Media release – 06 September
BETTER FUTURES FORUM: 6 AND 7 SEPTEMBER 2022, UNSW CANBERRA
[Read more…] about Everyday Aussies pushing for an ambitious national climate agenda from the bottom upTuesday at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW Canberra
Media invited onsite and online
Ban Ki-Moon will welcome the new Australian Government’s commitment to more ambitious climate action – 12 noon.
[Read more…] about Tuesday at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW CanberraHow we can secure 24-hour renewable energy AND stop price spikes
Tuesday 6 September, forum at UNSW Canberra and online from 9.20 am, media welcome
Campaign calls for a national target and policy settings to ensure that Australia can secure 18 GW of renewable energy storage across the country and achieve 82% of energy supply from renewables by 2030.
[Read more…] about How we can secure 24-hour renewable energy AND stop price spikesHealth sector responsible for 7 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions. The federal government can fix this.
Climate change is harming the health of Australians and stressing our health system. Yet the system itself is a major generator of carbon emissions.
40+ health leaders meeting at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW Canberra today have created an ambitious implementation plan to slash health-related carbon emissions, save money, and improve patient care.
[Read more…] about Health sector responsible for 7 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions. The federal government can fix this.“Climate change is already killing Australians”
Health leaders call to implement a plan that will save lives and prepare the health system for future change
Health leaders are meeting at the Better Futures Forum at UNSW Canberra today to call for urgent implementation of a national climate-health action plan.
Leaders from 40+ health and medical organisations, including the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, will discuss the urgent priorities for the government’s proposed national climate-health plan as laid out in a joint statement.
[Read more…] about “Climate change is already killing Australians”“We’re coming to Canberra this year full of optimism”
Climate and health; megabattery storage; 395,000 jobs.
Three of the issues on the agenda this week for better futures.
Speakers, op eds, lived experience: media welcome at UNSW Canberra and online.
“The new government has set a new path for climate change and Australia is being welcomed back to the table by the international community,” says Lisa Cliff, Program Director of the Better Futures Forum on this week at UNSW Canberra and online.
[Read more…] about “We’re coming to Canberra this year full of optimism”Better Futures Forum: 6 and 7 September 2022, UNSW Canberra
Monday 5 September (side-event, day prior)
A net zero health system that’s ready to protect Australians from climate health impacts?
50 health leaders meeting to develop an implementation plan to:
- prepare the health system for climate health impacts
- and eliminate the industry’s carbon footprint.
How do collisions of rocks with planets help the planets evolve?
Adelaide
Planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic is available to discuss the nature of planets in Adelaide this week. She will give a free public talk on Tuesday 6 September. It’s part of a national tour of public and school talks promoting opportunities for women in physics.
The planets in our solar system are vastly different although they all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust around a star – our sun. Why is this?
Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic thinks the answers lie in studying how asteroids, comets and meteors bombarded the planets in the past, changing the surface conditions.
She works at Curtin University’s Space Science and Technology Centre and School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and uses data from several NASA missions.
[Read more…] about How do collisions of rocks with planets help the planets evolve?Better Futures Forum: 6 and 7 September 2022, UNSW Canberra
Creating a better future for Australia
- A net zero health system that’s ready to protect Australians from climate health impacts?
- Big batteries that guarantee supply and put a stop to energy price spikes?
- Renewable energy export opportunities creating 395,000 jobs?
- Making zero emissions transport accessible to all?
- Embedding climate justice?
- Greater ambition on the path to net zero?
The second national Better Futures Forum, at UNSW Canberra and online on 6 and 7 September, will launch a collective commitment to an ambitious national climate agenda. One that creates regional jobs, protects the future health and prosperity of our businesses and communities, regenerates nature and underpins a booming renewable energy industry.
[Read more…] about Better Futures Forum: 6 and 7 September 2022, UNSW CanberraGive me a throne among the gum trees – river red gum crowned Australia’s favourite tree!
Snow gum and ghost gum close behind
National poll ranks Australia’s 33 favourite native trees
Over 265,000 votes cast throughout August
Media contacts: Laura Boland, laura@scienceinpublic.com.au,
0408 166 426; or Jane Watkins, jane@scienceinpublic.com.au,
0425 803 204
More about the winners at: www.abc.net.au/trees
Australians have chosen the river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) as their favourite native tree in ABC’s national poll.
“The river red gum is the perfect Australian tree. No two trees are the same, and each has its own personality. I love the way the twisted limbs, the gnarly hollows and dead wood, and all the scars and broken branches reflect a tough life but one well lived,” says Professor Tim Entwisle, botanist and Director and Chief Executive of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
[Read more…] about Give me a throne among the gum trees – river red gum crowned Australia’s favourite tree!