IOCI Seminar Outcomes

1. IOCI Seminar Outcomes Report – that will be delivered to Minister Input into the Wednesday workshop

2. Aims • Seminar Aim • Foster informed adaptation to climate variability and change across all sectors (terrestrial and marine) of the south west • Workshop aim is to review adaptation issues, and established and emergent (sector) support activities for climate adaptation in South West Western Australia. • Marine and climate change are relevant – there are science issues and institutional issues (WAMSI/IOCI – integration of strategic and tactical programs are the way for the future?)

3. Seminar Inputs • Speakers overheads • Rapporteurs reports • Butcher paper responses • Plenary session for feed back on the seminars

4. Workshop • Purpose • Set scene for future IOCI science program • Better use of IOCI and other research • Input into GH 5.5 • Workshop will be organised with sector break out groups to address key climate change and climate variability questions

5. Session 2 • Session 2 (basic science session) • How/why has our climate has changed • How our region’s ocean climate has changed • Where is our SWWA climate headed? • The Changing Ocean: Implication for the future • These talks gave an over view of our state of knowledge of observed change and its causes and projections of future climate risk

6. Session 3 • Wally Cox • National resource management sectors in WA have identified climate as a mandatory issue. • We have a moral obligation to reduce GHG emissions. • There are threats to systems, particularly ecosystems, from factors other than climate change. Climate change will exacerbate these problems. • Q: How many ‘museums’ of our current ecosystems can we afford – to protect at least some species. • Q: How much adaptation can we afford

7. Session 3 • Elayne Grace • When does insurance stop and when does Government start? • Climate adaptation creates business opportunities (Workshop –what opportunities)

8. Session 3 • Brian Sadler • Need to develop thinking under conditions of variability rather than certainty and constancy. • Change is painful. • Laws and regulations may need to be changed (e.g. from following – a cost on bore licenses)

9. Session 4 • All recognised climate change need to be addressed and is here now • Need for comprehensive risk assessment involving climate • Project based action only for climate change • Challenge – climate research for integration into management plans (Workshop message) • Need to understand the implications of adaptations and community acceptance (also addressed by Geoff Syme)

10. Session 5 • Seasonal, Decadal, Long Term and Extremes • Sectors will develop sector relevant base lines and time scales (workshop issue) • Seasonal prediction needs to account for the decadal and the climate change signals • Need to look at both statistical and physical significance • Extremes both temporally and spatially variable

11. Session 6 • Ed Hauck • The growing demand for water has posed significant challenges • Regulation and management components of the water sector have been particularly challenged • Tools developed and applied to decision making • Programs for demand and supply management • Integrated planning will benefit from ‘well referenced baselines’ and used to identify climate scenarios • The SWWA climate experience has challenged governance and institutional arrangements in water sector

12. Session 6 • Roger Jones • New methodologies for climate change adaptation • Natural hazard based • Vulnerability/resilience based • Policy based • Mitigation based • Four Stages of adaptation • Autonomous • Generic • Specific • Transformative Workshop – issue of best methodology for a sector

13. Session 6 • Geoff Syme • How we behave limits our potential to respond? • Time scale of the threat affect the human response • How can we co-cordinate adaptive learning to climate change? (workshop issue)