121 min 57 sec, FLV FORMAT

Festival of Ideas 2009 - Climate Change and Australia: Trauma or Transformation?

Description

The Warning of the Warming World

  • Can Australia be cured of its carbon addiction from brown coal for electricity to petrol for its transport system?
  • Will the change be traumatic or transformative?
  • Can we afford to make the change? Can we afford not to?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Start time: 10:00 am AEST

More information

Professor David Karoly, ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Meteorology in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
Professor Ross Garnaut, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne and author of The Garnaut Climate Change Review for the
Commonwealth Government
Professor Jim Falk, Director, Australian centre for science, innovation and society (ACSIS) and APRU World Institute Climate Change
Glenn Wightwick, Director of the IBM Australia Development Laboratory, Chief Technologist for IBM Australia and an IBM Distinguished Engineer

Festival of Ideas

Chair:
Professor Peter Rathjen, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Melbourne

Credits

Festival of Ideas Event

Director: Patrick McCaughey
Deputy Director:
Jacyl Shaw

Project Officers:
Elise Fagone, Sarah Paul & Hellen Blue
Public Relations:
Diane Squires
Advertising:
Eve Van Foort
Website:
Giles Ng & Paul Tagell
Branding:
Daniel Tobin
Ticketing:
Caroline Handreck & Rebecca Johnson
Multimedia:
Kelvin Param

Festival of Ideas Event Video
Production by Digital Media Services

Director
Ian Shiel

Technical Director
Russell Evans

Vision Switch
Ian Shiel
Leigh Tilson

Audio
Russell Evans
Jeremy Shaw
Mark Richardson

Camera
Gillian McTigue
Leigh Tilson
Eileen Wall
Tom Collins
Mark Richardson
Michael D'Aprano
Alex Steve
Ben Loveridge
John Hubbard

Learning Space Support
Paul Devitt
Michael D'Aprano
Janice Tomlinso
Carlo Sgro

Post-Production
Ben Loveridge

Staging Provided by
Harry the Hirer