Professor Gretta Pecl is a marine ecologist, Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, chair of Redmap Australia and an ARC Future Fellow. If that’s not already impressive enough, Gretta was also a lead author of the recent IPCC sixth assessment report from working group II; Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

After noticing big changes in marine environments in the early 2000s, Professor Pecl became increasingly interested in climate change science and now focuses much of her research on the socio-ecological aspects of climate change and sustainable management of marine resources. More than ever, Gretta is focused on communicating the urgent and crucial science; the changing climate is causing big changes to the ecological fabric of our planet.

This latest IPCC assessment doesn’t paint a rosy picture of our potential future with continued inaction. Every region of the world will be impacted in some way. Every fraction of a degree matters. Every second counts. Gretta runs us through the significant findings.

In this episode we discuss:
• Gretta’s passion for effective science communication and community engagement
• Gretta’s involvement in various projects; Curious Climate, Future Seas and Redmap
• The immense scope and scale of the latest IPCC sixth assessment report
• The increased certainty of climate science findings
• The key takeaways from the latest IPCC report
• Relevant findings and adaptation limits for the Australasian region
• The need to focus on disaster resilience in addition to recovery
• The difference between mitigation and adaptation actions, and why we need both
• The importance of grounded hope and individual actions

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