The program at a glance
Day 1 examines the science around global warming at four degrees or more.
| DAY 1 – Science / Tuesday 12 July 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker |
| 1.30pm | Strange Encounters behind the 2°C Firewall: The Global Picture | Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber |
| 2.30pm | Climate risks, probabilities, and projections | Professor Malte Meinshausen |
| 4.00pm | Australian climate at four degrees or more of global warming | Dr Penny Whetton, Professor David Karoly |
| 7.00pm | 1st Keynote Address: Climate Change: The Critical Decade | Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber |
Day 2 assesses the impacts of warming of four degrees or more on Australian ecosystems,industries & society.
| DAY 2 – Impacts / Wednesday 13 July 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker |
| 9.00am | Impacts – extreme events | Dr Karl Braganza, Dr Kevin Hennessy |
| 10.30am | Impacts – Terrestrial ecosystems | Professor Lesley Hughes |
| 11.30am | Impacts – Oceans and marine ecosystems | Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg |
| 1.30pm | Impacts – Agriculture | Dr Mark Howden |
| 2.30pm | Impacts – Cities and planning | Professor Jan McDonald, Associate Professor Phil McManus |
| 4.00pm | Impacts – Health | Professor Tony McMichael |
| 5.00pm | Impacts – Compounding crises | Professor Will Steffen, Professor Dave Griggs |
| 7.00pm | 2nd Keynote Address: Adaptation and its Limits | Professor Ross Garnaut |
Day 3 looks at implications for economic and social welfare, and the prospects and limits for mitigation and adaptation policies to help us avoid these outcomes.
| DAY 3 – Options and Possibilities / Thursday 14 July 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker |
| 8.30am | Science & Policy: Australia’s Carbon Tax | The Hon. Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency |
| 9.30am | Climate Change in Australia: Social and Economic Impacts and Opportunities | Professor Ross Garnaut |
| 11.00am | Climate security, development and our region | Professor Robyn Eckersley, Andrew Hewett |
| 12.00pm | Adaptation – Can we? | Professor Jean Palutikof and Professor Jon Barnett |
| 2.00pm | Mitigation – Can we? | Tony Wood, Anna Skarbek, Peter Cosier |
| 4.00pm | Barriers, opportunities and policy responses | Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Professor Ross Garnaut, Associate Professor Peter Christoff |
| 5.15pm | Conference closes | |
