Biodiversity for Climate Protection Forum

nature as climate solution, not casualty

Biodiversity Summit 2009, with keynote speaker Dr Rachel Warren

Aiming to better understand the connections between biodiversity and climate, and why protecting natural ecosystems is essential to tackle the climate crisis.

Biodiversity Summit 2009, with keynote speaker Dr Rachel Warren - Aiming to better understand the connections between biodiversity and climate, and why protecting natural ecosystems is essential to tackle the climate crisis.

The climate crisis is transforming biodiversity policy, demanding rapid fundamental change to protect and restore the natural environment.

The Biodiversity Summit 2009 will review how natural ecosystems contribute to mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis, including the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle and carbon storage and the contribution of biodiversity to the resilience of natural ecosystems, particularly in the face of climate change.  The Summit will also analyse the policy implications flowing from the need to protect and restore natural ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation and discuss implementation strategies and tools.

The program for the day will include presentations, workshops and discussion. Participants will have an opportunity to offer workshops; and round table sessions will cover issues like how to ‘frame’ the policy debate, identifying key issues that need to be addressed, and how the policy agenda is to be taken forward. 

Speakers: Dr Rachel Warren from the world renowned Tyndall Centre UK; ecologist and IUCN Councillor Prof Brendan Mackey; ecologist Dr Heather Keith; solicitor Vanessa Bleyer; barrister Andrew Walker; Wilderness Society international climate team member Peg Putt; environmental policy analyst, Andrew MacIntosh; environmentalist Margaret Blakers.

Designed for everyone interested in biodiversity and the climate challenge – researchers, lawyers, land managers, activists, students, policy-makers, and interested individuals.

When:    Saturday, 8 August 2009, 9am to 5pm
Venue:   Canberra Institute of Technology, K Block, Constitution Ave, Canberra
Registration fees:    Standard $95, low income $55 (includes lunch and morning and afternoon tea)
Registration and information:  http://www.biodiversitysummit.org.au/
Deadline for registration:  Tuesday 4 August

This second Biodiversity Summit is organised by the Green Institute www.greeninstitute.com.au & Lawyers for Forests  www.lawyersforforests.asn.au