The Woy Woy Peninsula is vulnerable to climate change and is lacking resilience to deal with it.
Among the expected effects of climate change are more variable, volatile and extreme weather, including higher and lower rainfall years, higher rainfall intensities, stronger winds and storms, hotter summers and the effects of sea level rise.
These are expected to manifest themselves with more frequent and deeper flooding, greater heat island effect, more storm damage, and greater tidal inundation and coastal erosion. Among the indirect consequences are greater energy consumption, greater health and financial impacts, particularly on the poor and people renting, greater mortality, particularly among the elderly and lower quality of life generally, with a less comfortable climate.
Peninsula Council would see this as its most pressing strategic challenge.
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