v. 8 February 2018
Tuesday 20th February 2018
Pre-Conference Workshops
Times and Rooms Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington 1.30pm - 5.00pm Ecosystem-based adaption to climate change across the Pacific Facilitators: Paul Blaschke, School of Environment, Geography and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington; David Loubser, Pacific Ecosystem-based Room: MZ05/06 Adaptation to Climate Change Programme - Vanuatu Country Manager, SPREP 2.00pm – 4.30pm Engaging Pacific Islands on SRM geoengineering research Facilitators: Andy Parker, Project Director – SRMGI; Penehuro Lefale, Director - LeA International Room: Z06 Speakers: Douglas MacMartin, Cornell University; Dr Morgan Wairriu, Deputy Director of USP PACE 2.00pm – 4.30pm Climate change media and communication workshop - Supported by New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO Room: RH101 Facilitator: Dacia Herbulock, Senior Media Advisor, Science Media Centre, New Zealand International cooperation after the Paris Agreement. What makes sense for the Pacific? 2.00pm-4.00pm Facilitator: Adrian Macey, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies; Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Room: tbc Wellington
Pre-Conference Public Lecture
Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington, Lecture Theatre 2
5.30pm Law as an Activism Strategy, Julian Aguon, Associate Professor Kapua Sproat, Ani Mikaere- Supported by The New Zealand National Law Foundation
Wednesday 21st February 2018
7.00am – 5.00pm Registration open in Oceania (Level 3) Plenaries Room Amokura Gallery
All seated for the opening ceremony 7:45am Mihi and Opening Ceremony Mana Whenua, Cardinal John Dew, Honourable Minister for Climate Change Issues James Shaw, Mayor of Wellington Justin Lester, 8.00am – 9.00 am Prof Vice Chancellor Grant Guilford, Nina Nawalowalo and The Conch Theatre 9.00am – 9.45am Opening Keynote Address Honourable Tuila‘epa Dr Sa‘ilele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa
9.45am – 10.30am Keynote Address Prof Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University 10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea in Oceania (Level 3)
Concurrent Sessions Adaptation 1: Adaptation strategies Reports from Pacific Island Session Science 1: Modelling and impacts across the Politics of climate change Delegates Pacific Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 INVITED SPEAKER: Global Public Climate change adaptation as a response to Pivotal players: Pacific islands and the Goods and Climate Change: vulnerability reduction: a critical examination 11.00am – 11.15am end of the fossil fuel era Wesley implications for the Pacific David of the role of aid agencies in Timor-Leste Morgan Frame Hannah Barrowman & Mahendra Kumar Climate change adaptation amongst Samoan Earth System Modelling for the Deep tourism operators: reflections on the role of Sea Change: A new politics of climate 11.15am – 11.30am South National Science Challenge culture and traditional in Aotearoa Mike Williams governance structures in the process of Bronwyn Hayward adaptation Meg Parsons Climate change impacts on islands are The drivers and victims of New Tau leo mai i Niue: Voices from Niue in 11.30am – 11.45am complicated: Evaluating 1.5°C vs 2°C in Zealand’s fossil fuel industry Hear from some of the 18 response to climate change Jessica Pasisi Pacific SIDS Liz Dovey Catherine Cheung & Jean Kahui representatives attending from the Pacific Islands The role of anthropogenic forcing in Living with Change (LivC): A Strategy and extreme rainfall during early March 11.45am – 12.00pm Implementation Plan for Enhancing the 2014 in Christchurch, New Zealand Resilience of Tokelau Cheryl Anderson INVITED SPEAKER: Fighting in the Benjamin Nistor courts for a safe climate Sarah Rapid assessment of local dredging Climate change implications for tropical Thomson impacts along the coastal waters of Pacific habitats and fisheries: 12.00pm – 12.15pm Fuailoloo Village, Samoa Taema Imo- vulnerability and adaptation options Seuoti Johanna E. Johnson Indigenous peoples’ climate change 12.15pm – 12.30pm Discussion claims Michael Discussion Sharp & Nicole Smith 12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch in Oceania (Level 3)
Wednesday 21st February 2018 PM
Plenary
Room Amokura Gallery
1.30pm – 2.15pm Keynote Address Prof Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University
