Understanding climate change impacts in NSW
Understanding the sectoral impacts of climate change in NSW is an essential first step in developing strategies to adapt to unavoidable climate change.
DECC is committed to developing and providing user-friendly, high quality information on climate change in NSW. Under the NSW Greenhouse Plan approximately $2 million over four years was allocated to researching the likely impacts of climate change. DECC's Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program covers a range of areas.
- Aquatic ecosystems
- Bushfires
- Coastal impacts
- Conservation planning
- Health
- Invasive species
- Terrain mapping
- Threatened species
- Water
Future climate change research
There is still a lot of uncertainty about the regional impacts and implications of climate change in NSW. DECC is working collaboratively with leading experts to provide state-of-the art, integrated climate change research.
Find out more
- Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is carrying out a number of studies into the causes of climate change and the impacts on NSW primary industries.
- Within the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research, the Centre for Climate Change Studies conducts climate research in the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctica.
- Under the COAG National Climate Change Adaptation Framework (PDF 328kb), NSW is participating in an initiative to develop national priorities for adaptation research. This work is being co-ordinated by the Department of Climate Change and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, hosted by Griffith University, Queensland.
Page last updated: 05 August 2008