identified

as a priority in a community strategic plan

• Climate change risk assessments should

become part of the standard council risk

register

• Climate change action plans become another

key strategic planning document and are

embedded within the Delivery Program and

the Local Strategic Planning System.

• KPIs are identified and reported against for

your local community

Embed in IP&R

PLAN & ASSESS

Local government survey provides ongoing feedback

PLAN & ASSESS

• A knowledge base on how the region is vulnerable to

climate change by identifying:

• How climate change will impact the region,

• Aspects of the region that make it vulnerable by

constraining our capacity to adapt,

• Important systems, how we want them to change

and ways we can act to make that change happen

• An opportunity to incorporate relevant aspects of the ERA

reports into regional plans and strategies, and local

strategic planning documents

Regional vulnerability assessments

PLAN & ASSESS

Informing local strategic planning

Recommended LSPS actions:Consider the regional systems transition model as outlined in the North Coast Enabling Regional Adaptation (2019) report when

developing operational policy, undertaking strategic planning, delivering council programs and assessing future infrastructure

needs.

Assess and manage the impacts of climate change (such as heat, floods, storms and drought) on Council’s assets and services.

Enable communities and individuals to be better prepared and more resilient.

Protect, enhance and increase natural and green spaces by considering ecosystem change and species shift from climate

change, and applying ecosystem adaptation into strategic planning and land protection.

Assess LGA wide carbon emissions and develop and implement a plan to reduce emissions in consultation with the community.

Continue to consider updated climate change information and monitor and report to the community on progress against climate

resilience and net zero goals.

Consider and implement a range of urban design and land use planning strategies to minimise heat in local government areas

described in Minimising the Impacts of Extreme Heat: A guide for Local Government.

PLAN & ASSESS

North Coast Enabling Regional Adaptation

PLAN & ASSESS

Transition Systems• Settlements and land-use

planning

• Resilient communities

• Cultural heritage

• Biodiversity

• Emergency management

• Food and agriculture

• Infrastructure and water

• Energy

• Tourism

Enabling Regional Adaptation – North Coast

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Assets

Hazard Maps

Climate Science

Resilience/Risk

Engines

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Risk Cost and

Asset Failure

Projections

Heat Mapping of

Risk of portfolios

Vulnerability

Diagnostics

Adaptation

Planning, Cost

Benefit Analysis

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Exposure VulnerabilityRisk

CalculationAdaptation

options

XDI Sydney/NSW - Cross Dependency Initiative

PLAN & ASSESS

• Local Government resources

• Survey of Local Government needs

• Urban heat and green cover – data

and guides

• Guide on minimising the impact of

extreme heat

• Grants programs – BRCC and IRCC

• Case studies

Adapting to climate change

RESPOND

Increasing resilience to climate change grants

23

• Government recognises the importance

of adaptation and resilience

• IRCC - $3.5 million over 4 years, 3

funding rounds

• Previous program – Building Resilience

to Climate Change

• 2 streams of funding

• Local councils

• Community groups and NGOs

RESPOND

Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Grants – Round 1Proponent Project Name Funding

Bega Valley Shire Council Cooler places for a warmer climate $110,000

Blacktown City Council Evidence based interventions for urban cooling $35,000

Central Coast Council Climate Change Adaptive Landform Case Study Woy Woy $113,600

Ku-ring-gai Council Ambient computing technology, the 3D Simtable model $45,000

Lake Macquarie City

Council

Swansea Tidal Gate Trial $50,000

Namoi Unlimited Joint

Organisation of Councils

Climate Change and Gravel Roads across the Namoi

Region

$285,000

Northern Beaches

Council

Climate Resilience Design Guide $110,000

Tweed Shire Council Fostering behaviour change to reduce the risk of arbovirus

threats

$104,700

Western Sydney Regional

Organisation of Councils

Building adaptive capacity to heat in Western Sydney $108,000

Wingecarribee Shire

Council

Portable Water Treatment Feasibility Study to Increase

Water Supply Resilience

$50,000

LGNSW website:- https://www.lgnsw.org.au/policy/increasing-resilience-climate-change

Increasing Resilience to Climate Change Grants – Round 2Proponent Project Name Funding

Ballina Shire Council Ballina CBD Flood Gating Project $120,000

Balranald Shire Council Climate Change Adaptive Private Domestic Water Supplies on Rural

and Remote Properties

$82,500

Bland Shire Council Climate Resilient Unsealed Roads $120,000

Cumberland Council UV-smart and cool playgrounds $106,555

Goulburn Mulwaree Council Heat Smart Showgrounds $98,375

Hawkesbury City Council Hawkesbury Disaster and Emergency Dashboard $30,000

Illawarra Shoalhaven Joint

Organisation

Enabling Water Sensitive Communities $224,800

Nambucca Shire Learning about climate change through public spaces $95,000

Newcastle City Council Adaptive community place-making in an urban local centre $65,000

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional

Council

Keeping it Cool - Vegetation and Heat Adaptation Strategy $42,000

Wagga Wagga City Council Smarter Sportsground Systems $35,000

Waverley Future proofing residential development from climate change in NSW $135,000

Western Sydney Regional

Organisation of Councils

Integrating urban heat in NSW land-use planning $90,000

LGNSW website:- https://www.lgnsw.org.au/policy/increasing-resilience-climate-change

Building Resilience to Climate Change (BRCC) Grants

26

• Building a community

of adaptation practice

in NSW

• 96 councils involved

• 70 partnerships

• 21 projects with

$1,387,486 grant

funding

RESPOND

Thank you

Shoalhaven IllawarraAaron Coutts-Smith – Nowra/Wollongong Aaron.Coutts-Smith@environment.nsw.gov.au

Hunter Central CoastJohn de Bruyn – NewcastleJohn.deBruyn@environment.nsw.gov.au

Northern NSWMalcolm Robertson – Coffs HarbourMalcolm.Robertson@environment.nsw.gov.au

Riverina and South East NSWMelinda Hillery – Queanbeyan Melinda.Hillery@environment.nsw.gov.au

Riverina Murray (and Far West, Central West & Orana)Catherine Semmler – Griffith Catherine.Semmler@environment.nsw.gov.au

For further help

Denise Anderson, LGNSW on 02 9242 4056 or

denise.anderson@lgnsw.org.au

Or your regional DPIE Adaptation Officer