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If you haven’t already registered, this is a reminder to do so and to join Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes & Kate Mackenzie for a conversation about effective action on climate change and the future of the reef. Register below.
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Effective action on climate change and the future of the reef:
A conversation with
veterans of the climate-debates
Terry Hughes and Kate Mackenzie
Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
5.30 PM – 6.30 PM (AEDT) NSW, VIC, TAS, ACT
4.30 PM – 5.30 PM (AEST) QLD
4.00 PM – 5.00 PM (ACST) NT
2.30 PM – 3.30 PM (AWST) WA
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In October, Professor Lesley Hughes provided us with great clarity about the rapidly closing window of opportunity to take meaningful action on climate change. This month we are joined by two veterans of the climate-change discussion, Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes and Kate Mackenzie, to continue the discussion.
How can we act in good faith, within that closing window, to protect life as we know it, to protect the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), and to ensure that the Australian Museum’s (AM) Lizard Island Research Station can continue to support excellent coral-reef research? More immediately, how can we as a society identify and fund timely and effective responses to climate change while avoiding distractions that fail to scale, that are unaffordable, or that address a small problem while taking attention away from inaction on a scale that really matters?
Terry, through his work as director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, has been integral to the monitoring of the bleaching events in recent years on the GBR and he continues to provide detailed insights into its extent and severity. Terry will present his most recent work, setting out the scale of existing bleaching damage and its implications for various reef-recovery proposals.
Along with roles as a journalist and an independent consultant, Kate Mackenzie is a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, supporting their governance-focused policy work in the climate-change space. Kate has had leading roles at the Climate Institute and Climate-KIC Australia, understanding and critiquing the details of climate-change policy measures. She will talk about Australia’s history of policy responses within the context of UNESCO’s “in danger” listing of the Great Barrier Reef, and more recently within the context of the plan taken to COP26.
Professor Kristofer Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute, will moderate the discussion and AM Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) co-directors Dr Anne Hoggett AM and Dr Lyle Vail AM will join the Q&A from LIRS.
We do hope you can join us. Please pass on this invitation to anyone you think has an interest in joining our discussion.
Kate Hayward Chair
Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation
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Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes is the former Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (2005-2020). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2001. From 2002 to 2017 he held two ARC Federation Fellowships and a Laureate Fellowship. Terry has been awarded numerous prizes and awards, including the Centenary Medal of Australia, the quadrennial Darwin Medal of the International Society for Coral Reef Studies, and an Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has received two Honorary Doctorates, from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (2014), and Trinity College, Dublin (2019).
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Kate Mackenzie is a Centre for Policy Development (CPD) research fellow and an independent consultant who advises organisations pursuing the Paris Agreement goals on climate change, particularly in relation to finance and economics, strategy, and communication. She is also a regular contributor for Bloomberg Green, where she writes the "Stranded Assets" column. She has a particular interest in financial regulation, and has worked with CDP on this topic, co-authoring with CPD programme director Sam Hurley the "Climate Horizons" guide to finance-climate scenarios, which was awarded "Best non-broker research" by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia, and convening with financial regulators APRA and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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