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2009 National Summit: Climate change and energy security - Looking towards the Copenhagen Conference
12 June 2009
The United States Studies Centre hosted the second National Summit in June 2009. The topic of Plenary Session 4 was "Climate change and energy security: Looking towards the Copenhagen Conference" and featured Ross Garnaut, Robert Hill and Gillian Triggs. The session was moderated by Mark Colvin.
2009 National Summit: Expert Sessions 2
12 June 2009
The United States Studies Centre hosted the second National Summit in June 2009. This gallery contains photos from the expert sessions conducted on Day 2 of the Summit.
Dennis Richardson discusses the state of Australia-US relations
17 August 2009
Ambassador to the United States Dennis Richardson AO discussed the state of Australia-US relations at a Sydney breakfast on 17 August co-sponsored by the US Studies Centre with the American Australian Association, Industry & Investment NSW, and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
One year of Obama: A discussion with James Fallows, Paul Kelly, Robert Hill and Geoffrey Garrett
2 November 2009
James Fallows, National Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, The Honourable Robert Hill, recently returned Australian Ambassador to the United Nations and Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large of The Australian, discussed One Year of Obama in a forum moderated by Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Chief Executive of the US Studies Centre.
Launch of the Dow Sustainability Program
19 February 2010
A new three-year sustainability research program at the US Studies Centre was launched with US$2 million funding from the US-based Dow Chemical Company Foundation. Chief Executive Officer of Dow, Andrew Liveris, spoke at the launch.
James Hansen: What Australia should do about climate change
9 March 2010
In a Sydney leadership luncheon presentation jointly hosted by the US Studies Centre and Malleson Stephen Jaques, Dr James E. Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, delivered a strong argument for moving to nuclear power.
Dr Hansen is regarded as one of the world’s leading climate scientists. He is credited with first raising awareness of the issue of global warming in the United States and he has been a strong proponent of the need for concerted international action.
City of the Future
16 November 2010
The future of cities in the United States and Australia was explored in a landmark urban-planning conference in Brisbane's Parliament House on 15-16 November 2010, co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.
Senior Obama Administration officials US Assistant Secretary of Transport, Polly Trottenberg, and US Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Raphael Bostic, joined US business leaders including Dow Chemical Executive Vice President, David Kepler, and the President of Growth Initiatives for Alcoa, Kevin Kramer, and Australian experts to discuss public policy and private sector solutions to the urban challenges facing both countries.
2011 National Summit: The 9/11 Decade - Roundtable on the 9/11 Decade
6 June 2011
The "9/11 Decade: How Everything Changed" summit brought together government decision-makers past and present, thought leaders and academic experts from the US, Australia and around the world to take stock of the first epoch of the new millennium, the 9/11 Decade. The Summit dinner featured a discussion on The 9/11 Decade by Nicholas Burns, former United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Gareth Evans AO QC, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Robert Hill, former Minister for Defence, moderated by Geoffrey Garrett, CEO of the United States Studies Centre and Professor of Political Science at the University of Sydney.
UN Rio+20 Side Event - Responding to the Global Soil Crisis
27 April 2012
Global soil degradation is increasingly being recognised as a threat to food security, biodiversity and fresh water security. Scientists, alarmed that the rate of topsoil loss is now exceeding the rate of soil formation, are determining the environmental sustainability thresholds for soil erosion and calculating the timescales at which the world runs out of topsoil. At the same time, the fundamental role of soil in the delivery of ecosystem services including food and fibre production, fresh water regulation and support of biodiversity, has largely been ignored in international policy. Given projected increases in global population this issue now has critical significance.
To bring further attention to the issue of global soil degradation, and to build support for the issue to be addressed at Rio+20, the Australian Government hosted a side event to the informal-informal negotiations for Rio+20 at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday 25th April. The Hon Robert Hill, Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at the United States Studies Centre and former Ambassador to the UN, chaired the event. Speakers included members of the US Studies Centre Soil Carbon Initiative international coalition of soil scientists, Professor Rattan Lal from Ohio State University, and Professor Alex McBratney from the University of Sydney. Dr Neil McKenzie, Chief of Land and Water with CSIRO represented the Australian Government. The UN Convention on the prevention of Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) was represented by Dr Nandhini Iya Krishna, from the UNCCD New York Liaison Office.
The Benin Ambassador to the UN and representatives from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the European Commission, the Ghana Mission to the UN, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Savory Institute responded to the presentations.
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
Dr David Smith analyses how Obama's public support of same sex marriage may affect his re-election chances.
Edward Blakely discusses his new book 'My Storm' and the lessons that Australians can learn from Hurricane Katrina.
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