Sunshine Coast and Noosa Regional Critical Infrastructure Failure and Cascading Climate Risks Project

Advancing our regional partnership to better plan for complex climate risks.

Provide a solid foundation

Establish the project and connect with key critical infrastructure providers across the region.

Baseline Stocktake

Baseline assessment of current knowledge on regional critical infrastructure failure & cascading risks in our region.

Critical infrastructure failure scenarios

Develop future climate hazard scenarios and critical infrastructure failure scenarios to enable the assessment of risks to Council services.

Assess cascading climate risks

Assess climate risks to Council services from critical infrastructure failure and assess cascading impacts to community.

Preparedness and adaptation measures

Identify practical preparedness and adaptation measures that Councils could implement to reduce their climate and disaster risks.

High level economic business case

Deliver a high level economic business case to guide decision making on implementation of resilience measures.

Sharing learnings

Evaluate project outcomes and share project learnings to improve best practice climate risk management within the broader industry.