Climate Planning was established in 2007. Our founder Donovan Burton realised that little was being done by governments and corporations to respond to the potential impacts of climate change. Since then Climate Planning has evolved into an international award-winning organisation that has undertaken over 250 climate change adaptation projects throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.
In 2018 Climate Planning was recognised by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) as an ‘Adaptation Champion’. The award was for the development of the Informed.CityTM climate change adaptation governance tool which has been used to gain insights for over 400 organisations.
Donovan Burton heads the Climate Planning team and is a leading climate change adaptation planner. Over the past 15 years Donovan has helped numerous organisations identify risks and opportunities associated with climate change.
Chloe Portanger is an Associate of Climate Planning and plays a key advisory role. Chloe now works for Informed.City as a senior Information Analytics Specialist. This means she explores the relationships between data and climate change risks and adaptation governance. Chloe has considerable expertise in managing and interpreting data to support informed-decision making.
Ian Edwards specialises in the socio-economic and financial implications of climate change adaptation. He is a chartered accountant with twenty years experience in national and international financial services. Ian has worked across a broad spectrum of the financial industry including public practice, investment banking and reinsurance.
Peter Best is the Director of Cindual Pty Ltd and an associate of Climate Planning. His career has focussed on evaluating the impacts of extreme events. This includes air pollution episodes, heatwave impacts on energy demand generation and distribution, influences of climate variability on extreme events, and forecasting of imminent risks.
