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FOI 190505 Document Set Redacted From: s47F on behalf of Price, Melissa (MP) To: MinisterialCorrespondence Subject: MC19-001430 - cover letter and briefing document from the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee Workshop - the World Heritage Workshop Canberra 29 October 2018 - HRMD Date: Friday, 8 February 2019 5:29:23 PM Attachments: AWHAC_LettertoMinisterPrice8Feb2019.pdf Brief_MinisterPrice_AWHACWorkshop29Oct2018.pdf From: s47F Sent: Friday, 8 February 2019 12:31 PM To: Price, Melissa (MP) Subject: Cover letter and brief from Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee Workshop Dear Melissa Please find as attached a cover letter and briefing document sent on behalf of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee from the World Heritage Workshop that was hosted in Canberra on 29 October last year. If you would like any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind regards Sue Sue Sargent Chair – Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee s47F Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee s47F The Hon. Melissa Price MP Minister for the Environment PO Box 6022 House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 8 February 2019 Dear Minister Price On Monday 29 October the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee (AWHAC) met in Canberra to discuss a range of issues of relevance across Australia’s 19 properties. I am pleased to attach a summary of the key issues and actions discussed which included: s22 Adapting to Climate Change. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss the Committee’s recommendations and meet with you as Chair at your earliest possible convenience. I look forward to hearing back from you. Yours sincerely s47F Sue Sargent Chair Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee Attachment 1: Brief from the AWHAC World Heritage Workshop 29 October 2019 Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee Workshop October 2018 In October 2018, Chairs and representatives from thirteen Australian World Heritage properties were able to come together in Canberra for a one-day workshop and discuss a number of issues common to many of the properties. The workshop was the first face-to-face meeting of the Committee for 4 years and was a major opportunity for both the Chairs and departmental staff to network. The Committee is guided in its actions by the Australian Heritage Strategy 2015 and the majority of items on the agenda related to this document. Based on their discussions, the Committee would like to offer the following advice to the Minister for her consideration. s22 Ministerial Brief – Hon Melissa Price MP 1 s22 Adapting to Climate Change Climate Change has significant implications for Australia’s World Heritage properties. Already properties are recording changes in species distribution and abundance. While properties cannot address the global issue of climate change, actions can be (and must be) taken to manage the likely impacts on Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) pending a reduction in global emissions. The Garnaut Climate Change Review (2008), cautioned that “extreme weather events are likely to result in irreversible damage to geological, geomorphologic and physio-geographic heritage, whole values are expressed in UNESCO’s criteria (viii)….” Key recommendations were to implement comprehensive vulnerability assessments for each property; to reduce stress factors Ministerial Brief – Hon Melissa Price MP 2 to increase resilience (e.g. pests) and ex-situ measures such a seeds banks and living collections for high risk species (pdf link attached). Similarly, the World Heritage Committee is updating its climate change Policy Document, expressing continued concern about climate impacts on OUV. Considering this, measures to improve the resilience and conserve the integrity of our natural World Heritage Areas are a high priority for AWHAC and each of the individual properties. Collectively, our World Heritage Areas make a significant contribution to the environmental, recreation and economic services to Australia. In light of coverage of climate and other impacts on the Great Barrier Reef, it is timely for the terrestrial World Heritage properties to proactively develop a coordinated adaptation response. To undertake this, AWHAC suggests that the Australian Government support: • All properties to undertake a Climate-Change Vulnerability Index (CVI) or a similar process for identifying key impacting threats to OUV from climate change; • AWHAC members to continue to share knowledge and approaches to inform advice on climate change action; • Individual properties to look at opportunities to improve the resilience of OUV to reduce vulnerability to the effects of climate change; • Traditional Custodians to participate in adaptation planning; • AWHAC members as they continue to work with Departments, academic institutions and communities to explore responses, including technological innovations; and • Tangible responses for addressing the impacts of climate change in partnership with governments, land managers and science/researchers. AWHAC members acknowledged the support of the Department of the Environment and Energy and their respective State and Territory Governments that enabled the October 2018 AWHAC workshop to take place. Ministerial Brief – Hon Melissa Price MP 3 s22 From: s47F Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2019 4:31 PM To: s22, s47F 'Bruce Leaver' s22, s47F 'Di Walker' s22, s47F 'Graeme Potter' s22, s47F 'Ian Cashen' s22, s47F 'Jamie Shulmeister' s22, s47F 'John Long' s22, s47F 'Leslie Shirreffs' s22, s47F 'Mahri Koch' s47F 'Malcolm Wells' s22, s47F 'Nick Reid' s22, s47F Stephen Oxley s22 Peter Adams s22, s47F 'Simon Woodley' s22, s47F A statement from the Board of the Wet Tropics Management Authority regarding serious climate change impacts on the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Concerning new evidence has shown an accelerating decline in the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area’s unique rainforest animals as a result of climate change. The Board of the Wet Tropics Management Authority (the Board) has now become aware that, following the hottest summer ever recorded, some of the key species for which the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area was listed are at imminent risk of extinction. The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is the world’s oldest rainforest and land of the world’s oldest living culture. It is ranked by the International Union on the Conservation of Nature as the second most irreplaceable World Heritage Area on earth, and the sixth most irreplaceable protected area, largely because of its endemic species. It provides economic benefits to the region of more than $5.2 billion per annum, significantly through visitation and tourism which enables people to experience and understand this important tropical wonder. Climate change was identified as the most significant threat to the Wet Tropics in the 2015-16 State of the Wet Tropics Report on ancient, endemic, rare and threatened vertebrates of the Wet Tropics (the Report). Based on long term monitoring, the Report identified that the biodiversity of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area was declining with many rainforest species already reduced in both distribution and population size, largely as a result of climate change. Professor Steve Williams from the Centre for Tropical Environment and Sustainability Science at James Cook University, and co-author of the Report, has been monitoring rainforest biodiversity for over 20 years across the whole Wet Tropics region. The long-term monitoring of the rainforest vertebrates conducted by Prof Williams has observed a systematic decrease in the abundance and distribution of many Wet Tropics endemic species. Normally found at elevations over 600 metres, these cool adapted species have progressively moved to higher elevations, leaving alarming population declines at the lower elevation areas of their distribution. The lemuroid ringtail possum, a species for which the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is renowned, has been steadily declining now for more than a decade. Prof Williams’ recent monitoring has identified that the declines in possum and bird species have continued at a rate similar to the predictions made more than a decade ago and are now reaching alarming levels. If the trends continue, populations at sites that previously had the highest density of lemuroid ringtail possums in the region could become locally extinct as early as 2022. This species is currently not even classified as endangered. There are similar trends for species such as the Herbert River ringtail possum and green ringtail possum, as well as bird species such as the tooth-billed bowerbird—species which only occur in the Wet Tropics World Heritage and for which it was World Heritage listed. A model, using 400,000 data points collected over the past 10 years, predicted that the World Heritage Area could be facing the extinction of more than half of its endemic species by the end of this century. The latest rates of decline suggest that these extinctions are happening even sooner. Since its appointment in 2015, the Board made it a key priority to pursue climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies to protect the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. In June this year it will release a draft Climate Adaptation Plan, informed by the best available science. However, given the gravity of the new evidence, the Board feels that decisive action is needed now. The 2017 International Union on the Conservation of Nature Outlook Report on the Wet Tropics also cautioned that “The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area
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