Climate resilience and Victoria’s homes

All homes should be safe and should be affordable to run at healthy indoor temperatures. However, Victoria’s housing stock is not equipped to protect vulnerable households in conditions of extreme heat. The growing frequency and intensity of heatwaves threatens to have major impacts on the health and wellbeing of Victorians, with effects disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable households.

Renews’s submission to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Climate Resilience argues that Victoria must take action now to address the vulnerability of Victoria’s homes to the growing threat of extreme heatwave conditions. Sustained policy measures are required to ensure the upgrading of Victorian homes for energy efficiency and climate resilience.

Read the full submission here.