Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment
ABSTRACT Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment is built on the latest science as well as learnings from other countries’ national risk assessments. The goal of the risk assessment was to identify the priority risks of climate change to Australia as a nation. Due to timeline obligat...
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| author | Brenda B. Lin Aysha Fleming Lygia Romanach Fanny A. Boulaire Tim Capon Murni Po Stephen Cook Rebecca Darbyshire Sonia Bluhm Guy Barnett |
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| description | ABSTRACT Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment is built on the latest science as well as learnings from other countries’ national risk assessments. The goal of the risk assessment was to identify the priority risks of climate change to Australia as a nation. Due to timeline obligations, this process needed to be completed in 4 months, a considerably shorter timeframe than other national climate risk assessments. In this paper, the authors share learnings from the process of implementing the first pass of Australia's National Climate Risk Assessment, which brought together more than 240 stakeholders across eight systems to co‐develop a set of national priority risks. These learnings are used to provide recommendations and advice for working at the national scale and within short timeframes. First, a rapid climate risk assessment can bring together a significant diversity and range of stakeholders to engage in a national process and provide a broad perspective of the priorities that should be pursued. Second, the design of the process can provide multiple opportunities to iterate through drafts of risks in rapid succession. Third, bringing stakeholders into discussion across systems can increase understanding of how risks are connected and how future work could be pursued across systems for more effective risk management and adaptation planning. Our learnings help inform how future climate risk assessments can embrace the complexity of systemic risks and highlight the importance of building stakeholder networks to support both the risk assessment process and the adaptation work that follows. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-61ceb9826e7342d2b83afdd6f701a7412025-08-20T03:29:22ZengWileyClimate Resilience and Sustainability2692-45872025-06-0141n/an/a10.1002/cli2.70004Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk AssessmentBrenda B. Lin0Aysha Fleming1Lygia Romanach2Fanny A. Boulaire3Tim Capon4Murni Po5Stephen Cook6Rebecca Darbyshire7Sonia Bluhm8Guy Barnett9CSIRO Environment Dutton Park Queensland AustraliaCSIRO Environment Hobart Tasmania AustraliaCSIRO Environment Dutton Park Queensland AustraliaCSIRO Environment Dutton Park Queensland AustraliaCSIRO Environment Black Mountain Australian Capital Territory AustraliaCSIRO Environment Black Mountain Australian Capital Territory AustraliaCSIRO Environment Darwin Northern Territory AustraliaCSIRO Agriculture and Food Black Mountain Australian Capital Territory AustraliaScientell Pty Ltd Melbourne Victoria AustraliaCSIRO Environment Black Mountain Australian Capital Territory AustraliaABSTRACT Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment is built on the latest science as well as learnings from other countries’ national risk assessments. The goal of the risk assessment was to identify the priority risks of climate change to Australia as a nation. Due to timeline obligations, this process needed to be completed in 4 months, a considerably shorter timeframe than other national climate risk assessments. In this paper, the authors share learnings from the process of implementing the first pass of Australia's National Climate Risk Assessment, which brought together more than 240 stakeholders across eight systems to co‐develop a set of national priority risks. These learnings are used to provide recommendations and advice for working at the national scale and within short timeframes. First, a rapid climate risk assessment can bring together a significant diversity and range of stakeholders to engage in a national process and provide a broad perspective of the priorities that should be pursued. Second, the design of the process can provide multiple opportunities to iterate through drafts of risks in rapid succession. Third, bringing stakeholders into discussion across systems can increase understanding of how risks are connected and how future work could be pursued across systems for more effective risk management and adaptation planning. Our learnings help inform how future climate risk assessments can embrace the complexity of systemic risks and highlight the importance of building stakeholder networks to support both the risk assessment process and the adaptation work that follows.https://doi.org/10.1002/cli2.70004climate risk assessmentco‐developmentcomplex systemsregional climate variationstakeholder engagementsystems analysis |
| spellingShingle | Brenda B. Lin Aysha Fleming Lygia Romanach Fanny A. Boulaire Tim Capon Murni Po Stephen Cook Rebecca Darbyshire Sonia Bluhm Guy Barnett Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment Climate Resilience and Sustainability climate risk assessment co‐development complex systems regional climate variation stakeholder engagement systems analysis |
| title | Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment |
| title_full | Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment |
| title_fullStr | Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment |
| title_short | Learnings From the Co‐Development of Priority Risks in Australia's First National Climate Risk Assessment |
| title_sort | learnings from the co development of priority risks in australia s first national climate risk assessment |
| topic | climate risk assessment co‐development complex systems regional climate variation stakeholder engagement systems analysis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/cli2.70004 |
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