Concurrent Sessions Science 2: Sea level and oceanic Adaptation 2: Ecosystems and The Role of Art in Making Sense of Mitigation Session change resources I Climate Crises Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 INVITED SPEAKER: Rising global sea INVITED SPEAKER: Two An investigation into the access to clean levels and the importance of the Paris Environmental Sculpture Projects Aim 2.20pm – 2.35pm water in Kiribati John Edwards & Arwa Al- INVITED SPEAKER Seeking hope in Climate Agreement for Pacific Nations to Help Mitigate Climate Change Bahadly the Anthropocene: Tim Naish Chris Booth How humankind might achieve deep An overview of the NZ CARIM (Coastal sustainability Rod Oram Acidification: Rate, Impacts and Effective coastal resource management is INVITED SPEAKER: Mary Shelley’s 2.35pm – 2.50pm Management) programme, with critical for climate change adaptation in the Frankenstein and the Summer of 1816 emphasis on Greenshell™ mussel Pacific David Welch Heidi Thomson resilience research Norman Ragg INVITED SPEAKER: Engaging Reefs, Rock and Rubble: Disparate zones Pacific Islands on SRM Things you didn't know about tropical of coral-reef condition in Port Vila reflect Project IKA: Co-collecting Climate geoengineering research Penehuro 2.50pm – 3.05pm corals and why we should protect them varied exposure to anthropogenic and Change in Tokelau Rachel Yates Lefale Annette Bolton natural factors Aimée Komugabe-Dixson The 2030 Agenda & the Paris Responding to the impacts of climate The Art of Resistance (and showing a Agreement: Advancing Human Rights Sea level trends in the North Pacific change and environmental pressures on 3.05pm – 3.20pm music video Reverse Resistance) & Adaptation Through Hokulea Ocean Kai-Ho Cheng Port Vila ecosystems and communities Makerita Urale Message of Malama Honu Joshua Paul Blaschke Cooper Sustainability of marine resources: Past A Snail's Pace: Can policy and Designing ecosystem-based adaptation climatic events and the impacts on Economate: Life beyond landfill Katy physiological research protect 3.20pm – 3.35pm projects – a case study of Tanna Island, spawning patterns of Eunice Viridis Cottrell abalone/pāua from climate change? Vanuatu Daniel Ware Richard Crichton Alyssa Frederick A New Way in Niue. Samoa: reaching 100% fossil fuel Perspectives on oceanic change and A resilient and ecological architectural 3.35pm – 3.50pm Q & A offset using sustainable local threats across the Pacific Kosi Latu response Anthony Freddie resources Ian Shearer
3.50pm – 4.20pm Afternoon tea in Oceania (Level 3)
Wednesday 21st February 2018 PM
Concurrent Sessions
Session Science 3: Climate variability and Adaptation 3: Risk, Hazards, and Adaptation and Religion Waka Session 1 prediction responses Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 Exploring sustainable alternatives to INVITED SPEAKER: Drought, flood mass migration: lessons learned from Adaptation to Climate change in Pacific Island 4.20pm- 4.35pm and sea level rise: climate change low-lying islands in the Philippines Ma. Countries Graham Hassall and the Pacific James Renwick Laurice Jamero & Richard Crichton If it's not risk informed, it's not The co-production of natural hazard sustainable: harnessing local Land Acquisition as a Tool for Facilitating 4.35pm- 4.50pm impact forecasting in the Pacific development decisions to address Retreat from Rising Seas: Perspectives from Indigenous navigators speak on Kate Crowley climate risk in the Pacific region Adelaide, South Australia John Watson ocean health and climate crisis Rebecca Mcnaught Delivering on the Global Framework Adaptation for changing and dynamic Climate change and the French South Pacific 4.50pm – 5.05pm for Climate Services in the Pacific climate risks Judy overseas territories: what are the French policy Speakers to include: Alan Porteous Lawrence and action plan? Christian Dadomo Schannel van Dijken (Samoan Perceptions of Community, Voyaging Society and The South Pacific Convergence Responsibility, and Risk among Pacific INVITED SPEAKER: Adaptation to Sea Level Conservation International) 5.05pm- 5.20pm Zone and South Pacific Climate, Island Climate Change Professionals: Rise in NZ Law Catherine Iorns Magallanes Past and Future Tom Harvey Implications for Adaptation Laura Brewington SPREP Forecast-based Financing of disaster Climate Change and Churches in Tonga: 5.20pm – 5.35pm preparedness in the Pacific: Challenges Factors Hampering a Unified Response and opportunities Tricia Wilden Laiseni Liavaa
A religious and moral perspective on Climate Discussion Tim Grafton (Chief Executive 5.35pm – 5.50pm change in NZ and the Pacific John Howell & Insurance Council of NZ) John Kleinsman Pasifika Conference Dinner
