The program in detail
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| DAY 1 – Science / Tuesday 12 July 2011 | ||
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| Time | Content | Speaker(s) |
| 11.30am – 1.00pm | Registration | |
| 1.00pm – 1.30pm | Conference Opening | |
| 1.30pm – 2.30pm | Session 1 Strange Encounters behind the 2°C Firewall: The Global Picture |
Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) |
| 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Session 2 Climate risks, probabilities, and projections |
Professor Malte Meinshausen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) |
| 3.30pm – 4.00pm | Tea Break | |
| 4.00pm – 5.00pm | Session 3 Australian climate at four degrees or more of global warming |
Dr Penny Whetton (CSIRO) and Professor David Karoly (University of Melbourne) |
| 7.00pm – 8.30pm | 1st Keynote Address Climate Change: the Critical Decade |
Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) |
| DAY 2 – Impacts / Wednesday 13 July 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker(s) |
| 9.00am – 10.00am | Session 4 Australia at four degrees: Changes in extreme weather |
Dr Karl Braganza (Bureau of Meteorology) and Mr Kevin Hennessy (CSIRO) |
| 10.00am – 10.30am | Tea Break | |
| 10.30am – 11.30am | Session 5 Impacts Australian terrestrial biodiversity over four degrees |
Professor Lesley Hughes (Macquarie University) |
| 11.30am – 12.30pm | Session 6 Impacts In hot water: The future of Australia’s marine resources in a warm, acid ocean |
Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg (University of Queensland) |
| 12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm – 2.30pm | Session 7 Impacts Agriculture in an even more sunburnt country |
Dr Mark Howden (CSIRO) |
| 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Session 8 Impacts Hot in the City: planning for climate impacts in urban Australia Cool change? How various Australian cities can engage with climate issues |
Professor Jan McDonald (University of Tasmania) Associate Professor Phil McManus (University of Sydney) |
| 3.30pm – 4.00pm | Tea break | |
| 4.00pm – 5.00pm | Session 9 Impacts 2+2 = 6: Future disease patterns in Australia will not be a simple extrapolation of current trends |
Professor Tony McMichael (Australian National University) |
| 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Session 10 Impacts Climate Change in a Complex World: Compounding Crises |
Professor Will Steffen (Australian National University) and Professor Dave Griggs (Monash University) |
| 7.00pm – 8.15pm | 2nd Keynote Address Adaptation and its Limits |
Professor Ross Garnaut (University of Melbourne) |
| DAY 3 – Possibilities / Thursday 14 July 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Content | Speaker(s) |
| 8.30am – 9.30am | Session 11 Science and Policy: Australia’s Carbon Tax |
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Hon. Greg Combet, MP |
| 9.30am – 10.30am | Session 12 Climate Change in Australia: Social and Economic Impacts and Opportunities |
Professor Ross Garnaut (University of Melbourne), Tony Westmore (ACOSS), Grant Belchamber (ACTU) |
| 10.30am – 11.00pm | Tea break |
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| 11.00am – 12.00pm | Session 13 No Island is an Island: Security in a Four Degree World Challenges and opportunities for adaptation to climate change in our region |
Associate Professor Peter Christoff and Professor Robyn Eckersley (University of Melbourne) Andrew Hewett (Oxfam Australia) |
| 12.00pm – 1.00pm | Session 14 Can We Successfully Adapt to 4 degrees of Warming? Yes, No, and Maybe |
Professor Jean Palutikof (Griffith University) and Professor Jon Barnett (University of Melbourne) |
| 1.00pm – 2.00pm | Lunch |
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| 2.00pm – 3.15pm | Session 15 Mitigation – Can we? |
Tony Wood (Grattan Institute) Anna Skarbek (ClimateWorks) Peter Cosier (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists) |
| 3.15pm – 3.45pm | Tea break |
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| 3.45pm – 5.00pm | Session 16 Barriers, opportunities and policy responses |
Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) Professor Ross Garnaut (University of Melbourne) Associate Professor Peter Christoff (University of Melbourne) |
| 5.15pm | Conference close | |
In hot water: The future of Australia’s marine resources in a warm, acid ocean
