Mike Copage
@copage.bsky.social
Head - Climate & Security Policy Centre with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Formerly Govt 🇨🇦 climate mitigation & adaptation plans/policy
Formerly Govt 🇨🇦 climate mitigation & adaptation plans/policy
I'm incredibly grateful to my workshop partners and their staff in making this come together - as well as the panelists, facilitators, and participants for their insights and contributions, and the Embassy of Ireland to Australia, and the Ambassador, for their support and his motivating remarks.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I'm incredibly grateful to my workshop partners and their staff in making this come together - as well as the panelists, facilitators, and participants for their insights and contributions, and the Embassy of Ireland to Australia, and the Ambassador, for their support and his motivating remarks.
A more detailed summary of the workshop, and discussions it sparked, will be made available in the coming weeks.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A more detailed summary of the workshop, and discussions it sparked, will be made available in the coming weeks.
I am both hopeful and have renewed energy to work among our partners to advance these conversations in the years to come - and should #COP31 be hosted by Australia and Pacific partners, I look forward to working together to shine a light on the solutions we need and must implement rapidly.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I am both hopeful and have renewed energy to work among our partners to advance these conversations in the years to come - and should #COP31 be hosted by Australia and Pacific partners, I look forward to working together to shine a light on the solutions we need and must implement rapidly.
This is not just possible, but necessary, to match the borderless nature of compounding and cascading risks we are all facing.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is not just possible, but necessary, to match the borderless nature of compounding and cascading risks we are all facing.
My takeaway was that by advancing awareness and sharing the expertise each community, country, and region has developed on its own to these challenges, our response to the risks posed by climate change can be more than the sum of our parts.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
My takeaway was that by advancing awareness and sharing the expertise each community, country, and region has developed on its own to these challenges, our response to the risks posed by climate change can be more than the sum of our parts.
Our workshop helped bridge understanding between both shared and distinct sources of risk and resilience across these regions. Rather than leave empty-handed, we developed roadmaps for action in our region that can build on the substantial momentum and practical solutions being advanced globally.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Our workshop helped bridge understanding between both shared and distinct sources of risk and resilience across these regions. Rather than leave empty-handed, we developed roadmaps for action in our region that can build on the substantial momentum and practical solutions being advanced globally.
Perhaps nowhere are these preventative and resilience-building solutions more complex, diverse, and needed than across the breadth of Asia and the Pacific.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Perhaps nowhere are these preventative and resilience-building solutions more complex, diverse, and needed than across the breadth of Asia and the Pacific.
It's easy to get stuck admiring the substantial risks #climate disruption poses to global peace and security, to paraphrase remarks shared earlier this month by the Ambassador of Ireland to Australia Tim Mawe. As he so rightly noted, we have to get on with solutions.
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's easy to get stuck admiring the substantial risks #climate disruption poses to global peace and security, to paraphrase remarks shared earlier this month by the Ambassador of Ireland to Australia Tim Mawe. As he so rightly noted, we have to get on with solutions.
That includes making sure future assessments and plans grapple with complex, cross-border risks - much as we identified in our recent report exploring a stress-testing climate scenario for Indonesia in 2035: www.aspi.org.au/report/indon...
Indonesia in 2035: Climate risks to security in the Indo-Pacific - ASPI
By Michael Copage, Dr Robert Glasser, Isabelle BondThe Indo-Pacific region is particularly exposed to climate impacts, and Indonesia, like many countries, will be severely affected by climate impacts in the decade to come. The effects of climate-amplified disasters, combined with the political, social and economic consequences of climate impacts originating from within and across the […]
www.aspi.org.au
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That includes making sure future assessments and plans grapple with complex, cross-border risks - much as we identified in our recent report exploring a stress-testing climate scenario for Indonesia in 2035: www.aspi.org.au/report/indon...
None of this needs to reinvent the wheel - I am looking forward to digging into the National Climate Risk Assessment once it is fully released! - but the bar needs to keep rising in future.
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
None of this needs to reinvent the wheel - I am looking forward to digging into the National Climate Risk Assessment once it is fully released! - but the bar needs to keep rising in future.
Crucially, no government should think a single assessment of adaptation plan is sufficient. Our awareness of risks grows as the science develops, and the intensity of impacts rises with every failure to reduce global emissions.
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Crucially, no government should think a single assessment of adaptation plan is sufficient. Our awareness of risks grows as the science develops, and the intensity of impacts rises with every failure to reduce global emissions.
A regular statement on climate risks and plans, in every Government's mandate, ensures public awareness and governance remains fresh and relevant. While Governments have to grapple with many concurrent strategic challenges, climate disruption is sadly a reality for ours and many generations to come.
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A regular statement on climate risks and plans, in every Government's mandate, ensures public awareness and governance remains fresh and relevant. While Governments have to grapple with many concurrent strategic challenges, climate disruption is sadly a reality for ours and many generations to come.
My recommendations build on many have already called for. The next Government should:
· Legislate regular climate risk assessments and adaptation plans, with a biennial statement to Parliament;
· Centralize climate risk governance in PM&C;
· Release public versions of existing assessments asap.
· Legislate regular climate risk assessments and adaptation plans, with a biennial statement to Parliament;
· Centralize climate risk governance in PM&C;
· Release public versions of existing assessments asap.
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My recommendations build on many have already called for. The next Government should:
· Legislate regular climate risk assessments and adaptation plans, with a biennial statement to Parliament;
· Centralize climate risk governance in PM&C;
· Release public versions of existing assessments asap.
· Legislate regular climate risk assessments and adaptation plans, with a biennial statement to Parliament;
· Centralize climate risk governance in PM&C;
· Release public versions of existing assessments asap.
There's lots of road to travel, very quickly, before COP31 if it goes ahead here - and progress to make on this approach so that it's a success. This wasn't a great start, and it's important to call that out so that similar decisions are avoided down the track.
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
There's lots of road to travel, very quickly, before COP31 if it goes ahead here - and progress to make on this approach so that it's a success. This wasn't a great start, and it's important to call that out so that similar decisions are avoided down the track.
Some thoughts here from myself and Blake Johnson on how any Australian Government should approach COP31 post-election - both that it is in Australia's strategic interests, and that those interests are primarily in strengthening relationships with the Pacific.
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Some thoughts here from myself and Blake Johnson on how any Australian Government should approach COP31 post-election - both that it is in Australia's strategic interests, and that those interests are primarily in strengthening relationships with the Pacific.