Climate Adaptation Plan

To ensure our community and region can adapt and thrive in a changing climate, the Shire is developing its first Climate Adaptation Plan.

We are seeking input from the community - across industry, business and households to better understand the risks we all face in a changing climate, and the actions we can take to build our climate resilience now and into the future.

This Climate Adaptation Plan complements the Shire’s existing Climate Action Plan Part 1: Towards Zero Emissions which focuses on mitigation - actions we are taking to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, like putting renewable energy on our buildings and increasing urban greening.

Because the climate is already changing and we expect to experience more extreme weather events in the future, we need to start thinking about ways to eliminate, reduce or adapt to these changes now.

The good news is, that doing so also brings enormous co-benefits - like the fact that planting more trees and increasing urban greening not only draws down carbon from the atmosphere but also protects and cools us in a warming climate and creates more liveable, healthy public spaces for us all to enjoy.

Our Climate Action Plan will:

• Identify key climate risks to our community and environment
• Determine how the Shire can support the community to adapt to a changing climate
• Identify opportunities to collaborate with community groups / organisations to build resilience to climate change

How can you get involved?

• Attend a workshop
• Complete our survey

Workshops:

We are hosting a series of workshops around the region in March and invite anyone interested in participating to RSVP to the workshop you’d like to attend.

RSVP essential. You can RSVP by visiting our Eventbrite page.

Witchcliffe - Thursday 14 March - 5pm-7pm - Druids Hall

Augusta - Friday 15 March - 10am-12pm – Augusta Council Chambers

Margaret River – Saturday 16 March - 10am-12pm - Margaret River Council Chambers

All venues are wheelchair accessible.

A free childcare service is available for the Saturday workshop.

Survey

Complete our online survey below.

Hard copies of the survey are available upon request.

Survey closes at 5pm, Thursday 4 April.

Have a question? Contact our Sustainability Team on 9780 5268 or email sustainability@amrshire.wa.gov.au