Climate risk and opportunity management
The Australian Government is lifting the capability of the Australian Public Service to build climate considerations into business-as-usual practices to ensure the policies, programs and services provided to communities are resilient and adaptable.
Readiness to prepare for, and respond to, the impact of the changing climate is critical to the APS continuing to achieve its objectives.
Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is enabling the APS to identify, assess and manage climate risks and opportunities through the Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program.
The program is designed to build climate risk knowledge across the Australian Government and embed consideration of climate risk into project and policy design. It promotes leadership in public sector climate risk management and better decision-making by training departments and agencies to understand and treat physical and transitional risks.
DCCEEW is delivering the program through:
- APS Academy online learning modules to increase climate risk knowledge
- guidance documentation and a support service to provide expert advice on undertaking climate risk assessments
- workshops across the APS to help staff understand how to manage their climate risks
- an interactive online climate risk assessment tool to streamline the assessment process.
The Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program supports the introduction of climate disclosure by building climate risk capability in the APS. Management and disclosure of climate risks across Commonwealth entities will help to spend public funding efficiently and effectively.
A total of $9.3 million has been committed by the Australian Government to facilitate the delivery of the Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program.
Find out more
Australian Government (n.d.) Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program, Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website, accessed 31 July 2024.