Western Australia's Response to the Threat of Climate Change - Bill Hare

Presented by the Royal Society of WA
Bill will discuss climate change and international agreements and what they mean for Western Australia and Australia
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Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years’ experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics. Bill has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989 including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Throughout this time, he supported international and regional scientific assessment processes, including the IPCC to the present time.

Bill was Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He led the influential World Bank Turn Down the Heat reports series in 2013-2014, and authored, or co-authored, many peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals.

Since the late 1980s, Bill contributed to the development of international climate science and policy and participated in the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement in 2015. He contributed to IPCC reports and was lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report. He developed expertise in the physical basis of climate change, climate impacts and the policy and economic responses to the problem. Bill co-founded the not-for-profit climate science thinktank, Climate Analytics (2008), which has become very successful. Headquartered in Berlin, it now has offices in several countries, including Perth.

In his talk, Bill will discuss climate change within the global context and narrow it down to the WA context. He will discuss the 1.5 Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal, Net zero and the politics of 1.5. He will continue with how we can get to a 1.5 pathway from where we are now, what net zero targets mean for Australia, 1.5 compatible energy transformation for WA, and the role of natural gas in this context. He will end with the COP26 outcomes and what it means for Australia.