Carbon sequestration & biodiversity: valuing & managing carbon-rich systems
2020-10-06 15:30 - 17:00 UTC | Online Webinar
Integrating biodiversity and carbon sequestration in carbon accounting to build sustainable and resilient biodiverse carbon sinks
International and national climate mitigation policies have seen a growing interest in approaches to carbon accounting and investments in carbon-rich systems. Increasingly this interest includes a focus on the importance of carbon stored in biodiverse systems, as well as the value of integrating biodiversity and other values into new carbon investments.
Our speakers will discuss the concept of ‘green’ and ‘blue’ carbon accounting in biodiverse systems and explore new approaches to integrating biodiversity, social and cultural values with carbon accounting. They will also examine the impacts of the 2019-20 fire season on Australia’s carbon budget, how carbon stocks are impacted by a changing climate, and strategies for ensuring biodiverse carbon sinks are sustainable and resilient to future shocks.
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Building climate resilience through natural habitats
2020-09-01 15:30 - 17:00
Learn how biodiversity and ecosystem strategies can help manage and abate impacts from climate extremes.
Climate projections suggest that climate extremes and natural disasters are likely to become more frequent and/or intense in the coming decades. These effects could damage human infrastructure and threaten ecosystems, biodiversity, and habitation. Building resilience in our ecosystems and biodiversity can help mitigate climate extremes.

Our speakers will discuss the consequences of climate extremes on biodiversity, the use of natural assets and habitats to protect natural ecosystems, and how we can build resilience in our habitats to buffer against climate extremes.
Speakers:

John Clarke – Research Team Leader, CSIRO
Nicki Michell – Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia and NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub
Rebecca Morris – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Georgia Garrard – Senior Lecturer, RMIT

Facilitators:

Sonia Bluhm – Knowlege Broker, NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub
Rachel Morgain – Knowlege Broker, NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub

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Building partnerships for robust climate risk assessments: why, what, how?
2020-07-21 11:30 - 12:30
Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub science webinar: Building partnerships for robust climate risk assessments: why, what, how and when?

About this Event

Climate change information and services are increasingly recognised as important inputs into risk assessments, policy processes, planning and management strategies and financial disclosures by decision makers across Australian sectors including ecosystem management, agriculture and horticulture, water resource and energy management and the financial services sector.
The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub has been working with its stakeholders to better understand their climate information needs. Feedback from our stakeholders indicates that there is still a lot of stakeholder uncertainty about how the climate system works, how the climate is changing and what climate change projections actually tell us. This means that existing climate change information and tools are not being readily accessed, understood and applied to inform decision and policy making.
The Hub is therefore developing a climate change information toolkit to build both understanding of climate change and capability for using climate change information for decision making. The toolkit provides stakeholders with a better understanding of the climate system and the confidence to find and use climate change information to inform decisions. The development of the toolkit is being informed by participant feedback from pilot workshops around the country, with over ten workshops held with various stakeholder groups to date.
In this webinar, ESCC Hub leader Professor David Karoly will use the toolkit developed by the Hub to provide an overview of why and what climate change information can be used for informing robust risk and impact assessments. David will also discuss how and when to use climate information in decision making, using a number of current Hub case studies and engagements as examples.
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Victorian Climate Projections 2019 – findings and tips for interpreting
2020-06-26 13:00 - 14:00
DELWP Climate science webinars
Want to understand more about the climate change information available for Victoria? How has the climate already changed? What might Victoria’s climate be like in 2050 and beyond? Where do you even start in looking for this information?
DELWP is running two webinars to give an overview of the information from Victoria’s Climate Science Report 2019 and the local-scale Victorian Climate Projections 2019, as well as guidance on understanding and using the information. Link to other event here.
Webinar 2: Victorian Climate Projections 2019 – findings and tips for interpreting
Date: 1-2pm, Friday 26 June 2020
This webinar will cover the following topics;

What do the projections say for Victoria?
What are the benefits of local-scale climate data?
How to understand and work with the different sources of uncertainty in projections
Top tips to interpret the projections correctly

This webinar will have lots of time for Q&A with DELWP and CSIRO scientists.
There’s no need to register for this event, just save the time in your calendar and click here to join the webinar.

Climate change in Victoria – past, present and future
2020-06-24 13:00 - 14:00
DELWP Climate science webinars
Want to understand more about the climate change information available for Victoria? How has the climate already changed? What might Victoria’s climate be like in 2050 and beyond? Where do you even start in looking for this information?
DELWP is running two webinars to give an overview of the information from Victoria’s Climate Science Report 2019 and the local-scale Victorian Climate Projections 2019, as well as guidance on understanding and using the information. Link to other event here.
Climate change in Victoria – past, present and future
Victoria’s climate has already changed, and will continue to change according to future climate projections.
This webinar will help guide you through the resources available and using the decision tree to find what you need. Some of the resources available include Victoria’s Climate Science Report 2019, Regional information: Victorian Climate Projections 2019 Regional reports, data tables, Communicating Climate Change, and Planning for uncertainty.
There will be a lot of time for Q&A with the DELWP project team should you have any more questions.
No need to register, just save the time 1pm on Wednesday 24th June in your calendar and click here to join the webinar.
