Climate-Related Risk & Disclosure
Getting climate risk ready
As governments recognise the escalating impact of climate change on their finances, infrastructure, service delivery and policies, it is more crucial than ever for them to effectively assess and manage climate-related risks.
Governments have a fundamental responsibility to consider current and future climate risks, and opportunities, in decision making. With mandatory climate disclosure requirements in development at a Commonwealth level, and proactive action happening across other levels of government, now is the time to take action.
The Public Sector Climate-Related Risk and Disclosure Summit will uniquely bring together the key stakeholders and leaders from across Federal, State and Local Government to share best practices to assess, disclose and manage climate risk. This summit will also explore the key role of leadership, governance, and how to build public sector capability to effectively manage climate risk.
Benefits of attending
Hear about the Commonwealth Climate Disclosure reform & what your obligations are under it
Understand how DCCEEW & state governments are building capability to assess risk & support adaptation
Gain insights from all levels of government and learn how they’re taking action to manage climate risk
Hear from expert speakers across government, academia, legal and more
Connect with like-minded professionals to support you on your climate risk journey
Speakers
Prof. Mark Howden
Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions
& Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Aaron Coutts-Smith
Director Climate Adaptation, Land Sector Opportunities
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (NSW DCCEEW)
Emily Briggs (She/Her)
Deputy Director General Climate and Sustainability,
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation WA
Cate Hart
Executive Director, Environment, Heritage and Sustainability
Department for Environment and Water (SA)
Christian Gergis
Member, Sustainability Reporting Project Advisory Panel & Head of Policy,
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Michael Bray
Member, Sustainability Reporting Project Advisory Panel & Professor of Practice (Integrated Reporting), Deakin University
Special Adviser – Connectivity and Integrated Reporting, IFRS Foundation
Prof Brendan Mackey
Director
Climate Action Beacon & Climate Ready Initiative Griffith University
Perry Wiles
Director
Adaptation and Resilience Policy, ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
Julie Richmond
Manager Adaptation Policy,
Department of Energy, Environment & Climate Action VIC
Tiffany Correggia
Manager, Climate Preparedness
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water (NSW DCCEEW)
Lana Kovac
Director, Climate Resilience & Government Action
Department of Energy, Environment & Climate Action VIC
Rizsa Albarracin
Lead - Climate Risk and Adaptation, Office of Hospital Sustainability,
Queensland Health
Why attend
Build public sector capability for climate leadership & governance
Understand & prepare for climate-related disclosure
Improve climate risk identification & assessment capabilities
Embed climate risk management in operations & decision making
Who will attend
Federal, State & Local Government, with roles & responsibilities for:
- Climate Risk & Strategy
- Sustainability & Climate Change
- Climate Preparedness, Resilience, Adaptation
- Climate Reporting & Disclosure
- Enterprise Risk, Finance, Governance
- Policy & Programs
- Net Zero & Transition
Agenda
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Acknowledgement of Country & opening remarks
CHAIR
Prof Brendan Mackey
Director
Climate Action Beacon & Climate Ready Initiative Griffith University
Leadership, governance, capability
Understanding evolving climate risks, impacts & responses
- Overview of what the science and data says about climate change and extreme events
- Understanding climate risk and some implications of complex risks
- How could climate risk impact government organisations and policy?
- Some options for driving effective national action on emission-reduction and adaptation
Prof. Mark Howden
Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions
& Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Building confident futures through pragmatic climate action
- Why we can’t afford to ignore climate risk and its impact on government operations, industry and community
- Incorporating climate risk into government operations and policy
- How can the public sector engage broadly and bring key stakeholders on the journey?
- All hope isn’t lost – practical actions to tackle climate risk
Tayanah O’Donnell
Partner, Climate and Sustainability
Deloitte Australia
Interactive Networking
In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to meet and connect with fellow attendees and speakers in two minute bursts and set up conversations for the rest of the event
Morning Tea
Brigadier Damien McLachlan
CSC & Bar, Director General Land Worthiness
Department of Defence
Driving leadership & action on climate change risk
- What is the role of public sector leaders in taking action on climate risks?
- How can we drive cultural change within organisations to effectively prioritise climate risk?
- What does good governance of climate risk look like? Is there a role for a chief sustainability officer within government department?
Emily Briggs (She/Her)
Deputy Director General Climate and Sustainability,
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation WA
Lana Kovac
Director, Climate Resilience & Government Action
Department of Energy, Environment & Climate Action VIC
Chris Johnston
Branch Head - Climate Active Risk and Disclosure
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Climate reporting & disclosure
Australia’s journey to mandatory climate reporting – comparison with other jurisdictions
- Treasury’s proposed reporting framework
- AASB adoption of ISSB standards – overview and international alignment
- Next steps – how will reporting trigger a shift in practice
Michael Bray
Member, Sustainability Reporting Project Advisory Panel & Professor of Practice (Integrated Reporting), Deakin University
Special Adviser – Connectivity and Integrated Reporting, IFRS Foundation
Christian Gergis
Member, Sustainability Reporting Project Advisory Panel & Head of Policy,
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Lunch
Commonwealth Climate Disclosure
- Overview of the Commonwealth Climate Disclosure reform
- Obligations for Commonwealth entities and Commonwealth companies under in the reform, with a focus on the pilot
- Complementary policies and next steps
Lesley Andrew
Director Commonwealth Climate Disclosure
Department of Finance
Building capability to assess, disclose & manage climate risk
- Understanding climate-related disclosures across government
- How do we make risk assessment and disclosure meaningful and outcomes driven?
