- The conference focused on the latest climate change research and its impacts, as well as communication, policy and economics issues.
- Presenters discussed how climate change is already negatively impacting Pacific Islands and agriculture in Australia.
- Barriers to effective climate policy include short-term decision making, uncertainty around scientific data, and the public good problem where benefits of climate action are diffuse.
- Improving communication and engagement between scientists, policymakers, business and the public was a major theme to help address these barriers.
Critical issues in India , understanding the difference between conventional behavior vs Sustainable behavior , sustainable development , what are the issues ,which media should focus on? ,
Critical issues in India , understanding the difference between conventional behavior vs Sustainable behavior , sustainable development , what are the issues ,which media should focus on? ,
This presentation gathers the results from Sitra's study on scientific support for sustainable development practices, written by Mr Roope Kaaronen in October 2016.
Climate Change - An Approach to a One-Australia PolicyRichard Hodge
Climate change is the world\'s biggest political problem, and there is no framework to deal with it.
This proposal examines how a \'systems\' approach can develop a framework for action based on inclusive (not divisive) consideration of all issues.
This presentation is an introduction to the Disaster Risk Reduction Ambassador Curriculum. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation is given by Katie Skakel, Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPHwnwVupA
this is very interesting and it drives common people towards the real emerging environmental problems in 21st century. they would be surprised to see none of the top 5 problems belong to scientific issues.
Sustainable Development: An IntroductionPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will
a) learn about the dimensions of sustainable development
b) learn through an example as to how the interdependent issues of development contribute toward achieving sustainable development
Maggie Ibrahim: Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach: An OverviewSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Implementation of Environmental Justice: Through Dispute SettlementPreeti Sikder
Learning Objective: After completing this lesson students will -
a) be aware about the roles of environmental courts and tribunals in implementation of environmental justice
b) be able to argue in favour of establishment of ECTs
c) learn about the major features of Environmental Court Act, 2010
d) learn about the practicalities within Environmental Courts of Bangladesh
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
Risk Communication For Adapting To Climate Changeadubey2
Communicate risk of not adapting to climate change to policy makers and vulnerable community
To influence policy makers and community for modifying policies related to agriculture and water resources
The focus was on Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh covering 12 villages
International commitments in response to the need to avoid climate change are now clear, and these commitments imply significant and potentially rapid changes in emissions, including in Australia. This will have implications for many sectors.
The science of probabilistic impacts of climate change are advancing rapidly and allows directors and their advisors to obtain a far more granular view of likely exposure than has ever been possible before.
This technological development in itself poses a risk and an opportunity to directors, who can either exploit or ignore new sources of data. Competitors and other external parties such as investors and researchers may be able to access a far more granular risk data on a third party’s physical assets.
There is now a substantial and rapidly growing body of research and expertise on the material financial implications of climate change – through direct impacts, transition measures, and related pathways including legal liability risk and technological disruption.
Financial actors and authorities are now voicing an expectation for increasingly clear disclosure of climate risks. This has accelerated rapidly in the past 12 to 18 months and is continuing to evolve today, both in Australia and among international markets.
This presentation gathers the results from Sitra's study on scientific support for sustainable development practices, written by Mr Roope Kaaronen in October 2016.
Climate Change - An Approach to a One-Australia PolicyRichard Hodge
Climate change is the world\'s biggest political problem, and there is no framework to deal with it.
This proposal examines how a \'systems\' approach can develop a framework for action based on inclusive (not divisive) consideration of all issues.
This presentation is an introduction to the Disaster Risk Reduction Ambassador Curriculum. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation is given by Katie Skakel, Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPHwnwVupA
this is very interesting and it drives common people towards the real emerging environmental problems in 21st century. they would be surprised to see none of the top 5 problems belong to scientific issues.
