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Unpack the growth paradigm and hear from thinkers reimagining economies built around well-being, climate justice, and living within planetary boundaries.
This event is part of SEI’s Climate Justice Series. This panel series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to explore the urgent intersections of climate action, equity, and systemic change.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and acknowledgement of Country
04:32 – Mengyu Li
14:44 – Julia Steinberger
20:16 – Manfred Lenzen
24:32 – Annette Cowie
32:39 - Sharon Friel
40:50 - What is the one benefit you wish people understood about post-growth?
45:50 - Q+A begins
Speakers:
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‘Nature positive’ is everywhere but what does it really mean? In this instalment, hear expert insights on its use in policy, conservation, and finance, and who stands to benefit.
This event is part of SEI’s Climate Justice Series. This panel series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to explore the urgent intersections of climate action, equity, and systemic change.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and acknowledgement of Country
06:01 – Dwayne Mallard on dignity having currency and value
10:34 – Hugh Possingham on the difficulty of measuring nature
17:57 – Chloe Fisher on private sector investment in nature
23:05 – Jody Gunn on what principles should guide conservation and the finance sector
32:00 - Thoughts on 'perfection is the enemy of the good'
41:20 - Q+A begins
Speakers:
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In this instalment of the SEI Podcast Series hear from leading environmental figures to explore models of more-than-human governance, drawing from Indigenous knowledges, creative and legal practices, and innovative research.
This event is part of SEI’s Climate Justice Series. This panel series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to explore the urgent intersections of climate action, equity, and systemic change.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and introduction
07:30 – Patricia Gualingua on the Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest Declaration), translated by Silvia R. Martínez
15:219 – Nardi Simpson on music, land and language
22:53 – Paul Powlesland on the responsibility and possibility for transforming institutions
32:20 – Shrishtee Bajpai on decolonisation and land rights in connection with more-than-human justice
40:40 - What makes it possible for you to keep on imagining and embedding these possibilities in the present?
46:38 - Q+A begins
Speakers:
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In this instalment of the SEI Podcast Series, hear from leading voices as they discuss Australia’s urgent climate, housing and energy challenges, exploring solutions through inclusive decision-making, First Nations leadership, and innovative design to drive sustainable, equitable change for all.
This event is part of SEI’s Climate Justice Series. This panel series brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to explore the urgent intersections of climate action, equity, and systemic change.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and introduction
08:25 - Emma Bacon on how extreme heat is impacting society’s most vulnerable
12:20 - Karra Kinchela on how fossil fuel extraction is effecting First Nations people
17:30 - Amanda Tattersall on what does meaningful community engagement look like
23:05 - Steve Hartley on how the planning system is managing a housing crisis and climate resilience
31:00 - What climate justice issue should be prioritised on the federal government agenda?
39:40 - Q+A begins
Speakers
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In this instalment of the SEI Podcast Series, discover how nature-based solutions can be integrated into urban and coastal planning to build resilience and improve ecological health whilst balancing competing demands for land use. Learn from successful projects, understand the challenges, and explore practical strategies to implement these solutions at scale. This event will be an exclusive preview of a new report that engaged with diverse stakeholders to understand how green and blue infrastructure can transform flood risk management in Greater Sydney.
This event was held in partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute, Committee for Sydney, and AECOM at Climate Action Week 2025.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and introduction
02:11 - Address by Beck Dawson and context of discussion
09:14 - Sam Kernaghan on Sydney's resilience during floods
15:39 - Genevieve Wright on international examples of how nature is being used to stop flooding
21:37 - Alice Simpson-Young on barriers for implementing nature-based solutions in Sydney
26:36 - How do we shift nature-based solutions to 'business as usual'?
31:29 - Panel discussion begins
31:52 - What are quick ways to embed nature-based solutions?
