Climate Change - Managing the Unavoidable, Avoiding the Unmanageable (Full)
Channel: The Royal Society of Victoria
Date: 2020-08-14

That climate change is happening and that it is influenced by human activity are two undeniable facts. Professor David Karoly here demonstrates that a 2 degree (Celsius) rise in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels is now essentially unavoidable, yet manageable through high-priority adaptation measures, and explores the extent to which we can still mitigate a further, catastrophic rise in global temperatures by the end of the century through an urgent and much faster transition to a zero carbon economy, with Australia accepting its leadership responsibilities as a developed nation under the UNFCCC.

Filmed with the support of Victoria's Inspiring Australia Program, in partnership with the Victorian Division of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

10 minute digest available at https://youtu.be/6du8GeRbgTI

Filmed by Robert Cross.
Interview: Mike Flattley