Dr Judith Ajani
, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
Australia’s forestry industry and foresters argue that, from a climate change perspective, we should substitute…
Professor Barbara Norman
, Canberra Urban and Regional Futures Program
A new national urban policy, climate change, regional development and sustainable population statements…
Professor Alan Smith and Dr Ady James
As part of Mt Stromlo’s centenary celebrations for 2011, this lecture series provides an opportunity to hear…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
This lecture is the ninth annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture presented by the Australian National University.
The introduction of an emissions trading scheme in Australia constitutes a significant…
Dr Michael Watkins
, NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory
The Earth's gravity field varies from place to place and from one day to the next. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is a revolutionary satellite system that allows scientists to use…
The Hon Greg Hunt MP
, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage
In this panel discussion, members will explore the interaction between China's economic development and it'd environmental responsibilities, from a range of social, political, environmental and economic…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
This symposium brought together key experts to discuss the future of Climate Change action in Australia, 6 months after the Copenhagen Climate Change summit.
Dr Judith Ajani
, Economist, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU
Many plantation managed investment companies have collapsed. A pulp mill proposal struggles to find financiers. A stock exchange listed forestry company requests a share trading halt while it tries…
Dr Bradley Opdyke
, President, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia
People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to…
Dr Aaron Bernstein
, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Biodiversity loss, namely a reduction in the variety of life on Earth, continues relatively unabated worldwide. Biodiversity loss represents far more than a loss to experience nature's beauty or to…
Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government…
Hosted by Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
What really went on at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference? Was it a fiasco or a positive step forward? Those are some of the questions that were addressed by a panel of experts at The Australian…
Professor Tony McMichael and Professor John Mackenzie
, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU and Formerly of the World Health Organisation
Climate change raises a number of challenges to human wellbeing, among these is the threat to our health. In combination with climate change, large-scale global environmental changes such…
Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Distinguished Professor, The Australian National University
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…
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change, The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change at the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office presented a public lecture called, Coal: The Elephant in the Room
Emeritus Professor Ian Ferguson , Forest & Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
The sustainability of the Ash forests of Victoria is contentious for a number of reasons, not least because of the pressures of population and economic growth, and climate change on their diverse uses.…
Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy
The world faces monumental challenges of ensuring energy supply can meet ever growing needs, while urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The current course we are on will see global energy demand…
Professor Daniel G. Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Rising living standards of a growing world population…
Dr Guy Pearse, Environmental Advocate & Author
In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national…
Professor Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
One of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: How
do we bring first class basic science to bear on important applied
problems? Although the path is not completely…
Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
The presentation focuses on three key questions on climate change: what set of policies are desirable? What are the impacts of policy action, and is global action achievable?
The first question…
Andrew Macintosh, Associate Director, ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy
On Friday, 5 September 2008, Professor Ross Garnaut released his much awaited supplementary draft report on targets and trajectories. The report argues that Australia's mid- and long-term targets should…
Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment and Director of the Society for Environmental Communications
"Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future". Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment; Director…
Richard Carson, Professor of Economics, University of California
ANU Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics The lecture traces the outlines of economic thinking on climate change. Two competing paradigms are reviewed: (1) modelling of greenhouse gases…
Professor Warwick McKibbin, Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Business and Economics
As a mechanism for controlling climate change, the Kyoto Protocol has not been a success. Over the decade from it’s signing in 1997 to the beginning of its first commitment period in 2008, greenhouse…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Decisions on whether and how much mitigation of the risks of dangerous climate change is justified raises exceptional challenges. In this lecture Professor Garnaut discusses the issues that arise when…
Emeritus Professor Ted Moore
As a pioneer in paleoceanography who has contributed to three generations of scientific ocean drilling programs, Ted Moore questions whether lessons learned from Earth's past will help us better appreciate…
Professor Anette Reenberg
Human driven changes to the land surface have wide ranging influence on the functioning of the Earth System. The intensity of land cover change has increased rapidly over the last three hundred years,…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific
In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the 'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits…
Moderated by Professor Will Steffen, Director, ANU Fenner School of Enfionment and Society; Convener, ANU Institute for Environment
Will emissions trading harm or benefit the economy? Can emissions trading get Australia to a low emissions future? What is the right way toward an effective post-Kyoto international scheme? This…
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
2007 K R Narayanan Oration Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global…
Associate Professor Janette Lindesay, Professor Robert Dunbar, Professor Malcolm McCulloch
Leading expert scientists from ANU and Stanford University presented critiques of the ABC televised program from the previous evening entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. The forum was then opened…
Dr Andrew Glikson, Department of Earth and Marine Science and Planetary Science Institute, ANU
Throughout Earth’s history, mass extinctions of species were closely related to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere and the oceans. These variations were controlled by heat from the…
Clive Hamilton, Executive Director, Australia Institute
2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power…
Vanessa Woods, Writer, researcher, freelance journalist
Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed…
Dr David Suzuki, Chair, David Suzuki Foundation
In this last lecture tour of Australia, acclaimed environmentalist and scientist Dr David Suzuki tells the story of his passion for the planet – a passion that for several decades he has brought…
Professor Warwick J McKibbin, Executive Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of…
Dr Jane Goodall DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace
Dr Jane Goodall is known worldwide as a passionate environmental advocate. At the heart of her mission is a 46-year research and conservation project studying humanity’s closest relative –…
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