Terrestrial Biodiversity and climate change adaptation in the ACT - Management and Policy
Wednesday, 8th December 2010,
CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra
Who should come: management agencies, policy makers, NGO’s, state/local government and any interested parties
| Time | Program | Speaker | Presentations |
| 8:30 | Welcome and what we hope to achieve today. | ||
| Morning session: Presentations - from the researchers and the stakeholders | |||
| 9:10 | National overview on Climate Change adaptation and terrestrial biodiversity and the National Adaptation Research Plan | Prof. Stephen Williams |   |
| 9:50 | Terrestrial Biodiversity network –what you can get out of it, and discussion | Dr. Yvette Williams | |
| 9:50 | Discussion | ||
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10:00 |
What are the key issues for ACT for climate change adaptation and decision tools for adaptation | Dr. Trevor Booth | |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | The science of biodiversity adaptation Presentations by the researchers: |
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| Biodiversity/NRM adaptation priorities for the ACT region | Bob Webb | |
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| Climate change and drought refugia | Brendan Mackey (ANU) | |
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| 11:30 | Discussion | ||
| 11:45 | How are managers and policy-makers dealing with climate change adaptation for biodiversity and what are the greatest challenges. Presentations by the stakeholders: |
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| * Federal Department (DCCEE) | John Higgins | |
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| * Federal Department (DSEWPC) | Eliza Murray | |
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| * Local NGO - Conservation Council | John Hibberd | |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Afternoon session: Workshops | |||
| 14:00 | Identify key themes for adaptation challenges | ||
| * Group discussion on defining broad adaptation challenges for Terrestrial Biodiversity in ACT. | |||
| 14:30 | Working groups draw up adaptation research priorities and how they could be addressed | ||
| 15:30 | * Report back and close, facilitator to draw together learning, threads and extract future options | |
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| 16:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
