The National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held in Brisbane from the 23-24 March 2017. Mr Mark Baker-Jones, Partner at DibbsBarker joins us at the conference and will present on the topic of ‘A Built Environment and Infrastructure Sector Plan: How Industry and Government Meet on Sustainability’.
Mr Mark Baker-Jones
The Queensland state government, leading institutional property owners and developers, and representative industry bodies, have piloted the development of a built environment and infrastructure Sector Adaptation Plan (SAP). With a focus on the development industry, a SAP can identify the operational, managerial, and financial impacts of climate change upon the built environment and infrastructure sector, and address how the sector will achieve climate adaptation by taking into account those impacts while balancing stakeholder interests.
Development of the SAP required establishing an agreed set of stand-alone sector principles for achieving climate adaptation. The Principles enable and support adaptation in the sector. They encourage safe, efficient, and adaptive development that addresses risks to the people and communities that will use development, or be affected by the environment, infrastructure, and economy arising from development. Following on from the Principles, the Plan highlights the sector and the government’s ongoing commitment to managing the risks resulting from climate change to reduce their impacts on the people and communities.
The paper considers how the achievement of the SPA will not only provide stakeholders with confidence in the task-orientated direction of this process but will also provide a solid platform for future collaboration and buy-in as the SAP continues to evolve. It also considers those lessons learned and information garnered during the development of the SAP and how they can be applied to both determine and achieve future aims and tasks towards adaptation, within this sector and across others.
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