Current Projects
ADAPT Water Project - Climate Change Adaptation Tool for the Water Industry
The AdaptWater tool is being developed as a climate change adaptation tool for the Australian urban water industry. The project has been developed by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) and Sydney Water, in association with Climate Risk Pty Ltd, receiving co-funding from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) as part of the DCCEE Coastal Adaptation Decision Pathways (CAP) program. In addition to Sydney Water, WSAA project partners include Melbourne Water, SA Water, Queensland Urban Utilities, Water Corporation and City West Water.
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Climate Change and the Community Welfare Sector – Risks and Adaptation: A Project with the Australian Council of Social Service
People experiencing poverty and disadvantage will be affected first and worst by climate change, including the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters. The community welfare sector provides essential services to those struggling to meet basic needs. As climate change impacts worsen, more people will turn to organisations that provide assistance and yet there is very little understanding about how the sector itself is placed to cope with climate change risks. This research project funded by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) aims to fill the gaps in the understanding of these complex issues through a national survey, a round of national workshops and failure analysis.
Pilot Council Insurance Partnership on Climate Adaptation Methods
The PCIP project brings together Insurers and Local Government to see how, by sharing information and strategies, they can minimise the cost of both insurance and adaptation for their clients and rate payers. The project has involved the development of building resilience analysis tools, cost-benefit systems for comparing adaptation actions like sea walls, planning rules and planned retreat, and also on-line, real-time location profiling using GIS hazard maps.
Building Resilience Rating Tool
Climate Risk along with Edge Environment have created a Resilience Rating Tool for the Insurance Council of Australia. Climate Risk provides the computational engine that interfaces with databases developed by Edge Environment in order to assess the resilience of domestic buildings to various extreme weather conditions that are expected to increase with the changing climate. The tool is in its first online pilot form and currently only assesses inundation. The tool is restricted to registered users. If you are interested in using the tool, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a login name and password. Registered users can log in here
Climate Change and the Community Welfare Sector - Risks and Adaptation
Adapting the community sector for climate extremes
Launched at Parliament on the 11th of April 2013, Adapting the community sector for climate extremes is the first of its kind.
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"The rich will find their world to be more expensive, inconvenient, uncomfortable, disrupted, and colourless - in general, more unpleasant and unpredictable, perhaps greatly so. The poor will dies" (Kirk R. Smith, 2008).
