Activism & academia: discussing actions for climate justice

Name: Activism & academia: discussing actions for climate justice
Start: 2025-11-13T18:00:00+1100
End: 2025-11-13T19:30:00+1100
Location: Hedley Bull Centre - Lecture Theatre 1

Thu, 13 Nov, 6pm - 7:30pm AEDT

Hedley Bull Centre - Lecture Theatre 1

Acton ACT, Australia

PHEHothouse

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This event brings together academia and activism in the same room. Professor Sharon Friel, director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, will be in conversation with Rising Tide activists, discussing the role of academia and activism in addressing climate change and fighting for climate justice. The discussion will follow the screening of Turning the Ship, the 2024 People’s Blockade documentary telling the story of the passion and drive leading to the block the World’s largest coal port. The event is in-person only.

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Humanity faces three major and interconnected challenges – climate change, social inequality and premature death and disease. Governance approaches to date have failed to prevent these problems, and in many cases have made the situation worse.

The Hothouse is here to generate new ways to address these failings. By centring governance goals around planetary health equity, we aim to promote the equitable enjoyment of good health for all within the context of a stable, sustainable ecosystem.

Such an approach requires an interdisciplinary analysis that integrates political, economic, commercial and social frameworks. Using this integrated analysis, we aim to generate a comprehensive understanding of the consumptogenic system - the institutions, actors, norms, policies, commercial activities and behaviours that encourage and reward the excessive production and consumption of fossil fuel-reliant goods and services that are unhealthy and inequitably valued and distributed.

Equipped with a better understanding of the consumptogenic system’s evolution and current dynamics, the Hothouse will start to identify the conditions that enable the transformation of the system towards planetary health equity goals, and shift governance practices toward a more effective modern paradigm.

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Thu, 13 Nov, 6pm - 7:30pm AEDT

Hedley Bull Centre - Lecture Theatre 1

Acton ACT, Australia

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