Some of Australia’s leading sustainability thinkers across a broad spectrum of disciplines will join forces to seek innovative solutions to climate change with the launch of the new Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of Sydney tomorrow September 17, 2013.
As one of the nation’s first wholly interdisciplinary environment networks, the SEI will conduct cutting-edge research, bringing together researchers across the University of Sydney’s 16 faculties in pursuit of integrated knowledge and action on global ecological issues.
“Any hopes of tackling climate change will require such broad thinking, combining both scientific approaches and a keen awareness of how human societies need to adapt to our warming world,”according to co-Director of the Institute Professor Iain McCalman.
"We need to face up to how best we can live in this extraordinarily changing world, which is changing faster than any of us realise,” he says.
In one of the first events co-presented by the Institute on Wednesday, September 25, internationally renowned environmental campaigner Dr David Suzuki will deliver the public lecture ‘The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line’ at the University of Sydney’s Great Hall.
