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

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?)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)