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Climate change has long been stymied in politics but this panel discussion asks our politicians for leadership and action.Former leader of the Federal Opposition Malcolm Turnbull, Labor MP Mark…
Author of Green Metropolis, David Owen reflects on how moving to the country means more cars, why Manhattan has the smallest carbon footprint of any US city and how public transport can work.
Our cities should be the key to green lifestyles, but while they hold 50% of the world’s population they use 70% of our energy.Our panel including Professor Rob Adams from the City of Melbourne, Sue …
Leave your question for our Innovating the Cities panel of David Owen, Melinda Dodson, Sue Holliday, Bruce Taper and Rob Adams.We may not get to all questions.Please leave your name so our moderator…
Amidst all the political and policy debate, the technical discussions and the controversies surrounding the science vs the sceptics, it is easy to forget the human impacts of the choices we make…
Founding Director of the Centre for Environment Education, Kartikeya Sarabhai asks how we can make development sustainable.
Author of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer discusses how individuals can make a collective change that will support our environment.
Author of Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-Building for Australian Progressives, Tim Soutphommasane looks at how Australia can build a sustainable future.
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Humanity has never faced a problem like this before: a problem with no boundaries, caused by the very dynamics that have led to economic growth and human betterment. So it’s little wonder that as…
Humanity has never faced a problem like this before: a problem with no boundaries, caused by the very dynamics that have led to economic growth and human betterment. So it’s little wonder that as…
Questions will be selected for panel discussion after the interval.Or join us on twitter at #thedeakinsPlease include your name so our moderator can identify your question.Due to volume of interest…
Climate change is already having a bigger impact on developing nations as rising sea levels create climate change refugees and environmental disasters are on the rise.Few Australian understand the…
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So much of the analysis of how we respond to climate change assumes that economic growth and emissions reduction are compatible goals. But is this wishful thinking? To question maximising economic…
“No Kill Cropping” practitioner Michael Inwood demonstrates the electric ute that pulls the Agroplow AD Hybrid disc drill.This video was part of a Carbon Down on the Farm in Bendigo, which included a…
Can we really tackle climate change, enhance agricultural production, generate energy and lock carbon into our soils? Panelists Johannes Lehmann, Andrew Broad, Stephen Joseph and Alan Lauder are…
How we manage, exploit and protect our land has always had fundamental implications for our civilisation. In this keynote address, soil scientist Johannes Lehmann looks at sustainable agriculture…
David Blood is Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a fund management business dedicated to long-term investment and integrated sustainability research.This keynote was followed by a
Climate change discourse isn’t all photos of worried polar bears and winsome children. Even amongst those who accept that we’re facing a time of monumental change, one question niggles about the…
James Cameron is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market based policy responses to climate change.This keynote was followed by a panel discussion featuring David Blood, James…
Wherever the conversation about climate change goes in the year ahead, it’s guaranteed that at the centre of the Australian discussion sits two acronyms: ETS and CPRS. But what do either of them…
Wherever the conversation about climate change goes in the year ahead, it’s guaranteed that at the centre of the Australian discussion sits two acronyms: ETS and CPRS. But what do either of them…
Wherever the conversation about climate change goes in the year ahead, it’s guaranteed that at the centre of the Australian discussion sits two acronyms: ETS and CPRS. But what do either of them…
Questions will be selected for panel discussion after the interval.Or join us on twitter at #thedeakinsPlease include your name so our moderator can identify your question.Due to volume of interest…
Questions will be selected for panel discussion after the interval.Or join us on twitter at #thedeakinsPlease include your name so our moderator can identify your question. Due to volume of interest…
Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, not only in Australia, but f…
Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, not only in Australia, but f…
Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, not only in Australia, but f…
New world or not, it’s clear that old ways of generating and using energy must change. But if our coal-fired power plants are a thing of the past, what does the future look like? Wind turbines or…
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Series curator Tim Flannery delivers the opening keynote address for the Alfred Deakins Lectures 2010.
