Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Australia

The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Dr Zsuzsa Banhalmi-Zakar, Lecturer at James Cook University, QLD joins us at the conference to discuss ‘Opportunities and Challenges for Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Australia’. While there is a great need for projects that help coastal communities adapt to the impacts of climate change, investment flows into adaptation are scarce. A recent study commissioned by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility describes several ways to finance and/or fund the broad range of adaptation initiatives needed to secure coastal assets. The study draws on …

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