Climate Change is arguably the biggest environmental challenge of our time. In the last year, it has captured the public imagination in a way that few environmentalists thought possible. Tim Flannery’s book The Weather Makers, Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, reports from the IPCC and Sir Nicholas Stern’s review of the economic impacts of ignoring the challenge have all contributed to massive public concern about climate change.
Local government has been at the forefront of responding to climate change. Greenhouse Alliances are groups of local governments that have decided that they can make more effective responses when they work in concert. Five councils around Victoria’s Western Port formed the Western Port Greenhouse Alliance in 2004. In 2009, they were joined by three further councils to form the South East Councils Climate Change Alliance Incorporated.
Please look over our website, read the Latest Emissions, find out more about the science of climate change and think about the things that you can do. Look at our projects, ask for further information and make suggestions to us for further responses about this enormous challenge.
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Impacts of climate change on settlements in the Western Port Region
Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Report
The report People, Property and Places sets out the likely impacts from climate change that we could expect around Western Port. We have now completed Risks and Adaptations Workshops with council and agency staff to work out the best ways to respond to these impacts. For the full report, please click on the Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Report and see what we have come up with. The Executive Summary at Risks and Adaptation ES will give you the flavour.
People, Property and Places
Impacts of climate change on settlements in the Western Port Region
CSIRO have crunched their numbers, Marsden Jacob Associates have analysed their data and the SECCCA has joined their councils in the discussion. What might climate change mean for the Western Port region? How might this affect people? What can local government do in responding to climate change? Click on the link to see the report People, Property and Places.
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