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Just CERFing Newsletter feature
August 2010

The Coastal Education & Research Foundation (CERF), recently interviewed CZM Principal Consultant Dr Robert Kay to find out more about his career and personal drive in the coastal management field. CERF is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the advancement of the coastal sciences. The Foundation is devoted to the multi-disciplinary study of complex coastal zone problems.

Read the Q&A interview with Robert featured in the August Just CERFing newsletter, or visit www.cerf-jcr.org for more information about the Foundation.
 
Climate Adaptation Futures on the Gold Coast
July 2010

CZM staff played a number of roles at the recent Climate Adaptation Futures Conference last month at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. The first in a new series of international conferences, the event attracted nearly 1000 participants from across the globe.

Showcasing adaptation research from around the world, CZM Principal Consultant Dr Robert Kay chaired one panel session on Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation, with panel members including Cynthia Rosenzweig (GISS), Will Steffen (Australian National University), Andrew Haines (LSHTM), Bruce Thom (University of Sydney).

Ms Carmen Elrick, CZM Senior Consultant, presented on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone Management: A Capacity driven approach for the Republic of Kiribati, during the Coasts, Deltas and Small Islands session.

Poster presentations at the conference included:

  • Optimising information use in adaptation planning: Examples from Kiribati.
  • Dealing with uncertainty in climate change adaptation planning and developing triggers for future action - with Greg Fisk from BMT WBM.
  • Climate Change and Coastal Adaptation Challenges in Albania - with Eglantina Bruci from UNDP Climate Change Programme, Albania.

CZM was also the only Western Australian company to participate in the trade exhibition, sharing a booth with BMT WBM Consulting.

Throughout the conference, both Robert and Carmen were able to reconnect with adaptation colleagues within Australia and around the world, some of whom they had not seen in years, to share experiences and recent conceptual thinking about climate change adaptation.


For more information about the conference, visit the official conference website.

 

Conference Snapshot


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Joint BMT WBM / CZM conference trade booth

 

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Senior Consultant Ms Carmen Elirck presenting at the conference on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone Management: A Capacity driven approach for the Republic of Kiribati

 

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Principal Consultant Dr Robert Kay next to UNDP Albania/CZM poster on Climate Change and Coastal Adaptation Challenges

 
 
Claremont office turns into a film studio: Climate change infrastructure resilience video presentation
July 2010

Dr Robert Kay was put in the spotlight, quite literally, presenting on camera recently for the UNDP El Salvador conference on Strategies for Adapting Public and Private Infrastructure to Climate Change.


Robert discussed the key aspects countries need to think about to build climate change infrastructure resilience. Image Hunter Films helped to convert Robert's ideas into a short film, now set to be translated into other UN languages (French and Spanish).


The Supplementary Resource Guide, PowerPoint and film will be available shortly through the Adaptation Learning Mechanism website.
 
Mandurah Councillors Endorse Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan
May 2010

The Mandurah City Council endorsed the Coastal Zone Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan 2009 on Tuesday 27 April 2010. Coastal Zone Management worked together with the Mandurah City Council in conducting the assessment, which included both strategic and site-specific climate change risks and adaptation actions. The final Plan is available on the City of Mandurah website.

Recommendations included that Council:

1. Endorse the Coastal Zone Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan [August 2009] as a framework for the implementation of adaptation actions

2. Acknowledge the Coastal Zone Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan will inform the preparation of the City's overall Climate Change Strategy which will include a Climate Change Response Plan and Carbon Reduction Plan

3. Endorse the Coastal Zone Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan being publicly available


4. Continue to support greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.


"The Risk Assessment and Adaption Plan has provided Council with a great starting point to strategically tackle climate change issues in the coastal zone. CZM were professional, flexible and innovative in their approach and were patient and understanding of Council considerations, processes and procedures. The City now has a practical and Mandurah-specific action plan to adapt to coastal climate change impacts" said Craig Perry said Senior climate change officer at the City of Mandurah.


CZM Senior Consultant, Carmen Elrick, worked closely with the City of Mandurah on the Project. She commented that Mandurah are a forward thinking council, dedicated to moving beyond planning towards implementation. "Working with such an innovative Council on climate change adaptation allowed us to think 'outside the box - the standard framework - and deliver a detailed climate change risk assessment that provided step by step adaptation recommendations, both across Council and on site specific basis." She added.


The Federal Government under the Local Adaptation Pathways Project (LAPP) funded the project.

 
 

Clients Say...

Thank you for presenting at the LINC Forum in Mandurah. Your presentation was a highlight of the day for many in attendance.

Anne Marie - ICLEI Oceania

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