Integrating management approaches
Climate change compounds existing threats to heritage values.
Organisations should:
- integrate management of climate change impacts into existing and new heritage management plans. Existing management processes and methods may need to change.
- add climate change to their risk registers. They should regularly review both the identified risks and mitigation measures.
- consider the embodied energy in heritage places. They should also consider the potential contribution of adaptation measures for reducing greenhouse emissions and resource consumption.
In addition to the above, state/local government and government agencies should:
- work together to integrate the assessment and management of climate change impacts to heritage values into climate change policies and actions.
Practical tips for owners and managers
- Build on and update existing strategies and plans for your place/object. Incorporate climate change considerations in everyday management. Consider how climate change could increase (or in some cases, reduce) existing risks or conservation and management issues.
- Prepare a risk register and include climate change impacts along with other risks and regularly review both the identified risks and mitigation measures.
- Ensure that your operational strategies are sustainable and will minimise emissions of greenhouse gases