NSW Climate Impact Profile Technical Reports
The NSW Climate Impact Profile describes some of the likely impacts of future climate change on NSW’s settlements, lands and ecosystems to help state and regional decision-makers develop their planning and response strategies. There are three technical reports that underpin the information presented in the NSW Impact Profile. They are presented at a regional scale and were developed via a series of expert workshops.
Potential impacts of climate change on soils
The Potential impacts of climate change on soils technical report (20110257CIPSoils.pdf, 1.8MB) presents some of the projected climate change impacts on soils of NSW. Projected climate change has the potential to have severe, but variable impacts on soils in NSW, depending on the bioclimatic zone and the intrinsic vulnerability of the soils in that zone. Changes to land use and management as a result of climatic shifts will also potentially affect soils. This report details the interaction between the known soil degradation processes and the impacts of the common climate change drivers (e.g. seasonal rainfall changes, likely evaporation and temperature increases, sea level rise and rainfall intensity increases).
Potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity
The Potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity technical report (110241CIPBiodiversity.pdf, 1.8MB) presents information from expert workshops held in various State regions on some of the issues, topics and possible outcomes of climate change on biodiversity in NSW. It provides an annotated assessment (including specific regional examples and case studies) of the potential changes to ecological processes and functions as a result of climate change for each ecological community in each region.
The Potential impacts of climate change on coastal zones and flooding risk technical report will be uploaded here shortly.
Page last updated: 09 November 2011
