Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
NT Youth Round Table
Northern Territory. Department of the Chief Minister. Office of Youth Affairs
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2014
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NT Youth Round Table newsletter
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7 (IPCC, Summary for Policymakers , 2007) Effect on the NT The NT will be particularly affected by changes in the climate. Climate modelling indicates we will have more extreme rainfall, sea-level rise and more intense cyclones over the next 50 years. This will mean that long sections of coastline, river deltas, wetland areas and off-shore islands will be susceptible to erosion and saltwater inundation, while inland areas are likely to have more bushfires, dust storms, extremes in temperatures, flooding and droughts (Green, 2006). Remote communities The people most affected by these changes will be thousands of Indigenous Australians living in outstations scattered across Northern Australia from the Kimberley through to Arnhem Land, the central deserts, far north Queensland and the Torres Strait. A lack of basic infrastructure, lower social and economic status and existing chronic health problems also contribute to many of these communities having lower adaptive capacity (Green, 2006) (IPCC, Summary for policymakers. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, 2014).