19 events Coming up
09 May 2012
Moving Forward in the Climate Negotiations: Multilateralism or Minilateralism?
This lecture is part of the Global Law Students Association's, Global Thinking Lecture Series sponsored by King & Wood Mallesons and scheduled throughout 2012. The series of guest lectures will feature eminent individuals from diverse professional...
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Free Public Lecture14 Jun 2012
Law vs Desire: Will Force or Obedience Save the Planet (From Climate Change)?
In the midst of the current climate crisis something needs to change. That something is us. How to produce the kind of behavioural change required in populations to save the planet may be a question of law, a question of desire or even a question...
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Free Public Lecture26 Jun 2012
The future of coal and gas in Australia
This seminar in our Energy Futures Series will examine one of the major challenges of our time. Energy analysts and commentators envisage coal and gas playing major, if not dominant, roles in supplying an energy hungry world for many decades. Au...
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Free Public Lecture31 Jul 2012
China, Climate Change and Sustainability
China’s efforts to address climate change, including its national investments in clean energy are, in terms of percentage of GDP,three times that of the United States. In the context of China’s existing actions on climate change and current commi...
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Free Public Lecture14 Aug 2012
Great is the Power of Steady Misrepresentation*
The science of climate change has come under public attack through what has been described as asymmetric warfare. Public communication has been flooded with a deluge of misinformation. In parallel there have been attempts to distract, intimidate a...
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Free Public Lecture06 Sep 2012
Climactic change over the millennia – adapting to our future
Big Issue Mini Lecture Young researchers finding out where we’ve been, and where we’re going. Hear about current research by the students themselves in 15 minute mini lectures. Topics include: Exploring palaeoclimate records and what they can te...
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Free Public Lecture20 Sep 2012
Addressing the myths of Climate Change: Science, Impacts, Adaptation
This lecture will provide an insight into some of the key climate change myths from the perspective of three prominent climate scientists. This lecture will be chaired by Rob Gell. Speakers are Lesley Hughes and Will Steffen from the Australian C...
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Free Public Lecture21 Sep 2012
Climate Change Science: Impacts and Adaptation for Victoria
Understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes is an important challenge for Australian scientists as well as for planners and politicians. This is one of a series of annual Royal Society Victoria Symposia on scientific issues of importa...
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Symposium11 Oct 2012
The inescapable challenges of the early 21st Century: sustainability and resilience, and the interconnected challenges of energy, water, food and climate
Sir John Beddington will talk about the potential ‘perfect storm’ created by the interconnected global challenges of food security, climate change and the world’s rapidly growing demands for energy and water. It is predicted that by 2030 the world...
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Free Public Lecture16 Oct 2012
6:00–7:30PM
Recent progress in modelling past greenhouse climates and implications for the future
One of the main criticisms of modelderived predictions of future climate change is that these climate models have not be validated by comparing with past, natural climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth. For over thirty years, the ...
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Free Public Lecture13 Nov 2012
Reacting to Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation using Membrane Technology
There is clear scientific evidence that emissions of carbon dioxide are leading to changes in our climate. This presentation will discuss how the Australian population is already adapting to this paradigm shift in climate, with desalination plants...
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Free Public Lecture21 Feb 2013
Morality and Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most daunting challenges to face humanity. At this event three philosophers will consider some of the most pressing moral issues posed by climate change. Peter Singer “What did you do to save the planet? Climate change...
20 Mar 2013
Inside the local-global continuum: the triple challenges of food security, climate change and driving a dynamic network
Free online webinar, hosted by the Primary Industries Adaptatation Research Network (PIARN) and presented by Tara Garnett, Convenor of the Food Climate Research Network at the University of Oxford The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) is an in...
21 Mar 2013
Considering Honours in 2013/2014?
Two of the greatest issues of our time, adapting to climate change and feeding a rapidly growing population, are placing tremendous pressures on our environments and society. Together these issues are increasing the economic competition for scarc...
10 Apr 2013
6:00–7:30PM
Climate Commission's Extreme Weather Report - Community Forum
The Climate Commission would like to invite you to join other community leaders at a presentation about the links between climate change and extreme weather events. Extreme weather events, including heatwaves and heavy rainfall and consequent floo...
09 May 2013
Tiffin Talk: Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic: Emerging Indian Perspectives
In steadily proliferating popular, academic and official narratives of anthropogenic global warming, the Arctic – significantly marked by the imagery of ‘diminishing ice’, ‘opening sea routes’ and ‘scramble over resources’ has come to geopolitica...
12 Jun 2013
Wednesday Lecture hosted by Raimond Gaita - Belonging to Country: Aboriginal Dispossession
Deepening political instability in many regions of the earth, compounded by the effects of climate change, will probably cause more people to be uprooted than were uprooted last century. Strong nations are likely to protect themselves in ways tha...
19 Jun 2013
Wednesday Lecture hosted by Raimond Gaita - What kind of human will live in the Anthropocene?
Deepening political instability in many regions of the earth, compounded by the effects of climate change, will almost certainly cause even more people to be uprooted than were uprooted last century. We must therefore think in new ways about how ...
03 Jul 2013
Wednesday Lecture hosted by Raimond Gaita - Asylum: ‘A Community of Nations?’
Deepening political instability in many regions of the earth, compounded by the effects of climate change, will probably cause more people to be uprooted than were uprooted last century. Strong nations are likely to protect themselves in ways tha...