Planning for Climate Change Impacts

Climate change will affect ‘normal’ weather patterns and lead to more extreme weather events.    Tourism businesses can anticipate and adapt to the impacts of climate change on their business by assessing their exposure and taking action to address these impacts. This checklist will assist you in planning for these climate change impacts.

Your Tourism Business and extreme weather events

• Flooding and storms (including coastal) (53kb)
• Drought (40kb)
• Bushfire (44kb)
• Heatwave (40kb)
  

Your Tourism Business and changes to our ‘normal’ weather patterns

• Hotter drier summers (42kb)
• Warmer, wetter winters (41kb)
• More Episodes of Intense Rainfall (42kb)
• Increasing sea levels (40kb)

And finally, remember to include options for improving resilience to extreme events and changing weather trends when you plan for major changes to existing premises, building new premises or relocating to a new area.  And don’t forget that you can introduce many measures (now and as you introduce other changes) to help reduce the causes of climate change. By both reducing the cause and preparing for the impacts of climate change, you can help your business survive and prosper in the years ahead.