Action Scorecards 2025

Adaptation

Councils play a vital role in mitigating climate change by reducing emissions, but with increasingly frequent and more intense heatwaves, floods and wildfires, they must also lead on climate adaptation. Councils can build climate resilient communities by supporting local food production, planting trees, and ensuring that both new and existing homes are climate-resilient. Embedding resilience into council policies, strategies, and engagement is essential to making adaptation a core part of council operations.

The Scorecards include 93 questions, almost all of which contribute both to reducing emissions and increasing resilience in councils and communities. For this adaptation theme, we have grouped and highlighted the questions that are more relevant to climate adaptation, which do not feature as key questions on each of the sections infographics and summaries.