Living With 2°C Plus: Where are we, why are we here and where do we want to go?

Description

The first roundtable in the Living With 2°C Plus roundtable series will discuss progress on adaptation at the UNFCCC COP29, current work by NAPA fellows in the United States, and work in Australia.

Luke Millar, member, UNFCCC Adaptation Committee

State of Play 1: UNFCCC; global goal on adaptation, objectives and progress

Mr Millar is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee representing Annex 1 Parties. He works on international adaptation engagement at DCCEEW in Canberra. He will discuss the origin of the Global Goal on Adaptation, its objectives, achievements and next steps after COP 29.

Professor Dan Guttman,  co-convenor, International Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration, United States

State of Play 2: Building international collaboration

Prof Guttman is co-chair of the NAPA Standing Panel on International Affairs, a distinguished environmental lawyer and teacher. He will discuss Climate Scanner, a global assessment of government action on climate being developed by the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and a recent multi-year study looking at adaptation governance in three countries.

Professor Mark Pisano, co-chair, National Academy of Public Administration, United States

State of Play 3: Moving forward adaptation action in the US

A/Prof Janet Stanley, Melbourne University

State of Play 4: Adaptation in Australia either side of the lost decade

A/Prof Stanley led a research project on adaptation for small coastal communities in 2012. She has recently compared the findings from that work with outcomes from rural adaptation workshops in 2022 and 2024 (with Michael Spencer and Franz Wohlgezogen).

Professor Elizabeth Losos, Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University

State of Play 5: Tracking progress on adaptation

Prof Losos recently participated in a collaborative project on adaptation indicators for the White House. She is an adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University. Her work focuses on sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

Panel discussion

Presenters are joined by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Oran Young and Dr Franz Wohlgezogen (University of Melbourne) to discuss challenges in moving the adaptation agenda forward. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr Michael Spencer, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Green Lab, Monash Business School.

Distinguished Professor Oran Young is renowned for his contribution to Arctic governance and is a world leader in the fields of international governance and environmental institutions. He was co-lead on the international comparative adaptation governance project for the National Academy of Public Administration with Professor Dan Guttman.

Franz Wohlgezogen, Senior Lecturer in management was the lead author of a paper submitted earlier this year to the UNFCCC United Arab Emirates–Belém work programme on indicators that addressed the challenges of developing indicators for the global framework on adaptation adopted at COP28.