Build resilience to climate change through natural solutions like plantings, greening cities, restoring corridors and utilising traditional land management knowledge.
Why it is important?
Climate change adaptation strategies can build resilience and minimise impacts of severe weather events. Many local governments in coastal areas in the Wet Tropics have completed Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategies. Actions from these strategies now need to be implemented in a timely, scientifically based and cooperative manner.
Examples of Local Action
Increase plantings of native trees and bushes in urban areas to provide cooling.
Local Landscape:
Cairns
Regional Theme:
Climate Futures
National Priorities:
Climate Change Adaptation
Catchment:
Barron