7pm - Late Te Marae (Level 4- Te Papa Tongarewa)
Thursday 22nd February 2018
8.00am – 5.00pm Registration open in Oceania (Level 3)
Plenaries
Room Amokura Gallery
8.30am – 9.15am Keynote Address Dr Patila Malua-Amosa, Dean, Faculty of Science, National University of Samoa
9.15am – 10.00am Keynote Address Prof Dan Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University 10.00am – 10.30am Morning Tea in Oceania (Level 3) Concurrent Sessions Materials for Climate Change Economic and financial challenges Indigenous Voices, Youth and Session Adaptation 4: Community engagement Remediation 1 Resistance The MacDiarmid Institute Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 “Neither rain nor snow nor heat” – Lessons Global Youth Responses to Climate for Aotearoa from the U.S. Postal Service’s 10.30am – 10.45am Change Joshua Thompson, Jasveen Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Matt Brar & Cade Terada Raeburn Co-designing a youth learning centre Materials to enable the solar Climate change finance challenges in revolution Justin Hodgkiss the Pacific Espen Ronneberg with youth in Betio, Kiribati: covert Local Communities Lead the Way: 10.45am – 11.00am adaptation through inspirational Adaptation and mitigation to climate change architecture Rebecca Kiddle, David in the Pacific Teresa Thorp & Tim Baice Kakiakia, Amiria Kiddle & Rick Steele
Epistemologies of Environmental Accessing and managing climate Change in the Pacific: Indigenous Design the Solar Cells of the Future 11.00am – 11.15am Increased renewable energy in Pacific change finance in the Pacific region Knowledges, Science and Policy John Joshua Sutton Islands can enhance resilience Tony Weir Lisa Buggy Overton Climate change and the New Zealand wine At the Very Edge of a Storm: The industry: Winegrower perspectives on 11.15am – 11.30am Indigenous Voices Hemaima Wiremu Impact of a Distant Cyclone on Atoll impacts and adaptation Alyssa Ryan & Islands Tauisi Taupo Kelli Archie Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen, the ultimate ‘green’ fuel, from water Training tomorrow’s climate leaders: Making sense of societal transformations in Sally Brooker Adapting Trade: Climate Change and University of California Irvine’s Climate 11.30am – 11.45am view of climate change: examples from a Commerce in the Pacific Genevieve Action Training Program Alyssa focus group study in Fiji Victoria Wibeck Neilson Frederick Fungal Diseases and Climate Change Resilience and Councils – what local 11.45am – 12.00pm Discussion – New tools to study hyphal invasion government can do Celia Wade-Brown Volker Nock Arti Prasad 12.00pm – 12.45pm Lunch in Oceania (Level 3)
Thursday 22nd February 2018 PM
Plenary Room Amokura Gallery
12.45pm – 1.30pm Keynote Address Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Distinguished Fellow, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington Keynote Address Julian Aguon, Founder of Blue Ocean Law & Dr Kapua Sproat, Acting Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law and the 1.30pm – 2.15pm Director of the Environmental Law Clinic, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Concurrent Sessions Materials for Climate Change Migration and Displacement Law 1: Paris Agreement and Adaptation 5: Pacific Community Session Remediation 2 international Law on climate change Resilience The MacDiarmid Institute Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 Climate change, migration and Community Resilience in Vanuatu: displacement in the pacific: 2.20pm – 2.35pm Integrated and financially sustainable perspectives from the red cross red coastal management Rowan Dixon crescent movement Ezekiel The role of non-state actors after the What we do when the sun doesn’t Simperingham Paris Agreement Adrian Macey shine Thomas Nann Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Climate-induced migration: where to Change in Fisheries Communities and 2.35pm – 2.50pm from here for Pacific nations? Safua Fisheries Resources in Micronesia Cheryl Akeli Anderson From Paris to the Pacific Islands - What Climate change challenges to does the Paris Agreement on Climate Pacific Views on Community Resilience to 2.50pm – 3.05pm Aluminium ion batteries Shalini Divya society and culture in Pacific Island Change mean for the Pacific Islands? Disasters Cristina Parra countries Tony Weir Ian McGregor Strengthening resilience to climate change Negotiating a climate consensus, and in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories: 