'A Green Future? Biodiversity under Climate Change' Forum
Thursday, 07 February 2008 07:20

Conducted by The Hut Environmental & Community Association Inc (THECA)

12th April 2008 8:30am - 4.00pm

Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies
Technology Court, Pullenvale 4069 (Map )

Forum Programme will include:

Roger Kitching, Griffith University (Keynote Speaker)
New ecosystems for old: likely responses of biodiversity to climate change

Phil Alford, Bureau of Meteorology
Climate change in South-east Queensland

Melinda Laidlaw, Queensland Herbarium
The impact of climate change on Queensland’s subtropical rainforests

Kev Warburton, University of Queensland
Strategies to conserve fish diversity in SE Queensland streams

Christine Hosking, University of Queensland
Koala evolution and climate change: ultimate survivor or the last branch

Don Sands, CSIRO
Climate change and insect/plant interaction: predicting affects on food webs and breeding systems

Rachel McFadyen, Weeds CRC
The green blanket: weeds will be the big winners

Larissa Waters, Environmental Defenders Office
Responding to climate change: legal issues and opportunities (working title)

Ronan Lee, Queensland State Parliament
Tackling climate change in Queensland

Other topics will be addressed, including:


Carbon offsets, carbon taxes; Clean and renewable energy technologies; Threatened species

This program is correct at time of printing but is subject to change.

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL.


For more information and to register please visit www.theca.asn.au
 

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