Climate Impact Services

To protect life, property and the natural environment from increasingly significant, climate change risks facing Australian communities and their key assets, planning ahead is essential. Acting prior, during and after extreme weather events builds resilience in asset infrastructure and vulnerable communities so future risks and consequences are minimised.

Planning for likely climate change related impacts requires greater understanding of the anticipated changes within local scenarios. Spatial Vision works with experts in asset management, community development, climate risk and impacts, councils and emergency services in order to support local governments and organisations in building resilience to climate risk.

Our Services

Our experts can generate vulnerability assessments that incorporate extreme weather impact modelling into a decision-making framework. Consequently, estimates of asset loss, consequences of service disruption and cost implications are measured and quantified.

Using the latest climate models and a variety of analytical tools, assessments assign likely vulnerability ratings to climate hazards. Chiefly, these include rainfall variability, sea level rise or inundation to assets and community profiles. In addition, standardised reporting provides both numerical and descriptive insights into these likely impacts.

As a result, stakeholders are better equipped to financially quantify and mitigate the risks posed by climate change and associated extreme weather events in their area. This information can assist clients to confidently facilitate better long-term asset and community planning. Ultimately, these vulnerability profiles will inform measures to build resilience and ensure ongoing service delivery to the community.

Springtime Storms and Damge in Melbourne Australia

Deep flood water across Heatherton Road highway in Dandenong

Key Services

Vulnerability Assessment
Climate Impact Assessment
Community Resilience Analysis
Consultation and Scoping
Data Collation and Reporting
Data Visualisation
Mentoring and Support

Climate Risk Map

Click on image to ascertain your home’s vulnerability to climate change via the award winning Climate Risk Map, developed for the Climate Council.

OUR CLIMATE WORK

March 12, 2024

Spatial Vision's interactive Climate Heat Map of Australia developed for the Climate Council projects the likelihood of extreme heat days under various emission scenarios across the entire country.

February 28, 2024

With the help of Spatial Vision, the Climate Council have release the Climate Heat Map of Australia - an interactive tool that shows how cutting climate pollution will limit extreme heat in our neighbourhoods.

February 12, 2024

Through Spatial Vision’s 2023 Pacific Geospatial Skills Development Program, evidence was sought to support Fiji's need to enhance their overall geospatial capability to guide development of critical spatial infrastructure, upskill resources, shape policy and provide detailed investment roadmaps.

January 19, 2024

The South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) engaged Spatial Vision to undertake an asset vulnerability assessment on selected assets and a financial review to assist member councils in better understanding and planning for the likely impacts of anticipated climate change.

January 15, 2024

Climate data informed geospatial strategies are essential for developing multi-hazard early warning systems to safeguard lives and livelihoods.

March 3, 2023

Climate change threatens the economic, social and environmental stability of Pacific Islands. Spatial Vision can help create geospatial frameworks, develop critical skills, improve understanding and implement evidence-based policies, strategies and roadmaps to support sustainable development across the Pacific.

November 15, 2022

Be it the effects of climate change or La Niña, Australia has been inundated with extreme flooding events in 2022. Spatial Vision’s award winning mapping and analysis work for E2DesignLab, Melbourne Water and affected councils in the flood prone Elster Creek catchment zone charts a course for vulnerable urban areas.

August 2, 2022

Spatial Vision developed an interactive map of Australia for the Climate Council that represents the vulnerability of any address to the effects extreme weather over different timeframes and emission scenarios. The underlying data was supplied by Climate Valuation.

June 21, 2022

A Spatial Vision collaboration with E2Designlab and Hansen Partnership to complete a permeability research project for City of Port Phillip has been ‘Highly Commended’ at Stormwater Victoria‘s Awards for Excellence.

December 13, 2021

The South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) engaged Spatial Vision with the support of Marsden Jacob Associates (MJA) to undertake an asset vulnerability assessment on selected assets and a financial review to assist member councils in better understanding and planning for the likely impacts of anticipated climate change.

November 19, 2020

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and the Barwon Regional Partnership Councils engaged Spatial Vision to help build their capacity in the application of spatial technologies to better plan for and understand the consequences of anticipated climate change and associated extreme weather events for their communities.

August 2, 2019

The North East Catchment Management Authority engaged Spatial Vision to model and spatially represent changes in key climatic factors, agricultural productivity and water balance.

July 19, 2019

The Urban Sustainability brand within the City of Melbourne required a pilot project to analyse and map the thermal comfort for pedestrian routes.

February 16, 2018

In partnership with DELWP, we undertook an assessment of the likely impacts of anticipated climate change on the Victorian coastline to inform the prioritisation of the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program.

December 20, 2017

Integrating and analysing geographic and environmental data for the entire Victorian coastline to address some of Victoria’s most pressing environmental, economic and resource issues.

July 12, 2017

Spatial Vision and Natural Decisions were engaged by 7 of Victoria’s 10 CMAs to support NRM planning efforts in view of the likely impacts of climate change.

January 20, 2016

The Australian Government is committed to reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions to meet international emission reduction targets; developing a plan for a cleaner environment; and adapting to the impacts of climate change

✓ Climate Adaptation Planning for Hunter Region NSW (Partnering with Marsden Jacobs)
✓ Scenario Planning for Melbourne’s Peri-Urban and Green Wedge (Partnering with RMIT University)

✓ Statewide NRM Planning for Climate Change for Catchment Management Authorities (Partnering with Natural Decisions and Victoria University)
✓ EG NRM Climate Change Adaptation Plan (Partnering with Natural Decisions)

✓ Local Coastal Hazard Assessment Inventory Support
✓ Coastal First Pass Assessment for City of Port Phillip (Partnering with Victoria University)
✓ Climate Impact First Pass Assessment for City of Melbourne
✓ Blue Green Opportunities Map for City of Melbourne (Partnering with E2DesignLab)
✓ Catchment Scale IWM Plans for Greater Metropolitan Melbourne (Partnering with E2DesignLab)
✓ Embedding Climate Adaptation in Agiculture for the North East Catchment Management Authority

SPATIAL SERVICES