Sustainable Development: An IntroductionPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will
a) learn about the dimensions of sustainable development
b) learn through an example as to how the interdependent issues of development contribute toward achieving sustainable development
Maggie Ibrahim: Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach: An OverviewSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Implementation of Environmental Justice: Through Dispute SettlementPreeti Sikder
Learning Objective: After completing this lesson students will -
a) be aware about the roles of environmental courts and tribunals in implementation of environmental justice
b) be able to argue in favour of establishment of ECTs
c) learn about the major features of Environmental Court Act, 2010
d) learn about the practicalities within Environmental Courts of Bangladesh
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
Risk Communication For Adapting To Climate Changeadubey2
Communicate risk of not adapting to climate change to policy makers and vulnerable community
To influence policy makers and community for modifying policies related to agriculture and water resources
The focus was on Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh covering 12 villages
International commitments in response to the need to avoid climate change are now clear, and these commitments imply significant and potentially rapid changes in emissions, including in Australia. This will have implications for many sectors.
The science of probabilistic impacts of climate change are advancing rapidly and allows directors and their advisors to obtain a far more granular view of likely exposure than has ever been possible before.
This technological development in itself poses a risk and an opportunity to directors, who can either exploit or ignore new sources of data. Competitors and other external parties such as investors and researchers may be able to access a far more granular risk data on a third party’s physical assets.
There is now a substantial and rapidly growing body of research and expertise on the material financial implications of climate change – through direct impacts, transition measures, and related pathways including legal liability risk and technological disruption.
Financial actors and authorities are now voicing an expectation for increasingly clear disclosure of climate risks. This has accelerated rapidly in the past 12 to 18 months and is continuing to evolve today, both in Australia and among international markets.
Behavioural Meetup: "Think global, act local? Public engagement with climate ...Prime Decision
Our spreaker for the February 2016 Behavioural Meetup in Bristol was Prof. Lorraine Whitemarsh from the University of Cardiff.
Despite scientific consensus about the reality and severity of climate change, the public appears to show relatively little concern about the issue and to be taking few actions to tackle it. In this talk, we will discuss what influences public perceptions and how they may be shaped by communication. Recent survey and interview data, and findings from psychological experiments will be used to expose the strong ideological and social influences on public attitudes to climate change. Research will also be presented on low-carbon lifestyles, along with insights into fostering behaviour change, including new research to achieve behavioural ‘spillover’ (i.e., when changing one behaviour leads to further behavioural changes).
Behavioural Meetup: Perceptions of and behavioural responses to climate change.Poppy Mulvaney PhD
Our February Behavioural Meetup featured Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh from the University of Cardiff:
Despite scientific consensus about the reality and severity of climate change, the public appears to show relatively little concern about the issue and to be taking few actions to tackle it. In this talk, we will discuss what influences public perceptions and how they may be shaped by communication. Recent survey and interview data, and findings from psychological experiments will be used to expose the strong ideological and social influences on public attitudes to climate change. Research will also be presented on low-carbon lifestyles, along with insights into fostering behaviour change, including new research to achieve behavioural ‘spillover’ (i.e., when changing one behaviour leads to further behavioural changes).
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environmentFERMA
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environment.
The recently published Global Risks 2014 report of the World Economic Forum identifies environmental risks as highest in terms of impact and likelihood. Those risks include both natural disasters, such as earthquakes and geomagnetic storms, and man-made risks such as
collapsing ecosystems, freshwater shortages, nuclear accidents and failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Failure of climate change mitigation and
adaptation is the fifth top risk concern according to
multi-stakeholders communities (see figure beside).
Climate change is evidence proven and this paper doesn’t intend to explore the causes. However, one can state that climate change is a systemic problem – it is one that touches all the others. As such by its systemic nature, it can cause breakdowns of entire systems and not only a component part. (
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
This toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects. It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organisations, regional and international organisations who are involved in managing and implementing climate change programmes.
While many of us are aware that gender does matter for sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation, we may not know clearly how it matters, and what tools are available that can help to assess how it matters. Knowing is also not enough: we must apply this knowledge in a practical way when we design and implement activities, and ensure that we are capturing useful and important information through our monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
This toolkit provides advice at a practical level, to address these needs. The principles and practices proposed in this toolkit are based on many decades of experience in the integration of a gender perspective in sustainable development, natural resources management and disaster preparedness. The toolkit is divided into three parts. This introductory module explains why gender is a critical consideration in climate change programmes, projects and strategies, and clarifies some common misconceptions. Module 2 focuses on the links between gender and climate change in specific sectors (e.g. food security, water and energy); and uses sector-relevant case studies to explain how to take gender into consideration.
