ALM UNDP

Summary:

ICLEI Oceania has been working with councils across Australia to build capacity in climate change adaptation through the delivery of its Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Adaptation Initiative. The result of the first year's work on adaptation planning and resilience building is the Local Government Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit. This toolkit has been developed with funding from the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and has been piloted with five local Councils from around Australia.

Using the toolkit

The adaptive management process that is presented in this toolkit merges the Australian Government’s risk management framework with the capacity building frameworks that ICLEI Oceania has developed over the years of supporting CCP councils.

This toolkit, which should be used alongside the Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management guide from the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, outlines an adaptive management process and provides a set of tools and exercises meant to assist councils as they work through the process.

This toolkit is organised according to the adaptive management process. It outlines how and when to use each of the included tools as a complement to the adaptive management process. As the tools are voluntary components of the adaptive management process and each tool is designed for specific needs, individual councils will need to determine which of the tools are appropriate for their particular use.

The tools range from simple and self-directed templates to more complex exercises that are best delivered by an experienced facilitator, whether within or external to council.

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