We would like to congratulate all the CMS members who received CoSE Awards.
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Abstract: Our global society is severely addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. The facts about our predicament – climate and environmental disruption, biodiversity loss, growing inequality, financial instability, eroding democracy – have been known for decades. However, the solutions have also been known for just as long. So why have we not made faster progress? What is holding us back? This talk frames our current predicament as a societal addiction to a ‘growth at all costs’ economic paradigm. While economic growth has produced many benefits, its side effects are now producing existential problems that are rapidly getting worse. We can learn from what works at the individual level to overcome addictions to design therapies that may work at the societal scale. The first step to recovery is recognizing the addiction and that it is leading to disaster. However, simply pointing out the dire consequences of our societal addiction can be counterproductive by itself in motivating change. The key next step is creating a truly shared vision of the kind of world we all want. We need to design and test creative ways to implement this societal therapy. The final step is using that shared vision to motivate the changes needed to achieve it, including adaptive transformations of our economic systems, property rights regimes, and governance institutions.
Please see below recording of the webinar.
Prof Barbara Nowak presented a keynote plenary session at ICOPA2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark, during 21-26 August 2022. ICOPA is the official academic event of the World Federation of Parasitologists (WFP) and one of the biggest highlights in parasitology, run every four years.
CMS member Dean Greeno was interviewed in this article about how climate change is affecting the Maireener/rainbow shells and what it means for the Tasmanian aboriginal culture.
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Find out more about Redmap project and how Australia's fishers, divers and other ocean users' information submitted to Redmap has been instrumental in documenting species on the move around Australia's coasts over the past decade. This article, by CMS Director Gretta Pecl, Dr Barrett Wolfe and other collaborators, was published in The Conversation.
* Cover photo: a hairtail blenny submitted by Redmapper Jacob Bradbury. This species is one of the 77(!) moving south that we report on in the article.
The SoE is an independent and evidence-based review, delivered every 5 years as a requirement of the EPBC Act, providing a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the state of Australia’s environment. It aims to help shape policy and action, influence behaviour and assists in assessing our interventions as stewards of the Australian environment.
The Marine chapter of the state of the environment (SoE) report provides an overarching synthesis of the state and trend of Australia’s marine environment, key pressures on the environment, and the management structures that are in place to support the sustainability of the marine environment and marine industries. For the first time, it also aims to integrate Indigenous knowledge and perspectives. It was led by CSIRO-based CMS researchers (acting as independent experts on behalf of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) and written in collaboration with more than 200 marine experts from around Australia, including Traditional Owners.
Key findings from the chapter are that:
Four of the lead authors for the chapter are CMS members (Rowan Trebilco, Mibu Fischer, Karen Evans and Alistair Hobday), and an additional 12 CMS members authored assessments and case studies (i.e. were “contributing authors”): Scott Condie, Anna Farmery, Beth Fulton, Denise Hardesty, Marcus Haward, Mark Hemer, Cayne Layton, Barb Nowak, Em Ogier, Gretta Pecl, David Smith and Chris Wilcox. Ingrid van Putten, Rich Little, Mark Hemer and Jo Vince also contributed as peer reviewers of assessments/case studies.
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This webinar explored climate change adaptation from the cutting-edge science to on-the-ground action. Looking at what is happening locally to adapt to the impacts of climate change and Tasmania’s role in broader programs like the National Environmental Science Program.
This forum was hosted by the patron of National Science Week Tasmania and CMS member, Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas.
Panel:
• Associate Professor Sarah Boulter, Associate Professor in Climate Change Adaptation, University of Tasmania and Climate Adaptation Mission Lead, National Environmental Science Program
• Katrina Graham, Senior Climate Change Officer, Hobart City Council
PhD student Dimuthu Jayakody was the winner of the student award for the best speed talk presentation at the Hawaii Conservation Conference. Di presented the talk "An approach to assessing place attachment toward improving place-based biological conservation and environmental planning efforts". Congratulations Di!!
