Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan - Final report of the National Bushfire and Climate Summit 2020

You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the copyright material so long as you attribute Emergency Leaders for Climate Action and the Climate Council of Australia Ltd and the authors in the following manner: Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan: Final report of the National Bushfire and Climate Summit 2020. [...] The National Bushfire and Climate Summit Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA), a The National Bushfire and Climate Summit brought group of 33 former Australian fire and emergency together hundreds of participants from across the service leaders, from every state and territory, warned country, and the world, to share their experiences, of the unfolding conditions back in April 2019. [...] The Federal, State and Territory Governments and expanding Indigenous-led fire knowledge should increase support to people and and practice and supporting Indigenous communities to build resilience, prepare, communities with climate change, bushfire and respond and recover from bushfires. [...] The Federal Government should ensure A range of strategies including but not limited to expansion of and investment in Indigenous the following need to be reviewed and where fire management and existing fire and land appropriate, implemented and resourced: management workforces and budgets (forest and national parks agencies) to: a. [...] Support the establishment of a national disaster management agency, or enhancement of Emergency Management Australia, tasked with developing national disaster and emergency management policy and standards, helping to manage strategic national firefighting assets, helping to coordinate the sharing of resources between states and territories and internationally, and with the authority to coordinate.