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Increase in summer temperatures may potentially affect on-ground workforce –
maintenance and baggage handlers.
Additional usage of electricity (air-conditioning) resulting in increased business
costs.
Adaptation Planning
AAL intends to implement a climate adaptation program in which the future impacts of
climate change will be assessed and the outcomes considered in future business
planning.
AAL Approach to Managing Climate Change includes:
Implementation of a carbon management program to address:
o
carbon risk (the potential financial and business impact associated with a
carbon constrained economy)
o
climate risk (the potential impact on assets and operations associated
with more variable climate).
Improve AAL’s preparedness against the likely impacts of climate change on
infrastructure and operations:
o
Participate in local and State adaptive planning processes
o
Conduct an infrastructure review against projected climate change
scenarios
o
Update flood models
o
Incorporate, where required, new pavement and building standards into
development and construction guidelines
o
Accommodate, where required, predicted extreme weather events into
the Airport Emergency Plan
Information Sources
Adelaide Airport website:
Master Plan Adelaide Airport Volume 3: Sustainability Plan [Airport Environment
Strategy] 2009.
planning/Vol3MaterPlanDec2009.pdf
Sustainability Policy
orateSustainabilityPolicy.pdf
11.5. Valuing Future Impacts
Over time climate change will result in varying degrees of damage to the region’s private assets and
infrastructure. Damage to these assets or implementation of measures to mitigate damage may result in
wide ranging economic and social consequences for the region. Asset owners and the wider community
will need to make appropriate decisions now and in the future in terms of the timing and scale of
adaptation responses.
Development of an economic framework would allow the net present value of different adaptive response
options to be calculated and considered by decision-makers in light of the risks, thereby ensuring the
most suitable response options to be selected. However, risk to private assets should be the
responsibility of private owners as should the methodology for assessing those risks. Any valuations on
private assets that arise out of the WARCCAP process will only be indicative and should not be relied
upon by other parties.
