One Year After the Garnaut Climate Change Review (Booked out)
Professor Ross Garnaut presented the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 September 2008, the morning of the largest ever one day points fall on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, the histories of the financial crisis and climate change policy have been closely linked. Amongst much else, they have been linked by the challenge that Governments have faced, in Australia, in the United States and elsewhere, in formulating policy in the national interest alongside an extraordinary presence of vested interests in the policy making process. This lecture will analyse the past year’s history of policy-making on climate change in this difficult context, and assess the prospects of the world developing a satisfactory response to the risks of dangerous human-induced climate change.
Professor Ross Garnaut AO is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and a Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, at the University of Melbourne as well as a Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University.
Professor Garnaut is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
In addition to his distinguished academic career, Professor Garnaut has also had longstanding and successful roles as policy advisor, diplomat and businessman. He was the Senior Economic Adviser to Australian Prime Minister R.J.L. Hawke from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently served as the Australian Ambassador to China, 1985 to 1988.
Hosted by the ANU Emeritus Faculty and RAPlink, this Lecture is part of the Toyota-ANU Public Lecture Series 2009. It is free and open to the public, registration is essential. Please register attendance with ANU Events. Refreshments will follow the lecture.
Please note there is limited availability of parking at ANU and guests should consider alternative forms of transport or allow sufficient time to find appropriate parking. This event is expected to be very popular so we ask that guests are seated at least 5 minutes prior to the commencement time. When there is a long waiting list for an event we do assume that the seats are free if registered attendees have not arrived at the commencement time, and those seats will be reallocated to people on the waiting list.
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