Coastal and Estuarine Risk Mitigation Program 22-23

Overview

The Australian Government has committed $50 million for the Coastal and Estuarine Risk Mitigation Program 22-23. The Program will help drive long term resilience and sustainability by delivering priority projects that mitigate the impact of disasters on communities and economies, targeting high priority locally and nationally significant coastal and estuarine disaster risk mitigation projects. The Program will contribute to a more disaster resilient and prepared Australia by providing funding for high priority coastal and estuarine disaster risk mitigation initiatives that create the following outcomes:  reducing the expected future eligible expenditure under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements 2018; reducing the exposure to coastal and estuarine hazards that influence insurance affordability for relevant households or local governments ; mitigating against risk that influences insurance affordability for relevant household or local government by the improvement or construction of flood mitigation infrastructure; sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems that reduces disaster risk, including through the use of green-blue infrastructure; regional, resilient and sustainable development, such as by protecting valued recreational and tourist areas, and improved health and well-being; improved public awareness and understanding of coastal hazards; improved capacity of coastal decision makers to actively reduce and avoid the creation of coastal hazard associated disaster risk; improved accountability and governance, locally and regionally to manage coastal hazard associated disaster risk; and inform future Australian Government actions to manage coastal hazard associated disaster risk.