Climate Risk Training and Engagement Package for councils

Local councils have a responsibility to mitigate, manage and disclose climate risk in their governance and decision making.

Council staff can now access and use the complete set of materials to help improve understanding about climate risk management, helping councils make well-informed decisions.

How these resources can help

These tools will benefit South Australian councils and their communities by providing:

• a consistent approach to climate risk training across councils
• highlighting the latest risk frameworks for climate change impacts including physical, transitional, legal and financial risks
• links to processes and guides for the management of strategic and operational climate risk with local government.

Access the resources

Key features

The Climate Risk Training and Engagement package includes core training modules covering three major areas:

Climate Risk and Council: This introduces key concepts of climate risk for councils, the role of council including duties and consequences, and climate-related financial disclosures.

Climate Governance: This builds on the concepts of the first module by addressing how climate risk can be integrated with a council's risk management framework and what good climate risk governance looks like.

Climate Risk Assessment: This details the steps of completing a climate risk assessment.

Other key features of the package include:

• self-assessment checklist which acts as a handout for participants
• case studies to provide useful examples of successful risk management approaches being used by councils
• training guide which outlines an introduction to the modules and case studies, how they are to be used, and tips on how to deliver to participants
• demonstration webinar to introduce the tools and demonstrate how to deliver the training modules.

LGA developed the materials in collaboration with expert consultants, input from councils and technical advice from Local Government Risk Services.

Funding was provided by the Local Government Research and Development Scheme and Resilient East.

Find out more

For more information about the Climate Risk Training and Engagement Package and how your council can get the most out of it, please contact Andrew Nesbitt – Central Coordinator Regional Climate Partnerships.

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