What does the latest IPCC report mean for Australia’s co-operatives and mutual sector?

Invitation only – BCCM member event

The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the sixth in a series of reports which assess scientific, technical, and socio-economic information concerning climate change. The first release of the report in August covers the physical science. It is the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

This webinar will cover:

• What are the latest scientific findings and implications for Australia? – presented by Michael Grose of CSIRO
• What are the potential implications for the co-operatives and mutual sector? – presented by Rade Musulin of Finity Consulting

There will be ample time for Q & A, chaired by Sharanjit Paddam of Finity Consulting.

Please email the BCCM to attend this member webinar.

Speakers 

Michael Grose

Michael Grose is a research scientist at CSIRO, and is an IPCC Sixth Assessment Lead Author on the Atlas chapter and Interactive Atlas tool (and contributing author to Chapters 1, 10, 11 and 12). Michael works in the area of climate and climate change, understanding processes driving past and future climate changes, attribution of change and in producing climate projections for the future in Australia and the Pacific. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and communication products on climate.

Rade Musulin

Rade Musulin is a Principal at Finity Consulting in Sydney, Australia, focusing on extreme events and climate risk. Previously he served as the Chief Executive Officer of FBAlliance Insurance, Chief Operating Officer of Aon Benfield Analytics Asia Pacific, and Vice President Operations, Public Affairs, and Reinsurance for the Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies.

Rade serves as Convenor of the Actuaries Institute of Australia Climate Change Working Group, Vice-Chair of the International Actuarial Association’s Resource and Environment Forum, and was Vice President – Casualty for the American Academy of Actuaries from 2016 – 2018.

His main areas of interest include how changing population demographics affect catastrophe exposure, climate change adaptation, applications of catastrophe models for disaster planning in developing countries, building code development, and community resilience. Rade has maintained close ties with academic institutions, including being a lecturer for undergraduate classes in actuarial science, risk management, and political science.