This conference focuses on the potential consequences of present domestic and international climate policy for Australian communities, policy makers and decision makers in government and industry.

FOUR DEGREES OR MORE? will look at the barriers and opportunities for averting what otherwise seems like a catastrophic outcome for this continent. It seeks to initiate a re-evaluation, in Australia, of the effort necessary to avoid extreme climate change by clarifying the likely social, economic, ecological and political costs of such warming.

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KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE

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Professor Han Joachim Schellnhuber
Potsdam University, Germany
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Chair of the German Government’s Advisory Council on Global Change and the Chief Government Advisor on Climate and Related Issues during Germany’s EU Council Presidency and G8 Presidency; Director of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

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Professor Ross Garnaut
University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics, The University of Melbourne; Independent adviser to Multi-Party Climate Change Committee; Author of Garnaut Climate Change Review for the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments of Australia, and its Update for the Commonwealth Government in 2011.

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Professor Will Steffen
Australian National University
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Executive Director, ANU Climate Change Institute; Scientific adviser to Multi-Party Climate Change Committee; Climate Commissioner, former Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden.