Adaptation planning for CSOs and PCPs

SGGPCP has played an integral role in developing a policy briefing paper to state government as a direct result of VCCCAR’s (Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research) Implementing Adaptation Research Project. The policy brief entitled Adaptation planning for community service organisations and primary care partnerships identifies the impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing and recognises the particular implications for disadvantaged people. The policy paper recommends that in order to support vulnerable people we need to engage in adaptation planning and that primary health and community agencies can play a central role in facilitating improvements to community resilience. The paper also reminds us that we need to move beyond emergency and extreme weather event planning. The document includes a number of policy recommendations and key messages including that adaptation planning needs to be a key priority for the health sector and that PCP should be co-ordinators for adaptation and action. http://www.vcccar.org.au/sites/default/files/publications/Implementing%20Adaptation%20Policy%20Brief.pdf