Biodiversity for Climate protection: Canberra, Saturday 8 August
Program
The aims of the day are
to:
o Understand how natural
ecosystems help mitigate the climate crisis, including their role in
the global carbon cycle and the importance of biodiversity to
ecosystem resilience.
o Discuss the implications
of this new way of looking at biodiversity
o Analyse how Australia’s
laws, approach to carbon accounting, and international negotiating
positions deal with the role of biodiversity in climate
mitigation.
o Identify opportunities
to widen understanding and action leading into and during the 2010
International Year of Biodiversity.
o Identify issues that
need further investigation, discussion or
action.
Note. The focus will be primarily
on Australia and on Australia’s role
internationally.
The outcomes we are
planning for include:
o Understanding of why
protecting natural ecosystems is essential for a safe
climate.
o Understanding of the
transformation that this requires in Australia’s approach to (i)
biodiversity and nature conservation, and (ii) climate change
mitigation and adaptation.
o Identification of
opportunities to influence Australian policies, processes and
actions at all levels from local to global, especially in the
context of the 2010 International Year of
Biodiversity.
o An
agreed agenda for further research, dialogue, policy development and
action.
o
Identification
of pathways for advancing this agenda.
Draft
program: Saturday 8
August
Canberra
Institute of Technology, K
Block,
Constitution Ave, Canberra
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8.30 |
Registration
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9.00 |
Indigenous
acknowledgement
Introductions
Overview
of the day |
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9.30 |
Understanding
biodiversity and climate |
Brendan
Mackey: global
carbon cycle
Rachel
Warren:
deforestation and climate |
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10.40 |
Morning
tea (provided) |
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11.00 |
Discussion:
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What
are the policy and practical
implications
What
processes, policies and activities would be
affected
Who
are the key players
What
issues need more investigation or
discussion |
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12.30 |
Lunch
(provided) |
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1.30 |
State
of play; three important aspects
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Legislation
and policy: Vanessa Bleyer, Andrew
Walker
Carbon
accounting: Heather Keith,
Margaret Blakers
International
processes and financing: Andrew Macintosh, Peg
Putt |
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3.00 |
Afternoon
tea (provided) |
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3.20 |
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Opportunities
to promote change a) in the lead up to 2010; b) during 2010; c) in the long
term.
An
agreed agenda for further research, dialogue, policy
development and action.
Identified
pathways for advancing this
agenda. |
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5.00 |
Close |
Join
us for drinks and dinner nearby if you
can |
o
Global: Copenhagen (REDD,
post-Kyoto), 2010 International Year of Biodiversity and 2010
biodiversity target
o
National: CPRS, Plan B, National
Biodiversity Strategy, EPBC Act and EPBC Review, Caring for Country,
Indigenous Protected Areas, Regional Forest Agreements, carbon sink
forest legislation, research, Wild Country, employment and training
for biodiversity and landscape management
o
State: biodiversity strategies,
reserve system and public land management, clearing controls,
Regional Forest Agreements, covenanting, research, catchment and
coastal management
o
Local/regional: planning, protected areas,
NRM strategies, public land management
o
On-ground: Kyoto revegetation, Kyoto
management (e.g. savanna burning), Indigenous land management,
covenanting, voluntary biodiversity protection and revegetation
(including land acquisition), agricultural soil
management. |
