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Lucy Manne – Climate Change: A Very Short Arc that Bends towards Justice?

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre Arts West, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Lucy Manne, (CEO of 350.org). Climate Change: A Very Short Arc that Bends towards Justice? 2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita Political inaction in Australia and around the world means that we now have an alarmingly short window in which to act in order to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. As the urgency... View Article

Climate Change: A Very Short Arc that Bends towards Justice?

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre Arts West, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

2019 Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita Political inaction in Australia and around the world means that we now have an alarmingly short window in which to act in order to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. As the urgency to increases, so does the risk that the solutions we adopt reinforce or even... View Article

Neil Gunningham – Averting Climate Catastrophe: Extinction Rebellion, Business & People Power

Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre Spencer Rd, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Neil Gunningham (Fenner School of Environment and Society). Averting Climate Catastrophe: Extinction Rebellion, Business & People Power What, beyond grassroots politics, would a transformational movement built around climate change involve? About this Event We have a brief window in which to act on climate change, and to do so with enough force, commitment and ambition to... View Article

Averting Climate Catastrophe: Extinction Rebellion, Business & People Power

Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre Spencer Rd, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Neil Gunningham) What, beyond grassroots politics, would a transformational movement built around climate change involve? About this Event We have a brief window in which to act on climate change, and to do so with enough force, commitment and ambition to achieve a rapid decarbonisation of the global economy. But how might such a fundamental... View Article

Statistics: The Crown Jewel of Data Science

David P. Derham Theatre Melbourne Law School Parkville campus 185 Pelham Street, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Statistics has always been vitally important to data science, and its importance is growing. With data scientists in critically short supply, however, the discipline is attracting talented people from many different disciplines, each bringing different and complementary skills to a data science team. Integral to such a team's work are tasks that are standard fare... View Article

Coffs Harbour Workshop – Data and information for a changing climate: Contributing to improving the design, delivery and access to next generation NARCliM projections

Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club 23 Surf Club Road, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia

Spring Workshops Data and information for a changing climate - Improving future natural hazard data for infrastructure, communities and services   Do you use climate data and information in projects or assessments and need better access, products or services? Do you need climate data products and maps for evidence-based decision-making and want to know whether... View Article

Monash panel discussion – Looking ahead at COP25

New Horizons 20 Research Way, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Anna Malos (Climate Works Australia), John Connor (Carbon Market Institute), Irwin Jackson (Investor Group on Climate Change), Chloe Monro (Monash University). 'The gap is larger than ever' according to the United In Science report published earlier this year. The current national emissions reduction targets set under the Paris Agreement needs to be increased fivefold to maintain the... View Article