2021-08-10 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Climate Change Response Plan

                                                                                                            Noosa Climate Change Response Plan



Strategic Priorities            Specific actions                                                        Metrics                                              Timing
What are our priorities over    How will we achieve our strategic priorities or encourage positive      How will we measure effectiveness or success         (for
the 5 year life of this plan?   change?                                                                 of risk mitigation or emissions reduction efforts?   commencement)

Theme 7 - Resilient and adaptive communities and built environments
Target:
By 2030, sustainable building outcomes are delivered through regulation, education and showcasing best practice design.
By 2030, community awareness, planning and preparedness for natural hazards and climate change is increased.
By 2026, 60% of people in Noosa have a very good understanding of climate change
7.1 Create a resilient          • Develop climate responsive design guidelines to support the           • Whether action is completed                        2021/22
built environment for             planning scheme, place making, asset management and
householders, businesses,         design to improve understanding of how infrastructure and
vulnerable people,                urban design measures can be used to increase climate
property and infrastructure       resilience within Noosa’s public areas, streetscapes and
                                  buildings.
                                • Develop locality-based Heat Risk Assessment and mapping               • Whether action is completed                        2021/22
                                  for urban areas to improve understand and help development
                                  responses to urban heat impacts in Noosa.
                                • Continue to update Noosa Plan 2020 planning scheme to                 • Climate change and heat risks factored into        2021/22-ongoing
                                  manage the impacts of climate change on buildings and public            land use planning
                                  spaces including heat mitigation requirements, as well as for         • Number of buildings that achieve a 5 star or
                                  flooding, inundation and bushfire risks.                                above under the Green Building Council of
                                                                                                          Australia rating scheme.
                                • Advocate through LGAQ and the State for state policy and              • Whether action is completed                        2022/23
                                  guidelines that provide a minimum standard for designing
                                  buildings to reduce emissions, improve sustainability and
                                  reduce urban heat risks.
                                • Prepare a Socio-economic impact hazard assessment of flooding         • Whether action is completed                        2022/23
                                  and inundation including survey of building stock vulnerability
                                  (floor heights, building types and materials) to provide a business
                                  case for risk mitigation. This will also inform wind vulnerability
                                  assessment by Geoscience Australia. Linked to Coastal Hazards
                                  Adaptation Plan.
                                • Prepare localised modelling and concept design of inundation          • Whether action is completed                        2021/22
                                  hazard reduction measures for Noosaville/Noosa Heads area
                                  (e.g. flood levy, landscape design, stormwater improvements).
                                  Linked to Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan.
                                • Implement a monitoring program for coastal hazards for                • Whether action is completed                        Ongoing
                                  monitoring coastal erosion and inundation risks. Linked to
                                  Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan. Linked to Coastal Hazards
                                  Adaptation Plan.
7.2 Build Council and           • Provide best available hazard information and update design           • Whether action is completed                        Ongoing
community awareness and           guidelines and capital works procedures for design, upgrade
preparedness for climate          and maintenance of infrastructure works and building assets,
change and extreme                e.g. new cyclone standards informed by the State’s severe wind
weather events                    assessment.
                                • Work with industry partners to conduct disaster management            • % respondents aware of the level of risk           Ongoing
                                  and climate change preparedness workshops with various                  posed by climate change and natural hazard
                                  sectors (ie. businesses, households, aged care, farmers).               events with respect to heatwaves, drought,
                                                                                                          flooding, beach erosion, stormtide, tropical
                                                                                                          diseases, extreme weather
                                                                                                        • % respondents that understand the topic of
                                                                                                          climate change and what it means for Noosa
                                                                                                          and themselves.
                                                                                                        • % respondents that are prepared for the
                                                                                                          risks of climate change and natural hazards
                                                                                                          with respect to heatwaves, drought, flooding,
                                                                                                          beach erosion, stormtide, tropical diseases,
                                                                                                          extreme weather
                                                                                                        • % respondents that are prepared for
                                                                                                          a disaster or emergency and have an
                                                                                                          emergency plan.




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