35:36 - How can we integrate nature-based solutions and Disaster Adaptation Guidelines overview
44:18 - The success of the GreenWay project
53:07 - The Botany Wetlands system and tackling policy
1:05:11 - Q+A begins
1:22:02 - Conclusion
Speakers
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The 2025 Iain McCalman Lecture was delivered by Dr Mitch Gibbs as he reflected on his journey as an Indigenous researcher, exploring how collaboration with First Nations communities can transform environmental research. How can trust, collaboration, and co-designed strategies transform our relationship with the environment, fostering genuine Caring for Country in practice?
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome from Prof David Schlosberg
02:48 - Mitch's early life growing up in Willawarrin, learning from the land
05:19 - Mitch's journey through Western education, from Honours to PhD
11:32 - Post-PhD and journey to incorporating Indigenous knowledge into academia
12:55 - Current projects to include Indigenous knowledges
26:54 - Fulbright Fellowship and work with Swinomish and Samish nations in North America
36:19 - Towards the future
37:50 - Prof Maria Byrne responds
Speakers:
Dr Mitch Gibbs, University of Sydney
Professor David Schlosberg, Sydney Environment Institute
Professor Maria Byrne (respondent), School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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As climate change accelerates, Pacific Island nations face the twin challenges of increasing climate vulnerability and financial constraints that limit their ability to invest in resilience and recovery. This podcast will explore what a just and effective climate finance system could look like in the next decade and the structural barriers that must be overcome to achieve transformative change. This podcast was recorded as part of the Climate justice and loss and damage in the Pacific conference.
Timestamps:
00:51 - Introduction
05:54 - Loss and damage debates need to engage with a dual debt crisis: the ecological debt owed by the Global North to the Global South and how this is entangled with broader questions of justice
18:52 - The Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) as the first Pacific-led, owned and managed regional resilience financing facility for community climate and disaster resilience
31:29 - The dual challenge faced by many developing countries: unsustainable debt and increasing climate vulnerability
42:50 - Q+A
Speakers:
Associate Professor Kate Owens (Chair), Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Finau Soqo, Manager, Pacific Resilience Facility
Magalie Masamba, law and policy advisor
Dr Julia Dehm, La Trobe University
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As climate change intensifies, Pacific Island communities are facing profound losses of land, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and ways of life. How can Pacific-led solutions shape just responses to loss and damage? This podcast was recorded as part of the Climate justice and loss and damage in the Pacific conference.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Introduction
05:14 - Discussion of Pasifika Network Loss and Damage
12:53 - Building resilience and achieving climate justice in the Pacific
26:20 - Exploring the gendered dimensions of rural Australian community disaster responses and resilience building, highlighting women’s experiences
39:33 - Q+A
Speakers:
Professor David Schlosberg (Chair), Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
Venaisi Uluilakeba, coordinator for the Pasifika Network Loss and Damage
Lavetanalagi (Lagi) Seru, climate justice activist
Dr Rebecca McNaught, University Centre for Rural Health
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As climate change intensifies, Pacific Island communities are facing profound losses of land, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and ways of life. How can Pacific-led solutions shape just responses to loss and damage? This podcast was recorded as part of the Climate justice and loss and damage in the Pacific conference.
Timestamps:
00:50 - Introduction
05:15 - Foundational principles of multi-species justice (Dany Celermajer)
16:50 - Recognising environmental legal rights in the South Pacific (Ed Couzens)
30:30 - How the Paris Agreement fails to acknowledge the more-than-human (Rosemary Lyster)
43:40 - Q+A
Speakers:
Dr Scott Webster (Chair), Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
Professor Danielle Celermajer, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
Associate Professor Ed Couzens, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Professor Rosemary Lyster, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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In this instalment of the SEI Podcast Series, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development Professor Surya Deva unveils his Climate Justice: Loss and Damage report, just days after its presentation to the UN General Assembly. Professor Deva presents a climate justice framework with four pillars: mitigation, adaptation, remediation, and transformation, underpinned by 12 human rights principles. Professor Deva proposes a range of actions for states, international financial institutions, and businesses to address loss and damage.
