Climate change in Alexandrina
The effects of climate change (www.bom.gov.au) are already being felt across our community with:
- increased frequency and intensity of heatwaves
- increase in average temperature
- lower rainfall and decrease of winter rainfall
- increase in intensity of rainfall events
- increase in intensity of bushfires
- increased coastal hazards such as erosion and flooding related to sea level rise combined with storms.
The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Sixth Assessment Report shows that world is set to reach 1.5°C of warming within just the next two decades. Whether we limit warming to this level and prevent the most severe climate impacts depends on actions taken this decade.
Our region is part of the Murray Basin and climate projections indicate that average temperatures will continue to increase with more hot days and warm spells. Rainfall will decline, interspersed with heavy rainfall intensities and vulnerability to flooding. You can find out more about climate change projections for our region on the Australian Government’s Climate Change in Australia website.
Learn how Alexandrina Council is becoming climate ready
Alexandrina Council takes climate change seriously. Therefore, we prepare for, and respond to, a changing climate by reducing and recording our greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and by becoming more resilient to changes by altering our behaviour and systems (adaptation).
Find out what Council is doing by clicking on the links below.