3.05pm – 3.20pm regional coalition behaviour of Pacific lessons-learnt from the RESCCUE project Island states Salā George Carter Climate Change Observations in the Jean-baptiste Marre Pacific Hon Aupito Tofae Su’a Sio Climate Change and Kaitiakitanga in CO2 sequestering Shane Telfer 3.20pm – 3.35pm Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa (New Zealand) Jenny Ritchie Discussion The Link between Environmental Combatting climate change through The role of climate change and ecosystem services in the migration 3.35pm – 3.50pm Degradation and Climate Disruption in the technology – the role of decisions of Marshallese Islanders Pacific Szilvia Csevár superconductivity Stuart Wimbush Juno Fitzpatrick 3.50pm – 4.20pm Afternoon tea in Oceania (Level 3)
Thursday 22nd February 2018 PM
Concurrent Sessions Law 2: International Law responses Adaptation 6: Tools and engagement for The Role of Art in Making the Session Waka Session 2 to climate issues adaptation Invisible Visible Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 Ocean Acidification Post-Paris: Moving from Phase One to Two: Visualising and performing climate Gauging Law and Policy Responses in Mātauranga Māori, Art, Design, Ecological change: Pacific artists' imagery of 4.20pm- 4.35pm Light of Emerging Scientific Projections Economics and Climate Change Science climate change Meg Parsons & Cilla Cecilia Engler Huhana Smith Brown
Art, Climate Complexity and Gender, Renewable Energy Systems Co-creating Visual Tools for Adaptation 4.35pm- 4.50pm Communities: The Unseen Gabby and Climate Change Riyad Mucadam Action Stephen Flood O'Connor Indigenous navigators speak on INVITED SPEAKER: Future Bases for Co-production of climate research for ocean health and climate crisis Action to Protect LowLying Atoll Nations resource management: The role of 4.50pm – 5.05pm Alberto Costi intermediate-modelers in translating Speakers to include: downscaled climate data in the Pacific Islands Victoria Keener Le Ta Va'a - Our Canoe John Misky Shaping a Safe Climate Future: The (Mata O Ali'i Trust) The Global Pact for Environment: Role of the Arts Sarah Meads, Carla Peia Patai (Okeanos Foundation) Manase Beach Replenishment Savai’i, 5.05pm- 5.20pm Organizing to Realize Earth & Human van Zon, Gabby O'Connor & Mīria Samoa Peter Quilter Raihania Tipoki (Te Matau a Rights in Oceania Joshua Cooper George Maui) The Insufficiencies of International Law: Tina Ngata (Ta Matau a Maui) How contemporary legal frameworks A conceptual framework for resilient 5.20pm – 5.35pm and climate change threaten Pacific development in the Pacific Islands Viliamu sovereignty, statehood and exclusive Iese economic zones Kya Lal
Poster Presentation Reception 5.35pm – 7.00pm Oceania
Public Lecture Amokura Gallery
7.00pm - 8.30pm Michael Mann in conversation with Kim Hill
Friday 23rd February 2018
8.00am – 4.20pm Registration open in Oceania (Level 3)
Plenaries
Room Amokura Gallery
9.00am – 9.45am Keynote Address Prof Elisabeth Holland, Professor of Climate Change, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South Pacific
9.45am – 10.30am Keynote Address Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Independent Researcher 10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea in Oceania (Level 3) Concurrent Sessions Activism 1: Adaptation and Adaptation 7: Ecosystems and Open session Session Maori approaches Resistance Possibilities resources II Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Rangimarie 2&3 Exploring the livelihood outcomes of Consciousness and social Climate Change and Churches in planned relocation through two case 11.00am – 11.15am transformation Catherine Tonga: Factors Hampering a Unified studies from Vanua Levu, Fiji Annah Murupaenga-Ikenn Climate resilient Māori land investment Response Laiseni Liavaa Piggott-mckellar decisions to enhance prosperity Shaun Collective Action on Climate - Election Awatere, Tui Warmenhoven & Pia The multiple roles of Blue Carbon 2017: Experience from the Aid Coalition Pohatu Ecosystem-based adaptation planning Habitat management in assisting 11.15am – 11.30am Campaign Paula Feehan, Carsten on the garden island of Taveuni, Fiji Pacific countries address their Bockemuehl, Murray Sheard & Shona Herman Timmermans Nationally Determined Contributions Jennings David Loubser
