In Queensland, Australia, the QCoast2100 programme has been introduced and designed to give all coastal local governments in Queensland the funding, tools and technical support to prepare for increasing coastal hazard risks caused by climate change over the next 80 years.
The $12m Queensland State Government fund covered 48 projects at 31 councils by the time the final allocations were announced in September 2019. For each council, the end result will be a coastal hazard adaptation strategy (Chas).
The programme considers the effect of a projected 80cm sea level rise by 2100 on storm tide incursion, erosion and increased tidal incursion.