Climate change poses unique challenges for the event industry, yet the industry and its key stakeholders have been slow to acknowledge the need to adapt. In Australia, local governments play an important role in event and climate change policy making. This research assessed local government event and climate policy integration in Queensland, Australia, as the state seeks to grow its visitor economy ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Policies from seven local governments were analysed. We found no evidence of policy integration. While local governments envisioned using events for public engagement to increase climate literacy, the event industry appeared overlooked as a necessary site for adaptation. Yet opportunities to create connections between these misaligned policy domains were evident. Findings suggest local governments can support event adaptation through mainstreaming of climate concerns across event-related policy areas, including economic development and community resilience.