For
NSW Office of Climate Change
In
2022
The Office of Energy & Climate Change leads NSW in responding to the challenges of a rapidly changing climate.
Co-designing with citizens, policymakers and businesses, we prototyped a tool that empowers anyone to confidently plant climate-adjusted seeds. Enabling today’s actions to preserve tomorrow’s environment, and ensure survival of our diverse ecosystems.
At the core of the product was a combination dataset that could predict the suitability of seeds being planted at a revegetation site.
When you revegetate, you want to ensure you have a genetic diversity in your seed and sapling choices to maximise chances of success.
In the new world of climate change, this now includes climate-adapted genetic diversity.
You need seeds from plants of that species that have adapted to survive in hotter climates hundreds of kilometres away.
Our tool let people navigate this data for their revegetation site and determine where to source seeds for climate-adapted genetic diversity and whether a species is even suitable.
learning
Revegetation is difficult enough, and no government website telling you how to change your genetric seed diversity will help. Nurseries and tree planting organisations are more concerned about a basic survival rate and propogation. Environmental data services in government should be available to help without dictation, and focus their efforts on customisation to make the outputs as believable and approachable as possible.
with
Claudette Yazbek, Product Manager
Simon Hopkins, Research
Isobel Cummings, SME