Carbon Crunch Report 2024: Brisbane

Australia needs to plan for, and adapt to, the changing nature of climate risk now and in the decades ahead. (1)

Increases in the severity and frequency of extreme weather events presents risks to the resilience of critical and essential supply chains. (2)

Key agencies and organisations across Australia are now acutely aware of the urgent need for climate action, particularly in the infrastructure and transport sectors. Achieving net zero as well as increasing resilience to the effects of climate change will require radical departures from business-as-usual project delivery. Integrated approaches to decarbonisation and climate resilience maximising broader co-benefits will be required from governments and industry. The easy steps have already been taken. A new level of heightened outcome-focussed collaboration is critical.

Brisbane’s first Carbon Crunch event was held on 30 October 2024 and delivered in partnership with the Australian British Chamber of Commerce. The event focussed on the transport sector and its hugely important role in sectoral resilience as well as in reaching local and national decarbonisation objectives. We’re excited to share those insights with you in our Carbon Crunch Brisbane report. 

1 CSIRO’s State of the Climate Report, 2022.

2 National Climate Risk Assessment, 2022.