Dr. Amita Bansal will tell us about the ‘Mother Child 2020’ study (#MC2020) which aims to understand the long-term impacts that the Black Summer bushfires followed by the COVID-19 pandemic have had on those who were pregnant or had a young infant in early 2020. Dr Bansal will tell us who can sign up to take part in the study and what they hope to find out!

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Dominic Bednar discusses his research about the institutional barriers of energy poverty recognition and response in the United States whilst considering the spatial, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic patterns of residential energy affordability, consumption, and efficiency.

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Ethan Steinberg shares Propagate Ventures' mission to scale agroforestry as a cornerstone of agriculture that yields financial dividends for farmers & investors while providing ecosystem service & climate change mitigation benefits to people and planet. He explains Propagate’s analytics & project development platform that is bringing their vision to life.

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Lindsey Hallock shares how water utilities in North Carolina are already feeling climate impacts. She discusses how stronger partnerships between water utilities, researchers and urban planners could be mutually beneficial and how utilities can make a better case for investing in climate adaptation.

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Dr. Wim Bastiaanssen explains how Irriwatch provides farmers and irrigators with crucial water application and irrigation data that optimizes water applications based on unique location, crop, and weather context. And he discusses why growers must shift their core productivity metric from land to the capacity of water to produce crops.

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Seth Schultz (The Resilience Shift) and Tom Lewis (WSP) share their adaptation journey and how they got to know each other. They give us the scientist’s perspective and the engineer’s perspective of sustainability and resilience. They introduce us to the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) and how it is bringing the engineering community and scientific community together.

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Katerina Gaita will highlight how Climate For Change draws on expertise in behaviour change and climate communications to reach people in the ‘wavering middle’ and inspire them to climate action such as having impactful conversations and political engagement through letter writing.

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Dr. Geoff Dabelko explains why climate change is a security issue for a diverse set of actors, locations, and issue areas. He points out how climate change responses, not just impacts, can lead to conflict and how today’s practitioners can avoid mistakes of the past.

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Dr.  Yohe served as a lead author for many chapters for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  He was Vice Chair of the Third National Climate Assessment under President Obama. Gary explains how the recent extreme disaster events can be attributed to climate change, but that this explosion of extremes has made projecting the scale of associated risk much more difficult. He further explains how many of these climate impacts are irreversible.

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Ketan Joshi speaks from a decade of work, analysis, and writing. He talks about Australia’s energy and climate opportunities and disasters. We explore how Australia’s political and economic relationship with fossil-fuels got us to where we are today and where we might go next.

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