ANU Climate Update 2019 – Sydney
February 4, 2019
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Climate Update 2019 – Sydney will present an overview of how our climate is changing and how we are responding to these changes in Australia and around the world. You’ll hear from experts, practitioners and leading commentators, including from UTS and the Australian National University (ANU).
Part 1 will summarise the latest climate research, including a snapshot of newly released data on how our climate changed in 2018. Part 2 will discuss climate action, its economic opportunities and risks and options for climate adaptation.
Part 1 – State of the Climate
Global Climate Overview 2018 – Prof Mark Howden, Director, ANU Climate Change Institute
Audience Q&A
Part 2 – Responding to Climate Change
Global economic gains from complying with Paris Climate Agreement – Prof Tom Kompas, ANU & University of Melbourne
Climate risk & opportunities: regulatory requirements around climate change – Ms Cathie Armour, Commissioner, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Helping communities adapt to climate change – Assoc Prof Brent Jacobs, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS
Audience Q&A
The event is a collaboration between the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS and the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute. It is a part of a series of Climate Update events organised by the Climate Change Institute, taking place in Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney.
Please only register if you genuinely intend to come to this event. If you find out later that you’re unable to attend, please log in and cancel your tickets or you can email us at climate@anu.edu.au.
Collaborative Theatre, Room 405 is on the ground floor of the building. You can access the theatre either via the building entrance on the corner of Broadway and Jones St and then take the escalators down one floor. Or enter the building via the corner of Broadway and Wattle St, which is on the same level as the theatre.
Transport options: 5 minute’s walk from Central Station