Transport is a significant contributor to Canberra’s greenhouse gas emissions. With low urban density, Canberra has become highly car-dependent with low uptake of public transport.

• What are the dimensions of Canberra’s transport systems in relation to climate change?
• What role does urban design play and what room do we have to move here?
• How can the principles of ‘integrated transport’ best be realised?
• What can we do in the short term and how do we factor in longer term needs and possibilities?
• How can policy makers, planners, developers, business people and the community work
• together to improve our transport systems?

This Canberra Conversation will seek to unravel the complexities of this topic and stimulate innovative ways forward.

Speakers

Dr Janet Salisbury from A Chorus of Women and Professor Will Steffen from the ANU Climate Change Institute.

Information
See: http://www.chorusofwomen.org/

RSVP: hoffie@iinet.net.au

Photo: by Shin Yau Yeam - ANU Student entry in the Capture: Climate Change Impacts Photographic Competition.

Caption: Recycle is not quite the word to be used here but reuse is. While the scrap metal from the car is not recycled, it has instead became a home for some beautiful floras. And no one would argue that it talks a lot more time and effort to convert a car into a creative natural habitat than selling it off.