April 26 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Public Meeting

Energy and Water: can supply keep up with rising demand

Benledi House, 186 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037
Saturday 26 April 2025, 2 to 4.30pm (live-streamed)

Demand for both energy and water is rising because of a changing climate, population growth and (in the case of energy) new factors such as an explosion in AI. The need to shift to renewable energy is urgent if we are to mitigate climate change. Will there be enough renewable energy in the system to meet demand?

This public meeting is brought to you by Sustainable Population Australia: www.population.org.au. Please note that there two ticket types: 'In Person Admission' (with a 60 seating capacity) or and 'Online Admission.' The event will be available on zoom. The link will be emailed to 'Online Admission' attendees a day before the event. In addition, the zoom link will be available from the SPA website HERE.

Hear three experts in their respective fields address the issues, chaired by Mark Diesendorf.

Tim Buckley

Director of Climate Energy Finance, Australasia

Tim has 35 years financial markets experience, including providing public interest related financial analysis on the energy transition since 2013, studying China, India and Australia.

Tim founded Climate Energy Finance Australasia in 2022, having co-founded and worked with the global energy finance thinktank IEEFA over 2013-2021. For 17 years Tim was a Managing Director at Citigroup, Head of Australasian Equity Research. Tim has published over 100 reports on the global energy transition.

Jonathan Sobels

Dr Jonathan Sobels is a human geographer and co-author of the discussion paper “Big, Thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability” commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia. In 2010 he led a study for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship covering issues of where people settle, why, and what is required to deal with increased needs for water, energy, food, waste management and carbon emissions in our capital cities. He is currently Chair of the Coorong Environmental Trust.

Peter Cook

Peter Cook has worked variously as a beekeeper, university lecturer, public policy researcher, digital media project manager and senior executive in the non-profit sector. Peter has been involved over many years in environment-related campaigns including uranium mining, nuclear weapons, forests, energy and climate. He is coordinator of the SPA discussion paper series and is co-author of “Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability”