024 | 100 Mark Howden: Unrelenting action

Date: Friday 5 August 2022

Time: 9:30am - 10:30am

Location: 100 Climate Conversations Exhibition, Level 1, Powerhouse Museum

Price: FREE - Bookings Essential as places are limited

Drawing on over three decades of climate experience, Mark Howden is the director of the Australian National University Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions. With the frequency of storms with winds stronger than 250km more than tripling since 1980, Howden is committed to researching mitigation and adaptation responses to these potential severe weather events.

See Howden in conversation with investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson, recorded live at the Powerhouse as part of 100 Climate Conversations. Entry is free, but bookings are essential as places are limited. Doors open at 9.15am for a 9.30am start. No late admittance.

100 Climate Conversations is a two-year survey of visionary Australians who are accelerating the net zero carbon revolution. To find out more and subscribe to the podcast visit 100climateconversations.com.

Professor Mark Howden is director of the Australian National University Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions. Howden helped develop both the national and international greenhouse gas inventories that are a fundamental part of the Paris Agreement and has assessed ways to reduce emissions. He has been a major force in progressing the research and practice of adapting human and natural systems to a variable and changing climate. He is currently a vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of which he has been a member since 1991. He began his career as a systems ecologist and has authored over 430 publications.

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist whose career has spanned radio, television and print, covering politics, national security and climate change. She has been a foreign correspondent in Washington for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and executive producer of the ABC's Four Corners. As environment editor for the SMH in 2009 her joint Four Corners production, The Tipping Point, reporting on the rapid melt of Arctic Sea ice won a Walkley Award. Wilkinson has authored four books including, The Carbon Club: How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy (2020).