Professor Roger Jones at Melbourne presentation on IPCC Working Group II report on Climate Impacts

I attended the presentation at Melbourne University on the IPCC 2014 Working Group II report on climate impacts on 10 April 2014. The event was presented by Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), together with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Monash Sustainability Institute, the Victoria University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, and RMIT University.

 

Master of ceremonies was Rob Gell AM – Environmental Entrepreneur and Chairman of UNESCO Western Port Biosphere, Chair of Wildlife Victoria, Advisory Board Member Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.

 

Presenters included:

Professor Roger Jones – Professorial Research Fellow at the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University, Coordinating Lead Author (Chapter 2: Foundations for decision making)

Professor Lesley Hughes – Ecologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Councillor, Climate Council, Lead Author (Chapter 25: Australasia)

 

Panel members:

Professor Jon Barnett – Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne University, Lead Author (Chapter 12: Human security)

Dr David Lobell – Associate Professor in Environmental Earth System Science and Associate Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Lead Author (Chapter 7: Food production systems and food security)

Dr Kathleen McInnes – Research Scientist, CSIRO, Lead Author (Chapter 5: Coastal systems and low-lying areas)

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