Climate change adaptation - Risks and responsibilities

Property developers, resource developers and home owners are all facing challenges of how to adapt to climate change. This seminar examines the problems for these sectors of adapting to climate change. What expectations are there about their role versus the role of planning and government in general? How should the risks of, and responses to, climate change be shared between the private and public sectors? Three expert speakers look at these issues from the viewpoints of each of property developers, resource developers, and home owners.

Chair

Associate Professor Glen Searle, University of Queensland

Speakers

Dr Bruce Taylor is a human geographer with CSIRO ecosystem sciences. He will report on a major survey of property developers' perceptions of climate adaptation risks to their business and reputation, and set out issues these raise for climate adaptation policy and implementation.

Dr Chris McGrath is a barrister and senior lecturer in environmental regulation at The University of Queensland. He will consider the issue of potential targets for litigation under the theme: Who do you sue when you lose your house to human-induced climate change?

Sian Crawford is a senior consultant and team leader for ERM’s sustainability and climate change group based in Brisbane. She will draw on her work in the resources sector to look at how climate adaptation is being tackled by resource developers, and the problems involved in this.