Australia - government

Entries for the 2012 Resilient Australia Awards are now open and Executive Director of Security and Emergency Management at Justice and Community Safety, Baden McMaster, is encouraging Canberrans to nominate individuals or organisations who they feel have made a made a difference to disaster resilience within their community...

This report focuses on reforms to policy frameworks that would address barriers to effective adaptation. By Adaptation to climate change, it considers actions taken by households, businesses, other organisations, governments and communities in response to

'Early warning systems are critical to saving lives and to reducing the risks and costs of natural disasters caused by tsunamis. Our region gets more than its share of natural disasters and early warning systems are now agreed as essential to limiting their impacts,' said Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr...

'Small island developing states live most directly with the disastrous reality of climate change.' 'It is therefore crucial that the countries with so much at stake at this meeting should be able to have their voices heard,' said Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr...

Commissioner Dr Wendy Craik noted that ‘the reform priority should be to enable better risk management in the current climate. Reforms to barriers to managing risks in an uncertain future climate should be a lower priority because the costs and benefits are also uncertain.’...

Based on the Australian Gov Attorney General’s Dept Storm Action Guide, this game has been developed as part of the implementation of the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in 2011...

This review is established to examine how best to ensure that the appropriate national measures are in place to foster more complete sharing of risk and equitable sharing of the cost of damage and loss resulting from floods and other natural disasters

This Australian public inquiry aims to identify any specific barriers that inhibit effective adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and high priority options for addressing those barriers. It intends to: (i) examine the costs and benefits of the