What is Australia Risking? Future Impacts of Climate Change

On 15 September the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, released Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment.

This event, convened by the Climate Communications Australia and hosted by The Royal Society of Victoria, offers a unique chance to discuss the report with Risk Assessment experts. The event will focus on how climate change will affect Australia, and the scenarios for the 'cascading, compounding and concurrent disasters' that are emerging across the country.  The social and developmental implications of these impacts for future generations will be discussed, along with what policies are needed to adapt to and mitigate the risks.

Come along for your chance to question Australia’s leading climate impact analysts, including:

Dr Andrew Watkins is a climate scientist in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University. He was previously at the Australian Climate Service, where he was a Lead Author of the National Climate Risk Assessment. For over 10 years he was the Head of Climate Prediction at the Bureau of Meteorology. Andrew is a Research Fellow at Climate Communications Australia.

Dr Richard Denniss is the Executive Director of The Australia Institute and is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and has spent the last twenty years moving between policy-focused roles in academia, federal politics and think-tanks. He was also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle and former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. He is a regular contributor to The Monthly and the author of several books including: Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?

Professor Lucas Walsh is director of the Monash Centre for Youth Policy & Education Practice (CYPEP) within the Faculty of Education at Monash University and was a member of the National Climate Risk Assessment Expert Advisory Committee.

The event will be facilitated by Emma Coath, CEO, The Royal Society of Victoria.

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