Please join us for a breakfast briefing to discuss.

Our speakers will explore smart business responses to a changing climate focusing on:

• investment – emerging questions and responses from lenders
• effective approaches applied by infrastructure intensive organisations to increase resilience to climatic hazards
• who inherits the risk in delivery models such as public-private-partnerships?
• integrating climate risk into design and maintenance regimes

Breakfast briefing details

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 7.00am to 8.30am
The Sebel, Albert Park
REGISTER online before Wednesday 30 May 2012
Join us for breakfast and networking at 7.00am followed by a briefing at 7.30am.

Guest speakers

Mark Rogers, Asset Manager, Infrastructure Investment at Colonial First State Global Asset Management

Mark was appointed Asset Manager, Infrastructure Investment at Colonial First State Global Asset Management in March 2007. Mark is responsible for the development and implementation of asset management strategies for the various portfolio assets and is involved in due diligence during the investment decision processes for Colonial First State’s Infrastructure Investment team. Prior to joining Colonial, Mark was a senior policy officer working on the Federal airport sale process and the development of the regulatory framework for the newly privatised Federal airports.  He has also been involved in government liaison, regulatory approvals and regulatory compliance issues for a large number of major infrastructure projects in Australia and New Zealand. Mark has over 16 years experience on all sides of the infrastructure sector from his involvement with the Department of Transport and Regional Services, his private consulting experience in major infrastructure projects and his work with Origin Energy in project construction and operation in the oil and gas sector. He is also Deputy Chair of the Australian Green Infrastructure Council.

Michael Nolan, Global Technical Leader Climate Adaptation, AECOM

Michael is an environmental professional with eighteen years experience managing sustainability and climate change outcomes for business and government in Australia and internationally in USA, China, Brazil, New Zealand and United Kingdom.

He has extensive experience in federal and state government policy, sustainable infrastructure, energy, greenhouse and climate change adaptation. Michael has project managed over 80 climate change impact, risk assessment and adaptation projects relating to states, cities, water, power, road, rail, ports, buildings and facilities.

Michael is representing the Australian Green Infrastructure Council in developing an Australian Standard for Climate Change Adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure.

What are we doing and what can we do about it?

Adaptation for health – An expert panel discussion

This is a special pre-NCCARF conference forum and immediately precedes the Conference Registration Welcome Reception

Date: Monday 25 June 2012 Time: 1.30pm-4.30pm

Venue: Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne

This is a special pre-NCCARF conference and will take place the day before the 2012 NCCARF conference

Registration: Free registration for NCCARF 2012 conference delegates and network members via this registration link: http://climatehealth.eventbrite.com.au  or download a flyer

The Adaptation Research Network for Human Health invites local and international experts to discuss how climate change adaptation actions can be successfully implemented across sectors affecting human health. The special session will bring together researchers and end-users to discuss what we are doing to reduce the impact of climate change on human health. Exploring what is working, and what is not working so well, and what other adaptation actions we should be undertaking. This forum will explore where we are and identify where we should be heading to protect human health from climate change.

About the panel discussion

Climate change is already impacting on human health. Inaction will exacerbate this problem. The Adaptation Research Network for Human Health invites local and international experts to discuss how climate change adaptation actions can be successfully implemented across sectors affecting human health. The special session will bring together researchers and end-users to discuss what we are doing to reduce the impact of climate change on human health. Exploring what is working, and what is not working so well, and what other adaptation actions we should be undertaking. This forum will explore progress to date and identify where we should be heading to protect human health from

climate change. Opportunities will exist for questions and participant engagement.

Panel discussants

This workshop is for researchers, decision makers and practitioners interested in developing strategies and partnerships in the broad area of climate change adaptation and human health.

Prof Tony McMichael – Australian National University, pioneer of research on the human health impacts

of climate change and author of the Climate Commission’s recent report ‘The Critical Decade: Climate

Change and Health’

• Dr Kris Ebi – Executive Director of the Technical Support Unit for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• Prof Alistair Woodward – University of Auckland, IPCC Lead Author Human Health, Leader of World Health Organization Project on Climate Change in the Pacific.
• A/Prof Sophie Dwyer – Executive Director, Health Protection, Queensland Health
• Dr Liz Hanna – Australian National University and Convenor of the Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Human Health

For further information please contact Liz Hanna: Liz.Hanna@anu.edu.au

David Karoly

David Karoly is leader of the Climate Change theme in the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and Professor of Climate Science in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Professor Karoly is an internationally recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Nino-Southern Oscillation. He was heavily involved in preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007, in several different roles. Professor Karoly was Chair of the Premier of Victoria’s Climate Change Reference Group during 2008 and 2009. He is a member of the Science Advisory Panel of the Australian Climate Commission and a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. His international activities include as a member of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme.