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About Climate Wise Communities
Climate Wise Communities is an award-winning initiative in consultation with emergency management agencies and government.
Climate change is bringing more frequent and more extreme weather events to Noosa. We can no longer solely rely on recovery efforts to protect us from disasters. Resilience is needed to build a Climate Wise Noosa that is future-proof and ready for the new normal.
With these online resources and the Ready Check tool we hope to actively engage individuals and communities in strengthening the resilience of their homes and neighbourhoods.
Our Strategy
- Raise awareness of local risk factors through knowledge sharing, community engagement, Simtable and resilience workshops, and access to experts
- Build communication/social networks that enable communities to prepare, respond and recover from extreme events
- Promote shared responsibility for extreme events
Solutions for Resilience
- Targeting ‘at risk’ community members
- Ready Check for personal/property/community readiness to extreme weather events
- Partnerships with councils, emergency management agencies, Non-government organisations and community groups
- Workshops, tools and access to experts to engage the community in preparing for extreme events
- The Climate Wise Communities program works in partnership with emergency combat and support agencies, as well as other related community services, to deliver the program
Local Disaster Management Group
The Local Disaster Management Group (LDMG) addresses extreme weather events across all agencies involved. This web site mainly deals with bushfire, floods, heatwave, storms and landslides run with the support of the associated agencies. Agencies include Queensland Police Service (QPS), Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES - Fire and Rescue and Rural Fire Service), and Queensland State Emergency Service (SES). Organisations such as Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, Australian Red Cross, QLD Ambulance Service, Dept of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Dept of Education, Queensland Reconstruction Authority, Energex, NBN Co, SEQ Water, SLSQ, Tourism Noosa, Unity Water, Maritime Safety Queensland, and Marine Rescue Queensland also support.