Registrations are open for the June SA Climate Ready Regions Webinars.
At 3.30pm each Thursday during June you will be able to join these 60-75 minute webinars.
Held in partnership with the Adaptation Practitioners Network who share and showcase climate resilience work being undertaken across South Australia.
Climate Ready - Sustainable Living (Webinar)
This webinar will focus on community, business and corporate responses as the stakes are massive and uncertainties severe and impacts devastating. Our interactions with environmental and non‐environmental issues come from varying levels. New ways of problem‐solving are evolving and the interlinking of thinking across corporate business and community can be complex. This webinar will provide some tangible examples and information around the integration of thinking and actioning.
Mark Robinson Townsville City Council QLD Coordinator – Environmental Systems, Sustainability Solutions and Solar Cities Topic “Integrating and amplifying sustainability and resilience: A community-business framework for collaboration, learning, innovation and action” and Dr Mark Siebentritt Director and General Manager, South Australia Edge Environment Topic “What does the corporate response to climate change mean for climate ready regions?”
Presenters:
Mark Robinson Townsville City Council Coordinator – Environmental Systems, Sustainability Solutions and Solar Cities Topic “Integrating and amplifying sustainability and resilience: A community-business framework for collaboration, learning, innovation and action” Born and bred in North Qld Mark grew up in a small coal mining country town and moved to Townsville to study ecology, physical sciences, business and economics. He fell in love with Townsville – a big country town with coral reefs at the front door and tropical savanna at the back, wetlands to the east and rainforests to the west. This living laboratory inspired Mark to adapt and integrate his understanding of complex dynamic natural systems to building a tropical sustainable urban city; by being on-ground, in the community, at the base-level by working in Local Government. Townsville City Council continues to build and foster a whole-of-community-business collaborative framework for action that works to communicate about sustainability in ways that matter to the community. Mark works with a team of super-ninjas integrating and amplifying city-wide Sustainability and Resilience across businesses, government, residents, schools and industry.
Dr Mark Siebentritt Director and General Manager, South Australia Edge Environment Topic “What does the corporate response to climate change mean for climate ready regions?” Mark is a Director of Edge Environment and General Manager for South Australia where his focus is on Climate Change Response Planning, Strategy and Engagement. He has worked across the public, private and research sectors for the past 20 years. Mark’s focus is on bringing together rigorous science and creative engagement processes to deliver leading-edge planning and implementation approaches. He has either led or collaborated on over 65 climate change projects in the last 5 years. Mark has and/or is currently working on climate change projects in the ACT, Queensland, NSW, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, and nationally for NCCARF. Since 2013, Mark has worked on climate change risk projects in all regions of South Australia.