It also includes a module on disaster risk reduction recognising that these interventions should be factored into all climate change adaptation programmes and projects. These sector chapters can also be used as stand-alone documents for practitioners to guide their analysis in a specific sector. Module 3 is the ‘how-to’ section and will take you through the different phases of a typical climate change programme/project cycle, identifying potential entry-points for integrating gender in each phase and also includes a generic gender checklist that may be applied to programmes and projects. This toolkit will not make you a gender expert! However, it provides guidance along with links to other resources that can help strengthen your knowledge about gender and climate change.
1. GREENHOUSE 2015
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CLIMATE
CHANGE CONFERENCE,
HOBART 2015
SUMMARY AND EXTRACTION OF POLICY & COMMUNICATIONS THEMES
Veryan Hann BSc(Hons), PGDipEnergy &Env, DipMgmt, MPP.
2. “Is 2C too much?
We are 65% the way
there. “
Nathan Bindoff, IPCC
AR5, WG1
3. Conference focus
• Air, land and sea observations: the latest
research
• Science informing impacts and adaptation
• Climate modelling and projections
• Climate variability and extreme events
• Communication, policy and economics.
Key supporters: Australian & Tasmanian
governments, CSIRO & BoM.
This presentation extracts the
policy and communication
themes.
4. At the Science – Policy Interface
Prof Andrew Holmes – the President of the Australian Academy of
Science [partial role to advise governance in climate change]
Communication & engagement problem – science no longer high-level
Academy president and Prime Minister have in times past been in
direct contact. Not anymore. [conduct science/ quality control/engage
w public/help make decisions.
The goal of the academy is to promote: rational decisions, sustainable,
longer term, in a politicised environment.
5. Chloe Lucas
Science – social ID/ world views/ politics
Assess risk based on the above.
This study assess risk based on 30% of disengaged ppl. => increased partisanship.
Social experience – look at the espistomological foundations of our beliefs.
Openness to change <-> self transcendence
Values, conservation and self enhancement.
Climate concern by value. Openness to change and self T -> + CC view
Self enhancement and conservation -> - CC view
Self T = high level of concern
- Women, high lvl of education, high lvl of efficacy, involved in govt/community of pushed
- Low lvl trust in govt.
Conservatives (low lvl of concern)
- Old, low lvl education, high media consumption, feel less safe, high lvl concern about refugees,
more trust in govt, don’t feel like they have any effect wrt participating in govt, trust in top down,
security more important, safety, fear.
Self-enhancing ambivalent to CC
- Young men, 0 children, low lvl concern about immigrations, high use of media, high value of
hedonism.
Openness to change - -slightly more concerned about CC
- Male, uni educated , 50-64 yrs, powerful, well networked, very high consumption of all types of
media.
Opinion of soln: Reduce partisan pressures in debate through strengthening deliberative democracy
Conference Stats reflect commitment in Australia:
1/3 size of Adelaide 2013 , and 1/6 size of Perth 2009. Mainly
CSIRO/BOM= aim to provide highest quality science guidance –
where comment on policy = trouble. NRM projections.
However, part of role is communicating into government.
An example of other Science based issues:
Eric Oliver – IMAS UTAS
Marine CC – warming at unprecedented rate with uneven
distribution. Tasman sea is a hot spot. Impact on fisheries.
Issues with data, issues with understanding , issues with
communications, issue with trust because scientists should not
be seen to direct policy making.
Impacts: Dairy feels impacts of CC significantly already –rye
grass has a threshold of 27C but it is prime feed for milk. If
above that threshold, other methods, milk of poorer quality, or
migrate.