- What frameworks and tools do you have in place?
- What have been the challenges, learnings or successes to date?
Perry Wiles
Director
Adaptation and Resilience Policy, ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
James Duggie
Principal Policy Officer Climate Risk and Resilience Branch
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, WA
Julie Richmond
Manager Adaptation Policy,
Department of Energy, Environment & Climate Action VIC
Sarah Whitcher
A/Manager Climate Change Policy and Strategy
Department for Environment and Water, SA
Afternoon tea
Looking at climate risk through a governance lens
- Reframing climate risks through a governance, finance and liability lens
- What does good governance look like and how can we redefine our enterprise relationship with climate risk?
- The link between climate governance and effective risk and opportunity management
Sarah Barker
Co-Chair
World Economic Forum Climate Governance Community of Experts
Managing climate risk in local government
- Overview of the Regional Climate Action Roadmap
- Responding to climate-related risks, challenges and opportunities within a local government context
David Moore
Manager Environment and Sustainability Policy
Sunshine Coast Council
Closing remarks
Networking Drinks
Acknowledgement of Country & opening remarks
CHAIR
Prof Brendan Mackey
Director
Climate Action Beacon & Climate Ready Initiative Griffith University
Identifying & assessing risk
Developing Australia’s first national climate risk assessment framework
- Overview of the Australian Government’s work on climate risk assessment and disclosure
- How we are building capacity across government to assess risk and drive adaptation
Chris Johnston
Branch Head - Climate Active Risk and Disclosure
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Co-designing a climate risk assessment framework with Queensland Government
- Building government capability through the Queensland Climate Ready Program
- Developing a fit for purpose framework for doing climate risk management
- Insights and learnings from framework development and implementation
Cheryl Briars
Project Manager, Climate Action, Beacon & Climate Ready Initiative
Griffith University
Morning Tea
Climate Risk Management in NSW Government
- Overview of NSW four pillar approach to managing climate risk to assets and operations
- Bringing it together; executive leadership, governance, integration of climate change into decision making, effective information, tools and training
- How this strategy guides NSW whole of government response to climate change risk and governance (including climate related financial disclosures)
Aaron Coutts-Smith
Director Climate Adaptation, Land Sector Opportunities
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (NSW DCCEEW)
Tiffany Correggia
Manager, Climate Preparedness
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water (NSW DCCEEW)
Roundtable Discussions – Getting climate risk ready
In this interactive session, you’ll get the chance to connect with like-minded peers at the conference, and to share and discuss
- What stage is your organisation/department at when it comes to assessing and managing climate risk?
- How are you building capability and what steps or strategies do you have in place?
- What are some of the current challenges you’re facing or successes you’ve had so far?
Lunch
Embedding climate risks into decision making
Improving access to climate data & insights for risk assessment, reporting & decision making
- Building risk and impact information evidence base for decision-making
- Working towards consistent and centralised access to climate information, insights and data
Vicki Woodburn
Group Executive
Australian Climate Service
Investing in an uncertain future
- Mind the gap – Why is there an adaptation investment shortfall?
- What is the role of government in investing in adaptation?
- Building (resilient) bridges – what is available to help organisations calculating the benefits of resilience to support investment, and how have they been used in practice?
- What’s next? – Systemic approaches to investing in resilience
Katie Vines
Director - Adaptation and Resilience
Climate-KIC Australia
Afternoon tea
Queensland Health’s response to climate change
- Overview of the Queensland Health Climate Risk Strategy 2021-2026 and its strategic priorities.
- The role of the Office of Hospital Sustainability in supporting emissions reduction strategies and reporting.
- Climate risk assessment and climate adaptation planning for the Hospital and Health Services.
Kevin Phillips
Director,
Office of Hospital Sustainability, Queensland Health
Rizsa Albarracin
Lead - Climate Risk and Adaptation, Office of Hospital Sustainability,
Queensland Health
The role of climate projections in climate adaptation and risk management in the ACT
- The necessity of handling projection uncertainty through a risk management framework
- The Climate Change Risk Assessment for the ACT and a whole of Government Adaptation Framework for the ACT
- Going beyond just the projection data – the use of narrative scenarios to inform risk assessment and adaptation action
Perry Wiles
Director
Adaptation and Resilience Policy, ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
Closing Remarks from the Chair & Close of Conference
Building the capabilities to understand and assess climate risk is critical in supporting public sector professionals to effectively manage these risks. In this workshop, Cheryl Briars and Prof. Brendan Mackey will provide a foundation in the concepts, tools, and strategies to support you to assess climate risk and embed these into your risk management processes. You will also explore how this can be applied in practice through case study examples.
Benefits of attending
- Identify physical & transition climate risks in a public sector context
- Explore different tools & frameworks used to assess climate risk
- Understand how you can embed climate risk into wider risk management practices
Prof Brendan Mackey & Cheryl Briars
Griffith University
Venue
Rex Hotel Canberra, Ngunnawal Country
150 Northbourne Ave,
Braddon ACT 2612
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Very engaging and insightful presentation that forces you to think outside the box.”
Assistant Director
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
This conference was relevant to the work we are doing in our department, there were plenty of takeaways from the presentations. The workshops were useful and practical.”
Assistant Director Data Governance Section
Department of Health and Aged Care
The presentations were very relevant to our work and industry. The presenters were informative and the chair was also quite engaging. Appreciate how this forum opens up and encourages collaboration, learnings and leveraging work across various organisations, domestic as well as international”
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Australian Taxation Office
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