Hobart

Seminar abstract

Thursday 9 August 2007, 2.30 pm
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

Paul Holper
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Infrastructure and Climate Change Risk Assessment for Victoria

The Victorian Government recently released a report by CSIRO, Maunsell Australia and law firm Phillips Fox, examining the likely impacts of climate change on the State's infrastructure, the categories of infrastructure most at risk and the opportunities for adaptation responses. We undertook the work on the basis that it should not be assumed that future climate and its impacts will simply be an extension of what we have experienced in the past.

Infrastructure types examined were water, power, telecommunications, transport and buildings. Climatic and other variables considered were temperature, rainfall, available moisture, humidity, winds, fire-weather frequency and intensity, solar radiation levels and sea-level rise. For each climate change variable identified, we described a worst-case scenario for low and high climate change projections for the years 2030 and 2070. The assessment was made on the basis of no adaptation responses to climate change.

This talk will describe how the project was established, outline the approach taken and summarise the findings (which made the front pages of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald!).

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Location:
CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

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