2021-03-09 P&E Agenda - Item 8 - Attachment 1 - Climate Change Response Plan

Climate change principles and objectives
The following principles from the Climate Change Response Policy and overarching
Environment Strategy will help guide strategic priorities, and the implementation of climate
change actions:

       Maintain a precautionary approach to climate change adaptation and emissions
        reduction by developing and implementing short- and long-term responses that seek
        to achieve timely, well informed and effective action while also delivering other
        social, economic and environmental co-benefits
       Commit to being innovative, flexible and adaptive in responding to climate change
       Increase resilience of the community, the economy and our natural assets to
        environmental hazards and climate change
       Ensure ecological sustainability is fully integrated into decision making in order to
        help secure the continued availability of natural resources for present and future
        generations
       Use a scientific evidence-based approach to managing the environment and
        climate change and adapt and respond appropriately as new information arises
       Take an adaptive management approach to climate risks and periodically
        undertaking climate risk assessments and updates consistent with ISO 31000:2009
       Actively communicate and partner with the broader community to improve
        awareness and build capacity around environment issues, climate risks and
        emissions reduction
       Provide up-to-date and balanced information to the community on climate change
        that builds community understanding, preparedness and resilience, and helps
        mobilise community action on climate change and emissions reduction.



Climate projections
Council recognises the important role of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) plays in reviewing and summarising the latest climate change
science for public use. Due to slow global progress on reducing carbon emissions, Council
will use, as a minimum, regional climate projections that are based on a low-moderate global
emissions reduction trend to inform its climate risk analysis (commonly referred to as
“business as usual” or BAU). We will also use climate change projections that are consistent
with those used or supported by the Queensland Government.

In the absence of either of these, we will seek to apply climate projections published by the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Council will commence a review of its climate response plans and actions within 12 months
of the publication date of new regional climate projections from the above organisations.




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Noosa Climate Change Response Plan - draft for council endorsement March 2021