Property Council of Australia submission on national adaptation plan issues paper

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The Property Council of Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the Australian Government’s National Adaptation Plan issues paper. While mitigating climate change through reducing emissions now is vital, many of the impacts of our changing climate cannot be avoided and the effects of current emissions will be felt over the coming decades.

The Australian Government has an important role to play in delivering a national adaptation plan to ensure our communities are empowered and resourced to enhance resilience by adapting to those impacts, which will include greater frequency of extreme weather events like fire and floods as well as rising temperatures. We commend the Australian Government’s recently released National Climate Risk Assessment: First pass assessment report which examines and prioritises action on nationally significant climate risks. The cumulative and cascading nature of climate risk demands a strategic risk-based approach to adaptation.

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