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The Australian state or territory where the initiative is based. ‘National’ refers to activities conducted across all states and territories at a national scale.
The type of organisation leading the activity (the full typology is available on the metadata page).
The Australian local government area where the initiative is based.
The intended type of adaptation activity (the full typology is available on the metadata page).
The climate hazard the adaptation responds to. ‘General Climate Change’ refers to activities which do not relate to a specific hazard (the full typology is available on the metadata page).
Drawn from Australian Climate Services National Climate Risk Assessment methodology, the system affected by the risk is a grouping of key areas of national importance: including key sectors and assets. Further details are available on the metadata page.
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Australia’s first national adaptation stocktake 

The Australian Adaptation Database is helping to understand Australia’s progress toward climate change adaptation. The database focusses on collecting and categorising a sample of adaptation activities happening across different scales, sectors and geographic locations. The featured examples have been categorised against key criteria such as location, type of organisation implementing them and climate hazard they are responding to.

The database has been created by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Climate Systems Hub Project on Enabling Adaptation Best Practice and we update with new additions on a regular basis. If you would like to see your work represented in the database use the ‘Submit an Entry’ form above.

We regularly collaborate with others who are working on adaptation projects, to represent them in the database, or to discuss how this data might be useful. Please reach out to adaptation-database@unimelb.edu.au

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The Climate Systems Hub is funded by the Australian Government under the National Environmental Science Program. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work across Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future

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