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Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Hazards Profiles

The Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Hazards Profiles have been developed by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage in collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology, the Ministry for Police and Emergency Services, and the University of Wollongong under the auspices of the NSW State Emergency Management Committee.

Profiles have been developed for each NSW State Plan region and are intended to inform decision makers about:

• The current exposure of each region to eight natural hazards (fire, wind, lightning, hail, flash flooding, riverine flooding, heatwaves, and coastal erosion and inundation where regionally applicable); and
• Projections of future changes to these natural hazards due to climate change.

The likely impacts were determined based on the climate projections developed for the NSW Climate Impact Profile.

Read the overview of likely changes to natural hazards for NSW: Statewide Overview (10597CCNatHazardStateSummary.pdf, 227KB)

The Profiles for each State Plan region are also available for download:

• Hunter Region (10591CCNatHazardHunter.pdf, 366KB)
• Illawarra Region (10592CCNatHazardHunter.pdf, 331KB)
• North Coast Region (10594CCNatHazardNthCoast, 313KB)
• New England/North West Region (10593CCNatHazardNENW.pdf, 327KB)
• Riverina Murray Region (10595CCNatHazardRivMurray.pdf, 572KB)
• Western Region (10599CCNatHazardWestern.pdf, 302KB)
• South East Region (10596CCNatHazardSthEast.pdf, 955KB)
• Sydney/Central Coast Region (10598CCNatHazardSydney.pdf, 644KB)

The current resolution of global climate models means that relatively large damaging weather events such as East Coast Lows are currently not captured. OEH is leading a multi-institutional research initiative to address specific research gaps.