The discussion outlined in this roundtable summary document highlights that the bar on climate risks continues to rise for Australian company directors, investors and regulators. It also suggests there is strong support for accelerated action on climate change and a new national mission to address climate risk and opportunity.

This paper argues that while it is not entirely clear what the exact effects of climate change will be on the low-lying atoll countries of the South Pacific, it is likely that rising sea levels, driven at least in part by climate change, will weaken food and water security.

This paper explores how knowledge of global climate change is re-scaled to local levels through city making discourses and practices such as municipal carbon accounting, and conversely how local experiments in low carbon transitions are framed as mobile and replicable solutions to a suite of urban and climate related issues.

This paper has reviewed relevant literature and developed a conceptual framework to explore the complexity of climate experiments and the importance of city networks to achieve larger climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes.

Illustrating the trend to increasing vulnerability, this paper examines two case studies, South Eastern Australia and California USA, examines the potential effectiveness of land use planning as a means of reducing bushfire risk and argues the need for anticipatory planning to prevent an expansion of settlement into bushfire prone areas.