Explore Tasmania’s new Climate Action Plan and join our experts to discuss its community rollout, alignment with global climate change communication strategies, and the active involvement of young people.
Join a panel of experts for this online talk, brought to you in collaboration with the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
The experts
Dr Sarah Russell is the Director of the Climate Change Office in Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania, part of the Department of State Growth. She heads a small team that leads the Tasmanian Government response to climate change. The team’s key priorities include coordinating and delivering actions under Tasmania’s climate change action plan, embedding climate change into government decision making, climate change projections, Tasmania’s first state wide climate change risk assessment, and Emissions Reduction and Resilience Plans. Sarah is a marine scientist and has a PhD from the University of Tasmania. She has over fifteen years’ experience in the public sector.
Dr Chloe Lucas is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research explores the social dimensions of climate change. Chloe’s career has focused on ways to improve communication about climate and sustainability across all sections of society. Her research explores the values and experiences underlying different social responses to climate change, and identifies pathways to more empathetic and inclusive climate conversations. She leads Curious Climate Schools, an award-winning climate communication project that asks children what they want to know about climate change.
Michael Grose is a research scientist at CSIRO, working on climate and climate change issues. He was a Lead Author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, in the Atlas chapter.
Corey Peterson has worked at the University of Tasmania since 2010 advancing from Sustainability Officer to Chief Sustainability Officer charged with advancing a holistic organisational sustainability agenda. He was on the University of Tasmania Governing Council from 2012-2020 and is the current President of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS). He has also served on the Board of several community organisations, including Sustainable Living Tasmania for ten years (five as President), is a graduate of the Tasmanian Leaders Program and has joint Masters Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Administration. He also spent 16 years supporting science in Antarctica before immigrating to Tasmania.