The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) is based at Griffith University and supported by the Department of Climate Change. 

The aim is to generate the information needed by decision-makers in government and in vulnerable sectors and communities to manage the risks of climate change impacts.

The Emergency Management Network is one of eight NCCARF Networks and is focussed on adaptive responses required by the emergency management sector.

The rationale for a fire and emergency management network is that we depend on emergency management, broadly defined to include prevention etc., to deal with much of the risk from climatic events. to some extent we can argue that climate adaptation in Australia is primarily about emergency management.