6. Impacts of Climate Change being experienced by Pacific Islands already.
Presentation by Bipen Prakash Fiji Meteorological service. Senior scientific officer
(climate)
Pacific most vulnerable to SLR and CC. cyclone Ivan and floods from 2012,
worst in Fiji’s history.
Climate Change relocation project after 2012. From coast to highlands. In
second largest Is.
2 communities relocated since then.
Republic of Fiji now has National Climate Change strategy.
Downscaling asked for because adaptation is more local in scale
[modelling/RCMs/forecasting ability]
Adaptation required even if 2C met.
For Tasmania: Application of hazard maps through social networking
Photo taken at Midway Point Tasmania 4th Nov 2015
7. Climate Policy problems [adapted from Helen Cleugh, CSIRO]
Unprecedented global effort with IPCC the role of GHG on climate.
Problem: Time scales – decisions devalued at long time scales. Need
decadal prediction for infrastructure planning. ENZO intensity/
climate processes.
Objective: Need to create a value proposition – keys are quality,
societally relevant, trust.
Alignment: Economic/ business perspective: Current level of
investment climate change adaption is a risk.
8. Financial risks to climate change
Dr Nick Wood – disconnect between climate risks to knowledge
on company boards.
Risk – can lead to negligence. Insurance = risk sharing
mechanism. Insurance -> governance can not deal with
diversification of risk severity and frequency.
2011 worldwide - US$370B loss –insurance picked up 1/3 . In
Australia 2011 - =$36 B (Qld floods) insurance picked up half
($15B). In Australia, 1998 –couldn’t get flood insurance.
The solution is to approach at high level and get business to
understand that climate change risk can lead to negligent.
9. Barriers to policy implementation
Decision timeframe: A focus on short term incrementalism rather than sector specific longer term solutions.
Uncertainty and the unknown in decision making: from science point of view – a need for more data, and $ is an
issue [observations vs proxy data]. There is a conflict here between a need for data and making decisions under
uncertainty. However; other areas already do this: eg. Insurance industry, agriculture.
Example of knowledge uncertainty: Dr Margaret Wienecke. Sea Birds, Antarctic mega fauna are highly
vulnerable to climate change.
Estimates are vague – remoteness, estimates. Level of resilience unknown. What are the important
variables? Unprecedented change. Unexplored – effect of micro plastics. Unexplored effects.
Public good problem: Governments are not incentivised ‘at scale’ to invest in climate change. Public good – and
diffuse public benefit are hard to harness, with low trust. Small countries = small internalised benefit on CC
investment compared to large countries. Scale is an issue – Big guys lead.
Trust: One practical solution comes from ‘trust’ = a sense of ownership through engagement at the data
formulation stage with BoM et al.
10. Presentation by Greg Hunt MP
Australian model of ems reduction taken up by the UN and world bank.
Reverse auction- targeting.
Encourages long term contracts – competitive environment- climate mitigation market.
380MtCO2 mitigation in next 10 yrs.
RET (10yrs ahead)- 23.5% RE. 50Mt double amount of large scale RE
(do in 5yrs what has been done in 15).
Vehicle ems STDs/codes to improve.
Combining AER/ARENA/CEFC- coordinating effect.
and new climate office federally.
11. Overall conference learnings: “Communication is as important as the science”
During the conference time the $250M ice breaker was announced,
A new national science online education program NOVA and ‘science by doing’
Way ahead:
- Enhancing collaboration
- Education / awareness raising
- Scientists to keep out of policy making and keep to their own work –
trust is at stake – impartiality is important
- Bottom up governance and network governance is becoming increasingly important
- Lack of scientific understanding leads to mistrust – ie the definition of uncertainty –
it does not mean untrustworthy data - it is a statistical way to categorise data
The misunderstanding of ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ – weather may have 20C change in a day
This is taken into account in 30year average which is the climate-
here a 1.5C deviation from the mean is very significant.
Push back from Industry is expected. The top 100 companies world wide have a number of resource
and energy companies. Business can adapt. We will always need metallurgical coal (reductant for metals)
but burning coal for heat and electricity is archaic.
That it is contentious means it is relevant to society, and important.