Walter Westman Lecture
28 July 2009
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John Connor |
The highly praised and exceedingly successful inaugural Walter Westman lecture, held at International House last September, lets IH proudly announce this years speaker will be John Connor, the CEO of Climate Institute of Australia. The next Walter Westman lecture will take place on the 17th of September 2009 at IH.
John Connor is a well-established environmentalist who began his career working in the field of environmental law and has since then worked for numerous influential organisations such as The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Nature conservation Council of NSW.
The lecture will be held at IH on 17 September 2009. John's lecture will address how Australian and International Efforts are shaping up on the crucial elements of an effective global climate agreement. His professional knowledge and insight into these important and interesting issues will critically analyse the effectiveness of global climate agreements as well as address the extent to which economic growth potential in Australia is monopolized by coal and energy intensive industries.
The lecture topic is extremely relevant in current international politics, as the central focus of the approaching UN leaders summit in New York will be climate change. Furthermore, in the same week, the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh will be focusing on similar issues.
IH is excited to be hosting such a great event and invites anyone interested to attend the lecture as well as participate in a question and answer style discussion afterwards.
Speech now available, please click [[/internationalhouse/documents/Walter Westman Speech 2009.pdf||here]] to download
Where: International House, Wool Room, The University of Sydney
96 City Road, Chippendale (next to the Seymour Centre)
Date: Thursday 17 September, 2009
Time: 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
FREE
Light refreshments will be served after the lecture
RSVP- Friday 11 September, 2009
Telephone: +61 2 9950 9800
Facsimile: +61 2 9950 9804
E-mail: ihoffice@usyd.edu.au
www.usyd.edu.au/internationalhouse
Contact: International House
