STATE OF INNOVATION Summit: Climate Innovation
Date and time
Location
The Liberty Training & Conference Centre
Ground Floor
197 St Georges Terrace
Perth, WA 6000
Australia
Description
in collaboration with
STATE OF INNOVATION Summit
Climate Innovation
One of the most innovative institutions, NASA, describes climate change as one of the most complex issues facing us today. It involves many dimensions – science, economics, society, politics and moral & ethical questions – and is a global problem, felt on local scales, that will be around for decades and centuries to come.
Carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that has driven recent global warming, lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and the planet (especially the oceans) takes a while to respond to warming. So even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today, global warming and climate change will continue to affect future generations. In this way, humanity is “committed” to some level of climate change.
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 per cent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.
Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.
MC/MODERATOR
Andrew D Moore, Principal Scientist, Life Cycle Logic
PRESENTERS / PANELLISTS
Hon Wilson Tuckey, former federal Minister for Forestry and Conservation and Minister for Regional Services, Territories and Local Government.
Professor Ray Wills, Managing Director at Future Smart Strategies
Charlie Caruso, Executive Officer at Climate Outcomes Foundation
Dr Vanessa Rauland, Managing Director at ClimateClever
Peter Kasprzak, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Innovate Australia
Professor Peter Newman AO, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University
The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and a general discussion moderated by MC, Andrew D Moore.
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