Climate resilience

Brisbane City Council is working hard to ensure Brisbane is a climate-resilient city and is taking an adaptive management approach which aims to:

  • understand our risk to future events
  • establish good leadership and strong governance
  • undertake resilience planning to prepare, respond and recover from events
  • coordinate implementation across all government levels and with the community
  • benchmark system performance and continually review and adjust for improvements.

Brisbane. Clean, Green Sustainable 2017-2031outlines specific actions Council is taking to ensure the resilience of the community, built form and infrastructure and the environment.

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Get advice on how to prepare your property, emergency kit and plans, and how to stay safe before, during and after a severe weather event.

Brisbane's Total Water Cycle Management Plan (BTWCMP) helps guide Brisbane City Council's management of our city's water resources.

Council has a range of free tools and information to help you understand your flood risk and prepare for possible flooding on, or near, your property. 

Council is developing a Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy to assess the risk from projected effects of sea level rise over the medium to long term.

Council is committed to ensuring Brisbane remains Australia's most biodiverse capital city in the face of a changing climate.

Council plants 13,500 new street trees each year and provides free native plants to residential ratepayers, schools and community groups to assist in shading and cooling our suburbs.

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Brisbane City Council acknowledges this Country and its Traditional Custodians. We pay our respects to the Elders, those who have passed into the Dreaming; those here today; those of tomorrow.