Living with 2°C Plus: Locally led adaptation; building on place-based approaches to adaptation

Dr Elissa Waters, Lecturer Human Geography, Monash University

Dr Waters focuses on the social and political dimensions of climate change adaptation and disaster governance in Australia and the Pacific. She is a chief investigator on the National Environmental Science Program Climate Systems Hub project ‘Enabling Best Practice Adaptation in Australia’.

Amanda Mullan, Hub Coordinator and Project Director, National Academy of Public Administration

Ms Mullan works at the National Academy of Public Administration, which is an initiative of academy fellows Mark and Jane Pisano. The Hub recognises place-based solutions are essential for local problems, and works to identify solutions that can be replicated.

Katrina Graham, Manager, Northern Tasmania Alliance for Resilient Councils (NTARC)

The NTARC builds capacity in local government for climate resilience; working collaboratively to increase capacity and capability of councils to understand and respond to increasing hazards and disasters regionally.

Prof Liu Beibei, The John Hopkins University

Prof Beibei is Professor of Environment Planning and Management at the School of the Environment, Nanjing University, and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Centre. With a background in environmental system analysis and environmental policy analysis, she is working on building resilience of agricultural and industrial systems.

Miles Murphy, Senior research analyst - National Academy of Public Administration

Miles is a senior research analyst with the Centre for Intergovernmental Partnerships at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in Washington DC. He and his colleagues at NAPA completed a report last October on financing strategies for local government to address local level climate impacts.

Prof Mark Pisano, Co-Chair - National Academy of Public Administration

Prof Pisano is co-chair of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Standing Panel on Intergovernmental Systems with a distinguished record of public service in regional planning, environment and infrastructure. With Rob Lempert, he developed the concept of Water and Climate Resilient Boundary Centres. He will provide an update on NAPA’s work on climate change adaptation.

Dr Emma Carmody, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

Dr Carmody is an international environmental lawyer and environmental entrepreneur with particular expertise in wetlands, freshwater and the intersection between human rights and water. In early 2022, Emma co-founded a for-purpose business called ‘Restore Blue’, the objective of which is to work with local communities to restore lost blue carbon wetlands at scale in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. She is a fellow of the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, sits on the Strategic Advisory Council of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and is an affiliate of the Australian National University Water Justice Hub.

Prof Dan Guttman, Tianjin University Law School

Prof Guttman is a professor at the Tianjin University Law School, an adjunct professor at the Fudan University - London School of Economics Institute for Global Public Policy, and fellow of the New York University US-Asia Law Institute. He will summarise and facilitate audience questions.

Living With 2°C Plus: Roundtable series

Our world will become at least 2.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, current indications show.

Following COP29, Monash Green Lab is hosting a roundtable series to discuss the challenges of implementing strategies to live in a significantly warmer world.

In cooperation with the US National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the Monash roundtables will bring together leading international and Australian thinkers from government, business and community sectors.

The roundtables will provide insights from current work on climate change adaptation and point to areas where further work is required.

Events in the series

Contact

greenlab@monash.edu