As the impacts of climate change increase as global warming continues, decision makers, especially in land use planning, are having to consider how their land use decisions are consistent with the need to adapt to these changes. The NELA Climate Change Working Group has completed a project that identified legal case studies where decisions by decision makers have either been challenged on the basis that adaptation to climate change have been inadequately or inappropriately addressed, or cases that support climate change adaption action.

This webinar, jointly presented by EIANZ and NELA, will present examples of these legal case studies and discuss the implications for planners and decision makers. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the outcomes of this work and suggest other legal case studied that can add to the knowledge in the climate change adaptation decision making space.

This event will run off Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) and will run for 1 hour. The webinar will be recorded and a link to the webinar will be sent to all registered attendees in the days after the webinar. NELA members please contact events@eianz.org to obtain the member rate.

Meet the speaker

Garry Middle | Director of VisionEnvironment

Dr Garry Middle is the Director of the VisionEnvironment, a small environmental planning consultancy specialising in EIA, policy analysis, biodiversity offsetting, climate change adaptation planning, coastal planning and open space planning, and is an associate at Curtin University. Garry has over 30 years experience in environment planning, sustainability planning, coastal planning, policy and governance, open space planning, environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and climate change governance.

He has worked with State and Local governments, consulting and as an academic. Before joining Curtin in June 2008, Dr Middle was the Appeals Convenor for the WA Minister for Environment and prior to that was Director, Environment and Natural Resource Planning, at Department of Planning and Infrastructure. He also worked for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) - the peak environmental agency in WA - for over 15 years. Garry was, until last year, an independent member of the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) which is the statutory authority with statewide responsibilities for urban, rural and regional land use planning and land development matters. Dr Middle also chaired WA’s peak coastal planning and management authority, the Coastal Planning and Coordination Council.

Dr Middle is also the chair of Great Victoria Desert Biodiversity Trust, an independent Trust fund dedicated to funding research and on-ground works in the Great Victoria Desert. The Trust was established and funded by the proponent of the Tropicana Gold Mine as an offset for its impacts on matters of National Environmental Significance.

This webinar will be facilated by Michael Chilcott HLMEIANZ | Commissioner, Independent Planning Commission of NSW and Former Commissioner, Land and Environment Court of NSW.

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