BURDEKIN DRY TROPICS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN 2016-2026
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SUCCESS INDICATORS
By or before 2026:
• climate variability and change predictions are incorporated into planning and natural resource management;
• the region’ s carbon store has increased and carbon emissions reduced;
• there is increased investment in, and access to, renewable energy electricity, fuel resources and consumable products;
• communities and individuals involved in NRM have the knowledge and capacity to adapt to climate change impacts;
• there is increased landscape resilience to impacts of a changing climate.
“ Australian agriculture can be a net producer of energy rather than a consumer and buyer of energy, and farmers must think about how energy production can fit into rural landcapes. Solar, wind and biomass as energy producers are a natural thing Landcare can be getting into. Overall we are going to see a move away from big centralised energy grids based on big power stations to a more decentralised approach where more people are generating energy. There’ s a whole range of business models for the farming community, which Landcare needs to be thinking about.”
Professor Andrew Campbell, Director of Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University 2015
CLIMATE CHANGE