Survey objectives
Listen and understand
We will listen to our licensees to help us understand:
- how progressed our licensees (and the sector more broadly) are at managing physical climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions at their facility
- actions our licensees are already taking to understand their exposure to these risks, and to identify and quantify their emissions
- actions our licensees are already taking to report on and manage these risks and emissions
- existing support that licensees have found helpful, any current challenges, and/or further opportunities for better managing these risks and emissions.
Inform and support
Information we get from the survey will help us to:
- build sector profiles
- identify where we might need to fill gaps in our licensees’ climate change knowledge and expertise
- understand the challenges our licensees are facing in managing climate risks and/or reducing emissions
- develop effective and meaningful guidance and requirements to support our licensees as they develop Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plans
- further develop our regulatory approaches, to complement reporting and other obligations that already exist at State and Commonwealth level, where possible
- identify where additional guidance and support is needed to help our licensees develop and implement effective risk management and emissions abatement opportunities.
We've also included supporting information within the survey to:
- help raise our licensees’ general awareness about:
- climate change matters
- publicly available guidance, programs, initiatives, and funding that may help our licensees to manage their climate risks and reduce their emissions
- ensure our licensees are aware of the EPA’s Climate Change Policy and Action Plan and the EPA’s evolving regulatory response.
Survey overview
The survey has 8 parts:
- Submitter details
- Operating details about the facility
- Climate hazards
- Local climate hazards, management challenges and commitments
- Climate risk management
- Identification and reporting of physical climate risks
- Adaptation measures to manage climate risks
- Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions
- Existing obligations to report emissions
- How emissions are quantified
- Identification of major emissions sources
- Fuel usage, electricity usage, if emissions are not quantified
- Management of greenhouse gas emissions
- Existing obligations and actions taken to manage emissions
- Emissions reduction plans and targets
- Implementation of emission reduction opportunities
- Additional Information (Optional)
- Other information relevant to management of climate risks and/or emissions
- Sign off and submission