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1. Purpose
This Climate Change Adaptation Plan:
a. identifies priority landscapes for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the context of
improving the resilience of natural resources;
b. identifies options for climate change adaptation and mitigation, including carbon
sequestration, within focus areas and priority landscapes; and
c. identifies risks to catchment processes from carbon sequestration activities and mitigation
actions.
This Plan contributes to achieving strategic outcomes of the Goulburn Broken Catchment
Management Authority’s (CMA's) Climate Change Integration Strategy 2012-2015 (GB CMA
2012), a sub-strategy of the Goulburn Broken Regional Catchment Strategy (RCS) 2013 -2019 (GB
CMA 2013) (see figure 1).
Figure 1: The relationship between the Goulburn Broken Regional Catchment Strategy, substrategies and local plans for social-ecological systems (GB CMA 2013).
This Plan specifically contributes to the following Climate Change Integration Strategy strategic
outcomes and associated goals and directions:
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integrate climate change into Goulburn Broken CMA programs;
improve understanding of climate change; and
build catchment resilience into sequestration activities.
This Plan has been developed primarily for natural resource management (NRM) planners but may
inform the work of researchers and implementers.
The priorities and management options specifically relate to the Goulburn Broken Catchment,
however, the process for assessing vulnerability and identifying priorities and management options
could inform NRM planning more broadly.
The adaptation and mitigation priorities and associated management options outlined in this Plan
will be considered through the Goulburn Broken CMA’s adaptive management planning processes
for integration into NRM programs and strategies at various spatial scales (see section 9 for more
details).
This Plan is not intended to incorporate all decision-making elements but provides an initial
prioritisation for climate change adaptation and mitigation based on spatially-enabled criteria for
vulnerability and values. Investigation of the interactions between social-ecological systems (SESs)
identified in the Goulburn Broken RCS, drivers of change and how key points of vulnerability to
natural resources may be overcome will continue.
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