Roundtable Series: Living with 2°C Plus – The Climate Change Adaptation Challenge

Living in a world of more than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures will present a host of challenges to water, food, health, infrastructure, ecosystems, social equity, cultural heritage and more. All of these impacts will have costs. Current indications are that we are heading for at least a 2.5°C warmer world. 

The Monash Green Lab roundtables, held in collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), will bring together leading international and Australian thinkers from government, business and community sectors.

Roundtable 4: Learning from wildfire: Do institutions constrain our ability to manage risk reduction and recovery?
 

While emergency services have improved the way they deal with extreme events and reduced loss of life, challenges remain in how we reduce risks and prepare on one hand, and recover from events on the other. Is our vision and agenda for risk and recovery limited by the institutions who manage these events? This roundtable will highlight different approaches and the extent to which our institutional silos constrain options and opportunities for risk reduction and recovery. It will do this through an exploration of recent wildfire events in the U.S. and Australia.

Featuring Fellows Louise Comfort, Matthew Auer and Daniel Guttman

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