Security and Resilience in a damaged climate world

Strategic Insights from the EU and Australia - part of European Climate Diplomacy Week

The seminar aims to facilitate the exchange of best practices between Australian and European practitioners in assessing and integrating climate and resilience issues in security strategies, emergency preparedness & intervention and disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change, in particular in the Pacific.

The seminar will be opened by Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS and H.E. Sem Fabrizi, Ambassador of the European Union.

European guest speakers include:

• Dr Nicolas Regaud, climate advisor @ French Ministry of Defence
• (Ret) Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, former UK Government Climate and Energy Security Envoy and Special Representative for Climate Change
• Dr Francois Gemenne, director of the Hugo Observatory @ University of Liège and co-director of the Observatory on Climate and Defence @ (French) Ministry of Defence
• Colonel Bruno Ulliac, Asia Pacific Regional Adviser for Civil Protection @ the French Embassy in Singapore
• Dr Wulf Killmann, German Development Agency, GIZ Program Director Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region, based in Suva
• Dr Lennart Reifels University of Melbourne and Free University of Berlin, disaster risk reduction policy and disaster mental health and public health preparedness expert

Program

Overall Chair: Professor Mark Howden, Director, ANU Climate Change Institute

09:05 Opening and welcome - H.E. EU Ambassador Sem Fabrizi and Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS

09:15 Dr Karl Braganza, Head of Climate Monitoring, Bureau of Meteorology

09:30 Integrating climate risks within security strategies

What are the risks and how to design a governance system that integrates these risks into national broad security strategies?

Chair: (Ret) Air Commodore Anthony Forestier, Fellow at the Air Power Development Centre, Fairbairn

Presentations by panel:

• Dr François Gemenne : a view from the EU
• Dr Nicolas Regaud: a view from France
• (Ret) Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti: a view from the UK
• Tom Hamilton, First Assistant Secretary Strategic Policy, Department of Defence

10:35 Q&A

11:20 Conclusions - Ret Admiral Chris Barrie and Dr François Gemenne

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 Emergency preparedness and resilience (8 minutes each)

Chair and introduction: Dr Paul Barnes Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Presentations by panel:

• Air Vice Marshall Mel Hupfeld, Vice Chief of the Defence Force Group, Department of Defence
• Mark Crosweller, Director, Emergency Management Australia
• A view from the European Union - Dr Lennart Reifels
• A Pacific view from France - Colonel Bruno Ulliac

12:30 Q&A

13:20 Conclusions - Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti and Mark Crosweller Director Emergency Management Australia

13:30 Lunch break

14:30 Disaster risk reduction and adaptation

Keynotes: H.E. Karim Medrek, Ambassador of Morocco and H.E. Yogesh Punja, High Commissioner for Fiji

14:50 Chair and introduction: Professor Mark Howden, Director of ANU Climate Change Institute

Presentations by panel:

• Dr Lennart Reifels, A view from the European Union
• Dr Wulf Killman EU and Germany's presence in the Pacific on DRR/adaptation
• Bakhodir Burkhanov, Country Director, UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji
• Alice Cawte, Assistant Secretary Pacific Regional Branch, DFAT
• Marc Purcell, CEO ACFID
  

15:30 Q&A

16:50 Conclusions - Dr Wulf Killman and Jeff Roach, Assistant Secretary InnovationXChange, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

17:00 Closing Address: H.E. Belgium Ambassador Jean-Luc Bodson and Katherine Jones Deputy Secretary, National Security and Emergency Management Group (tbc)

17:10 End

THIS SEMINAR WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC SCREENING OF THE FILM '30 MILLION' - TO FIND OUT MORE AND REGISTER CLICK HERE

Please note that parking may be difficult - we strongly advise using public transport, taxi, cycling, walking or allowing plenty of time to find a park. Arrival before 8.30am is strongly recommended if you are driving to give a higher chance of finding a park. View visitor parking map