Introducing Professor Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Canberra
Will Steffen is a celebrated international global change researcher, and is widely published on climate science. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of sustainability and Earth Systems science with an emphasis on climate change adaption in land systems, and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. In 2011, he was principal author of a government climate report titled “The Critical Decade” which advocated a tax on carbon.
Will served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program in Stockholm from 2008 – 2014 and the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute from 2008 – 2012. He was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government’s Climate Commission until 2013 when the Commission was disbanded by the incoming Liberal Government. This prompted him and other Commissioners, including Professor Tim Flannery, Professor Lesley Hughes, and CEO Amanda McKenzie, to found the Climate Council, of which he is still a Climate Councillor.
Join us on 15 February to hear Will’s insights into potential tipping points caused by climate change inaction, and our other speakers Admiral (Ret). Chris Barrie Adjunct Professor Strategic and Defence Studies ANU, and Zara Bending Associate, Centre for Environmental Law Macquarie University.
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