2023-01-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   16 JANUARY 2023




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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                             16 JANUARY 2023

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              Important terms

              The following definitions have been sourced       include: water insecurity; declining agricultural
              from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate       productivity; increasing infectious diseases,
              Change, the CSIRO and the UK Met Office.          displacement and mental health problems;
              They have been simplified to suit the context     damages to infrastructure and key economic
              and intended audience of this Roadmap             sectors; and changes in ecosystem structure
              document.                                        and functioning, amongst others.
              Climate change: a large-scale, long-term shift    Climate risk: The potential for adverse
              in average weather patterns across the world      consequences resulting from climate change
              as a result of human activities.                  impacts. Risk results from the interaction of
                .               .                 .            vulnerability, exposure, and hazard.
              Climate hazard: Climate-related physical
              events or trends that may cause loss of life,     Exposure: The presence of people,
              injury, or other health impacts, as well as       livelihoods, species or ecosystems,
              damage and loss to property, infrastructure,      environmental functions, services, and
              livelihoods, service provision, ecosystems and    resources, infrastructure, or economic, social
              environmental resources. Hazards can              or cultural assets in places and settings that
              include an increased frequency and intensity      could be adversely affected.
              in heatwaves, droughts, temperatures, fire           Ss                .        .          .
              weather, heavy rainfall, sea level rise, storms,  Resilience: The capacity of social, economic
              coastal erosion and flooding, amongst others.    and environmental systems to cope with a
                                                               climate hazard or disturbance, responding
              Climate impacts: The effects of climate           or reorganising in ways that maintain their
              change on lives, livelihoods, health,             essential function, identity and structure, while
              ecosystems, economies, societies, cultures,      also maintaining the capacity for adaptation,
              services, and infrastructure. This includes       learning and transformation.
              cascading impacts (where one impact                        i                .
              triggers multiple others in a proliferation      Vulnerability: The propensity or
              or snowball effect of interactions) and           predisposition to be adversely affected.
              compounding impacts (where two or more           Vulnerability encompasses a variety of
              impacts occur concurrently to increase          concepts and elements including sensitivity or
              the overall severity of impacts). Examples        susceptibility to harm and lack of capacity
                                                               to cope and adapt.

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