Saturday June 5th marks the 10th annual World Environment Day, a day when the UN looks at positive actions supporting protection and restoration of the world’s natural heritage.This year’s score…
Tim Costello has long been the voice of social conscience for many Australians, having led debates on issues such as gambling, urban poverty, homelessness, reconciliation and substance abuse.Tim…
Deakin Series curator Tim Flannery has fired another at salvo at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in the latest issue of the Monthly.Flannery characterises Rudd’s policy move as “a funk in the truest sense …
After the disappointment of Copenhagen, Bonn’s climate change talks have been called “a slow grind” by ABC Online.Beginning on Monday, the Bonn talks are being watched closely by Pacific nations as t…
Attunga Capital focuses on short term and long term investment opportunities in various niche asset classes and has assets under management of $200m.Prior to Attunga Capital, Ian consulted to and…
He has 20 years’ experience spanning policy, academic, government and corporate roles at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Justice, consulting firm…
He is a member of the House Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts Committee. He is a Director of ClimateWorks Australia, a not-for-profit partnership between the Myer Foundation and…
Grant King was appointed Managing Director of Origin Energy in 2000, following the demerger of the energy and building/construction businesses of Boral Limited, where he had been Managing Director…
We’ve just released a limited amount of new seats for the Deakin Lecture series keynote address this Sunday with Tim Flannery.Flannery has long been at the vanguard of Australia’s environmental…
One of the great hopes of carbon storage is biochar, because it could be used to generate electricity and fertilise soil. ABC’s Bush Telegraph looked at the substance they’re calling “the other…
The media buzzed with news that Deakins Series curator Tim Flannery has switched his position on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and on carbon capturing.The Australian reported from Flannery’s speech…
Not everyone agrees on climate change. Quadrant Online’s Doomed Planet questions global warming publishing Andrew Gilkson’s argument that there is a “widening gulf between scientific observations…
Local readers might be all too familiar with our curator from the wealth of books Tim Flannery has written – most notably his seminal and influential climate change work The Weather Makers. Based o…
Working as Head of Programming for the Wheeler Centre has brought its surprises, its challenges and its learning curves, but perhaps none as pronounced as working on the 2010 Alfred Deakin Lecture…
Cold climates dwellers have been smugly thinking global warming will bring sunnier weather. The Guardian's review of Turned Out Nice, Britain will become more like the Mediterranean. London will be…
Earlier this week, the US National Research Council released three reports on climate change calling for decisive action to limit carbon emissions.Originally commissioned by Congress in 2008, the…
Both Tim Flannery and Nick Rowley come to the Deakin Lectures as veterans of last year’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. After the disappointing outcome of that conference we asked both…
Reuters reports that debate on reducing carbon emissions is in “legislative limbo”. A draft proposal of almost 1000 pages was issued last week, but little has been done to get it on the US Senate’s a…
Tony Abbott has done a lot to impress Malcolm Turnbull with his new-found praise for Coalition policy on climate change.Back in December 2009 Turnbull’s blog entry scolded “Mr Abbott apparently…
Science magazine this month features an article on the extinction of lizards, attributing their demise to global warming. Up to a fifth of the world’s lizards could disappear by 2080 with a horrific …
As the cleanup continues in the Gulf of Mexico, reports of underwater “mushroom clouds… [that] portend more dangerous long-term fallout for the Gulf of Mexico’s wildlife and economy". Experts say…
As Britain meets its new power-sharing leaders, climate change policy is caught in the middle, according to The Independent.Pre-election slogans from the Conservative party to “vote blue, go green&rdquo…
Andrew Weldon’s cartoon goes head-to-head with Hummers. For the real Flannery check out the Deakin Lecture Series.
Over the weekend, Australia’s political commentators gave their diagnosis for the Rudd Government’s policy go slow on climate change.In The Australian, Paul Kelly damned Rudd saying the retreat…
Previously, Nickhas worked for more thanten years at the centre ofgovernment on sustainability,climate change and broaderpolicy and political strategyin Australia and the UK, as anadvisor to British …
In this role he was responsible for overseeing, for the first time, the control of interstate waters coming under the responsibility of the national government. He has worked in the law, journalism a…
Prior to this appointment, she was made a British Labour Life Peer and served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. She was appointed Secretary of State for…
He led the Climate and Environment policy development of the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney 2030 project; was commissioned by the Capital City’s Lord Mayors to examine the greenhouse abatement p…
As former Director General of Planning in NSW, she was responsible for leading, managing and reforming the planning system.
She has worked as design architect on many award winning projects and in 2009 she was elected National President of the Australian Institute of Architects. Her primary focus is on sustainable cities …
A Research Fellow at Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies and a Senior Project Leader at the Per Capita think tank, Tim has written widely for the British and Australian press.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946 and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and…
He is a member of the Earth Charter International Council and Vice-Chair of the Indian National Commission for the International Union Conservation of Nature. He is also editor of the Journal of…
He is convenor of the National Research Network on the social, and economic dimensions of climate change, and on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Environmental Change and Human…
She served as adviser to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on UNcivil society relations and was the architect of the UK government’s pioneering sustainable development dialogues with China, India…
Since 2004 Tim has been Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission and is the author of their controversial and groundbreaking report, now updated and expanded in the book
Alan is a frequent media commentator, has had ongoing interaction with the scientific community and is author of Carbon Grazing.
Dr Joseph is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, a chartered engineer and has been a senior adviser to both commercial, government and non-government organisations, in renewable energy…
The ute will be on display as part of the Carbon Down on the Farm session at the 2010 Deakins.
In 2006 he was one of twelve Australian delegates at the International Federation of Agricultural Producers World Young Farmer Congress in Buenos Aires Argentina.
During the past 10 years, he has focused on nanoscale investigations of organic matter and the development of bioenergy systems. Dr Lehmann is Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the International B…
He is Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital, a leading investment-banking group specialising in the commercial opportunities created by a low carbon economy.
Previously, David served as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
She has previously worked in investment research and funds management and was top-rated BHP analyst for several years.
Richard previously worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on environment policy and was an advisor on climate and energy at JP Morgan.
He spent 13 years as Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and 18 years with the US Government.
His appointment followed six years as Deputy Secretary in Treasury with responsibility for domestic and international macroeconomic issues and as Deputy Secretary of the Climate Change Group.
He served in various capacities in ICI’s chemicals, pesticides and fertiliser divisions for 20 years and took over as the Managing Director of Tata Chemicals in October 2000.
He is author of The Clean Industrial Revolution: Growing Australian Prosperity in a Greenhouse Age.
He has 30 years experience in local and international power generation and transmission. Michael is currently responsible for the commercialisation of emerging technologies in the energy sector.
In 2005 The Weather Makers was published and became an international bestseller. He is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, the National Geographic Society’s Australasian…
Ian McEwan’s latest novel Solar, published today, is a look at climate change through the eyes of a fairly unappealing, middle-aged scientist. Solar: Ian McEwan The…
Fifty-six countries around the world publish the same editorial on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen Conference. Australia isn’t one of them.
Greenpeace advertisments will greet world leaders as they arrive in Copenhagen for the Climate Change Conference this week, but Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and others may not be thrilled but what…
