PM's bushfire response must include climate change: experts

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Experts warn the bushfire mitigation action forecast by Scott Morrison will require a step change in both public expenditure and policy.

Coping with the growing bushfire risks under climate change will require a vast increase in public spending and big reforms to policies that haven't properly accounted for the effects of climate change, experts warn.

"Building our national resilience means building our ability to resist, absorb, accommodate, recover and transform in the face of such events and this includes the effects of longer, hotter, dryer summers."Bushfire expert Professor Ross Bradstock said none of the previous 51 bushfire inquiries held since 1939 had investigated the effect of global warming fire risk, including the 2009 Black Saturday Royal Commission, which also "did not explicitly consider climate change".

The Prime Minister acknowledged the "risks of climate change " and said the bushfire response should include a Royal Commission focusing on an audit of recommendations from previous bushfire inquiries. He said governments would "need to make some decisions" about local hazard reduction burning to reduce fuel loads in forests, building codes for fire prone areas, and regulations for clearing native vegetation.

"We showed in a study 10 years ago that under climate change projections for 2050 the fire risk to lives and property would be elevated in the order of 15 per cent.

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