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Upcoming Events
Seminar: 24th May 2012, 12.30 - 1.30
Venue: Government Buildings Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker: Laurel Evans, Visiting Scholar at Victoria Universlty Department of Psychology
Title: The time-scale and magnitude of sea level rise: influences of framing on perceptions of risk
Psychological research on risk perception shows that people are sensitive to framing and may react differently to different framings of identical information. Dr Evans, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychology, asked Wellington and Kapiti Coast residents about the potential for sea-level rise in Wellington city, showing them images of possibilities. She will discuss whether these different framings affected people's responses to the information, in particular their overall level of concern about sea-level rise and climate change, their support for government initiatives to adapt to and to mitigate climate change, and their personal intentions to change behaviour.
Resources:
- The time-scale and magnitude of sea level rise Seminar flyer (PDF, 207 KB)
Previous Events
Seminar: 11th April 2012
Title: Leviathan in the greenhouse: can we solve climate change without extending the state?
Speaker: Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department
Resources:
- Leviathan in the greenhouse Presentation slides (PDF, 9.5 MB)
- Leviathan in the greenhouse Seminar flyer (PDF, 379 KB)
- Leviathan in the greenhouse Mediasite recording
Seminar: 26th March 2012
Title: Unilateral Climate Policy in Europe - competitiveness concerns and policy options
Speaker: Andreas Loschel, University of Hidelberg
Seminar co-hosted with the Institute of Policy Studies more information
IPCC Working Group 3 meeting: 19th - 23rd March 2012
Victoria University’s Climate Change Research Institute (NZCCRI) coordinated a recent meeting of authors working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, due out in 2014.
Over two hundred people from fifty different countries or territories converged on Wellington for five days of intense work on their contribution to the report. The authors were welcomed at the opening session by Dr Paul Reynolds, CEO of the Ministry for the Environment, and Professor Dave Frame, Director of NZCCRI. The Mayor of Wellington, Celia Wade-Brown, spoke to delegates at an informal welcome event hosted by the Faculty of Science.
The purpose of the closed meeting was to allow the authors to make significant progress on their Assessment with their colleagues from around the world. However, some of the authors were able to share their expertise through events set up by NZCCRI and others such as Motu. Those who benefitted included parliamentarians, government officials from Treasury, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Economic Development, NZTA, Ministry for the Environment, the Earthquake Commission, Victoria University staff and the public.
Co-chair of the working group, Professor Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, deemed the meeting a great success, saying “The discussions in New Zealand were lively and productive. I do not only ascribe this to the great expertise and commitment of our author teams, but also to the most qualified local organization as well as the excellent facilities provided by our hosts."
Seminar: 15th March 2012
Title: Climate change and development - helpfully distant neighbours?
Speaker: Professor Dave Frame
Inaugural talk in the Geography, Environment and Development Seminar Series
Resources:
- Climate Change and Development - helpfully distant neighbours? Presentation slides (PDF, 1 MB)
Seminar: 23rd February 2012
Title: Development of Earth System Models and Application to Climate Change
Speaker: Ron Prinn, Director, Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Resources:
- Development of Earth System Models Mediasite recording
- Development of Earth System Models Presentation slides (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Development of Earth System Models Seminar flyer (PDF, 365 KB)
Seminar: 17th February 2012
Title: Climate change: the Durban deal - views from inside the negotiations
Speaker: Adrian Macey
Resources:
- Climate Change: the Durban Deal Mediasite recording of the seminar
Seminar co-hosted with the Institute of Policy Studies
Seminar: Wednesday 15th February 2012
Title: Reasoning about Catastrophic Climate Risks
Speaker: Antony Millner, Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley
Resources:
- Reasoning about Catastrophic Risks Presentation slides, (PDF,1.3 MB)
- Reasoning about Catastrophic Risks Seminar flyer (PDF, 383 KB)
Seminar: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Title: Ambiguity and Climate Policy
Speaker: Antony Millner, Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley
Resources:
- Ambiguity and Climate Policy Presentation slides, (PDF, 2.4 MB)
- Ambiguity and Climate Policy Mediasite recording
- Ambiguity and Climate Policy Seminar flyer (PDF, 383 KB)