Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services addresses concerns from the health and community services sector, including local government, about how to respond to climate change and its impacts on communities. It describes what we need to do in local communities to support and protect the people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Australia.
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Useful websites
Sustainability Victoria – Victoria is joining other leading countries and states around the world in committing to do our part to reduce emissions, and keep the global temperature rise to under 2 degrees. TAKE2 is Victoria’s collective climate change pledge initiative to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and keep the global temperature rise to under 2 degrees. We encourage our members and stakeholders to pledge and sign up to be part of Victoria’s action on climate change
health.vic – extreme heat community resources – a suite of communication resources have been developed by Department of Health and Human Services to help councils, health services and other government agencies to raise awareness about the impact of extreme heat on human health
Department of Climate Change Australia
South East Councils Climate Change Alliance
The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research
Victorian Government – Understanding Climate Change
Victorian Department of Health – Environmental Health
Eastern alliance for greenhouse action – Climate Adaptation Roadmap for Melbourne’s East Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. This Monitoring &Evaluation Framework (M&E framework) is designed to assess the degree to which the longer term objectives of the Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap (Roadmap) project are being met and assess how well the Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (EAGA) councils are adapting to climate change.
The Conversation: The three minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail – There are those who say the climate has always changed, and that carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated. That’s true. But it’s also true that since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented over hundreds of millennia. So here’s a short video to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years
Useful apps
VicEmergency is the official Victorian Government app for emergency warnings and information
