The NSW government will overhaul key Treasury guidance to ensure climate risk is properly considered, and will require all agencies to report on progress towards climate change resilience.
Industry is set to face a range of new requirements when planning new or expanded projects, under a groundwater strategy being developed by the NSW government.
South Australia's EPA will review business environmental licence conditions to ensure they take proper account of the increasing risk of extreme weather, according to a new climate change position statement.
The Victorian government today gazetted changes that require planners to prepare for sea level rise of 0.8 metres by 2100, and which explicitly make retreat from the coast a response option.
Councils and other planning agencies should "plan to rebuild for the future, not the present" in the aftermath of natural disasters, according to a new guide from the NSW government.