Heatwave Resilience: Keeping Our Cool Project
HEATWAVE RESILIENCE: KEEPING OUR COOL PROJECT
The Keeping Our Cool Toolkit equips local councils and organisations to increase community awareness about heatwaves, health risks, and measures to mitigate risks for humans, animals, and wildlife.
In Far North Queensland, increased heatwave events coupled with high humidity pose significant health risks to communities, animals, and ecosystems. Responding to this growing threat, the Climate Resilience Technical Committee and regional experts collaborated to create an awareness toolkit. Tailored for vulnerable communities in the far north, the toolkit draws from coronial data pinpointing at-risk cohorts in the area, offering a strategic approach to building resilience.
To obtain a copy of the Keeping Our Cool Toolkit, please email the FNQROC Regional Climate Resilience Coordinator .
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Keeping Our Cool Toolkit Items |
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A short guide explaining how to implement a Keeping Our Cool campaign |
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Individual persona factsheets with information on vulnerable cohorts. Recommend using the personas to run workshops. |
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These key messages are to inspire and be incorporated into the development of further communication materials that support the campaign. |
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Includes five social media tiles, a website banner, an email signature, and an infographic poster. In PDF and JPEG format. |
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Checklist for households to use in preparation for heatwave events. PDF format. |
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An example of content that can be used on the Council’s webpage. |
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An example of various social media posts for each of the three stages: Plan & Prepare, Respond and Recover. |
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Example of content for direct email to subscribers/vulnerable cohorts for stages: Prepare and Respond. |
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Example content for text message alerts to vulnerable cohorts during each of the three stages: Prepare, Respond and Recover. |
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Design elements of artwork that can be used to create additional design elements. |
Contact
For further information, please contact the Regional Climate Resilience Coordinator