Nā Waʻa Mauō, Canoe Sustainability: Urutau: How Māori coastal papakainga Utilising Marine Protected Areas to Perpetuating our kupuna practices recognise indigenous self-determination Facilitate Climate Change Adaptation: Acting in Times of Disaster: The 11.30am – 11.45am using outrigger canoes in marine and build capacity to the effects of climate Tales from the Pacific Achinthi sources and technical medium of resource management change Sophia Olo-Whaanga Vithanage information that people trust Ioana Hokuokahalelani Pihana, Qiyamah Chan Mow Williams & Rosa Motta He Korowai o Matainaka/The cloak of Factors influencing the outcomes of Matainaka. Traditional Ecological climate change adaptation projects in Addressing climate change in Tongan 11.45am – 12.00pm Knowledge in climate change adaptation the Pacific Island Countries: A secondary schools Elisapesi Havea INVITED SPEAKER Youth, climate Lynette Carter metaanalysis Syezlin Hasan change and the future of learning Anya Pacific engagement and the Gender, culture, and the SDGs: what Bukholt-payne Framework for Resilient Development this means for the 10-year-old girl on 12.00pm – 12.15pm in the Pacific (FRDP), Tagaloa Tanna island (Vanuatu) Rachel Cooper-Halo England Discussion 12.15pm – 12.30pm Geothermal resource potential of the Pacific Islands: opportunities for Discussion sustainable development Greg Discussion Bignall 12.30pm – 1.15pm Lunch in Oceania (Level 3)
Friday 23rd February 2018 PM
Plenary Room Amokura Gallery
Keynote Address Mana Wahine Panel- Associate Professor Leonie Pihama, Dr Naomi Simmonds, Assistant Professor Tłaliłila’ogwa (Sarah Hunt), Associate Professor 1.15pm – 2.15pm Huhana Smith Concurrent Sessions Session Climate Change and the Media Adaptation 8: Adaptation and engineering Security Issues Room Amokura Gallery Rangimarie 1 Icon Ecosystem-based adaptation projects for Port Vila and Honiara to address Melanesia’s wicked urban resilience Climate Change and State Sovereignty: A Security 2.20pm- 2.35pm INVITED SPEAKER Climate change and the challenges issue for Tuvalu Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson media: a reporter's perspective Jamie Morton Paul Blaschke & Beth Toki Critical Infrastructure Resilience to Climate Change - Climate change: magnifying threats to human security 2.35pm- 2.50pm Lessons Learned from the Pacific Bapon Fakhruddin and peace in the South Pacific James Cox Bearing Witness 2017: Phase 2 of a Pacific Public Response to Climate Engineering in the Global Climate crisis, corporate imaginaries and creative self- 2.50pm – 3.05pm climate change journalism project case study South Pam Feetham destruction Christopher Wright David Robie Maintaining Self-Determination in Climate Change 3.05pm- 3.20pm Communicating Climate Futures Shaun Hendy Development of guidance for coastal protection works in Relocation Nathan Ross The role of Pacific media in the Voice of the Pacific island countries Tom Shand & Matt Blacka Connecting Climate Change and Militarisation in the 3.20pm – 3.35pm Pacific at FCCC Nanette Woonton Marianas Archipelago Sylvia Frain 3.35pm – 3.50pm Staying Afloat in Paradise: Climate change journalism in the Pacific Lagipoiva Cherelle Discussion Discussion Jackson 3.50pm – 4.45pm Conference Closure and Next Steps: Kosi Latu, Director General of Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP); Prof James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography, Victoria University of Wellington
Farewell Blessing - Mana Whenua
Posters (in Oceania – Level 3)
Cheryl Anderson Reaching for the Paris Agreement Intended Nationally Determined Contributions: Observations from Tokelau
Erik Behrens Seasonal to interannual variability of the Subtropical Front around New Zealand
Chris Bone OceansWatch New Zealand
Katy Cottrell Economate: Life beyond landfill
Chung-Ru Ho Effects of Climate Variability on the Sea Level Change in the North Pacific Ocean
Eryn Hooper Empowering communities to adapt to climate change: Monitoring marine ecosystems using a locally developed method to inform community-based management
Ushana Jayasuriya Non Ideal Theory in Climate Change Agreements
Siosinamele Lui Combining Traditional Knowledge and Meteorological Forecasts in the Pacific to Increase Community Resilience to Extreme Climatic Events
Epenesa Olo-Whaanga The psychology of human adaptation to climate change: A case study from Samoa
Jane Rovins Disaster and Climate Change – How do we make resilience work?
Jocelyn Turnbull Determination of urban CO2 emissions
Tony Weir Climate change challenges to society and culture in Pacific Island countries
Mike Williams Simulating the climate of the South Pacific with the NZESM; the New Zealand Earth System Model
Guang Zeng Tropical Circulation and Precipitation Response to Ozone Depletion and Recovery