Resilient South - Climate Ready Southern Adelaide
Resilient South is about strengthening southern Adelaide so that our businesses, communities and environments can bounce back from the challenges of climate change, and stay productive, connected, and strong. The impacts of a changing climate are already being felt across southern Adelaide. Even if we achieve a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), some changes to our climate are already locked in. This means that we also need to prepare and respond to the impacts from a changing climate (adaptation).
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report makes it clear that:
- We are on track for between 1.2 and 1.9°C of warming by 2040
- Under current policies, this will increase to between 3.3 and 5.7°C of warming by 2100
- We must limit warming to 1.5°C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
- There is still time to take action, but the window is closing fast
- We need to prepare for the climate change that is now locked in
- Avoiding catastrophic changes will require rapidly decarbonising the entire global economy
- We must act now
Climate Change Impacts in Southern Adelaide
More frequent, long-running and intense heat-waves
Less rain overall but more intense storms and flooding
Sea level rise, more coastal erosion and more extreme storm surges
Changes to the growing season
More frequent and extreme fire danger days
We have worked together for many years to plan for changes to our climate. This simple one-page flyer shows some of our priorities.
Resilient south is A Partnership of:
