5.12 Climate change and environmental sustainability
The Department of Human Services aims to ensure that the human service sector is prepared to address climate change risks. Consistent with this, organisations are encouraged to:
- include climate change risks within the scope of their risk managment practice;
- prepare climate change adaptation plans detailing adaptation goals, objectives and risk treatments; and
- commence implementation of the climate change adaptation plan within a timely manner.
A good basis for undertaking this work is Climate Change Impacts and Risk Management A Guide for Business and Government by the Australian Government and Heritage, Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra 2006.
The Department of Human Services intends to produce additional material to assist organisations over the rest of the 2009 calendar year.