AUSTRALIA DECLARES

SHAPING AUSTRALIA’S

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

14-15 FEBRUARY 2020
BREAKOUT SESSION

Day 2

3:20PM – 4:30PM
MAIN STAGE l LEVEL 1

HOW TO REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING

PART TWO: DRAWDOWN & THE COOLING CONUNDRUM

Our climate is already dangerously hot. Turning this around will take not only the rapid elimination of greenhouse emissions, but will also require drawing a vast amount of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as fast as humanly possible, starting now. What would the race to rollout negative emissions at national level look like for a below zero Australia?

Biological Systems

Unearthing the potential for biological systems to deliver the drawdown at scale and speed to achieve safe climate conditions

Joe Herbertson – Director of The Crucible Group & Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle
Kate Dooley – Research Fellow and Lecturer at Melbourne University
Peter MaCreadie – Director of Deakin’s Blue Carbon Lab
Tony Rinaudo – Natural Resources Management Specialist, World Vision

Moderated by Natasha Mitchell – Radio National presenter

SESSION

SPEAKERS

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Tony

Rinaudo

“A crisis needs to be called out for what it is. No other designation will result in the required concerted corrective action necessary to solve the problem.“
ECOLOGY & RESEARCH

Tony Rinaudo
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Kate

Dooley

“The nexus of the climate and biodiversity crisis shows us that we need a different way of interacting with the Earth, one that is based on a different set of values than material wealth and consumption.“
RESEARCH & POLICY

Kate Dooley
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Peter

Macreadie

“Blue Carbon represents a powerful weapon in the fight against climate change, and, ironically, it capitalises on the same natural process that created fossil fuels in the first place.”
ECOLOGY & RESEARCH

Peter Macreadie
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Joe

Herbertson

“We need innovative and value-creating ways to balance carbon cycles within industry and agriculture, but drawdown of elevated CO2 levels is critical if we are to achieve safe climate conditions.”
STRATEGY & INNOVATION

Joe Herbertson