Timestamps:
00:49 - Welcome and introduction by Professor Rosemary Lyster
06:39 - Professor Deva's introductory remarks
07:00 - Discussion on climate justice frameworks
30:59 - Professor David Schlosberg's response
38:00 - How do we implement the framework?
39:18 - Professor Deva responds
42:30 - Closing comments
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In this instalment of The SEI Podcast Series, renowned scholar Kyle Whyte will share his experiences serving the Biden administration, environmental justice organisations, and Tribal nations. In one of its earliest moves, the Biden Administration made a historic commitment to advancing environmental justice, significantly increasing federal programs, funding, and public awareness on the issue. This bold approach has been heralded as a "once in a lifetime" investment, creating new pathways for justice, equity, and environmental sustainability. But four years later, what has been the outcome? How have these expansive policies impacted the communities they were designed to serve? What are the successes, challenges, and ongoing barriers in this unprecedented investment?
Timestamps
00:50 - Introduction and welcome
03:57 - Kyle's opening address
30:52 - David and Kyle begin their discussion
Speakers
Professor Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan
Professor David Schlosberg, Sydney Environment Institute
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In this instalment of The SEI Podcast Series, hear from experts from as they explore if valuing nature economically can lead to responsible environmental stewardship or if it undermines its innate value. Can we balance the financial valuation of nature with ethical stewardship, or do market mechanisms risk commodifying what is inherently invaluable?
Timestamps:
00:50 - Welcome and introduction
6:22 - Are there are mechanisms to protect what’s left of our natural world?
10:22 - What role do financial markets in driving positive environmental outcomes?
18:06 - How can governments better regulate nature markets to ensure transparency and effectiveness?
24:26 - How can the concept of nature markets align with Indigenous and community approaches?
30:40 - Heading towards 2040, how do we see a price on nature contributing to the protection of the environment?
38:50 - Q+A
Speakers:
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In this instalment of The SEI Podcast Series, hear from experts as they explore the potential of nature-based solutions, like wetlands and mangroves, in acting as climate buffer infrastructure. They will share new findings from SEI’s project Examining climate buffer projects in the Philippines and feature other case studies from Australia and the Pacific, that address how justice and biodiversity issues can be addressed alongside climate adaptation solutions.
Timestamps:
00:51 - Welcome and introductions
05:22 - How do mangroves function as a climate buffer?
09:06 - The effectiveness of nature-based solutions compared with traditional engineering solutions
13:00 - The importance of Indigenous and local knowledges on informing the design and implementation of nature-based solutions
17:45 - Overview of the Blue Heart Sunshine Coast Project and how project ownership and responsibility is shared with the local communities
24:48 - How do we envision nature-based solutions transforming cities and rural landscapes to enhance climate resilience and biodiversity in the years ahead?
33:54 - Q+A section
46:03 - Conclusion
Speakers:
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Experiencing a disaster is often the catalyst for communities to realise the importance of being prepared, particularly when people have been forced to rely on each other in the absence of outside help. This vignette highlights how some local communities have since formed grassroots resilience groups to ensure that recovery, climate adaptation and preparation for future disasters occurs at the local community level.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
Listeners are advised that this vignette describes the aftermath of catastrophic flooding. It may be distressing to some listeners, so please take care. If you need to talk to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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During and after disasters, social media platforms become critical communication tools that enable the sharing of information, linking of donations and volunteers with those who need assistance, and help local groups to coordinate recovery activities. This vignette highlights how social media can aid small or remote communities who find themselves beyond the reach of government, emergency management and social service agencies and in need of external support to bring in what is needed.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
Listeners are advised that this vignette describes flood-affected homes and communities. It may be distressing to some listeners, so please take care. If you need to talk to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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Community-led actions are enabled through their ability to draw on local networks, skills and knowledges to respond swiftly and flexibly in times of crisis. This vignette describes how a family drew upon their ‘everyday’ networks around work, school, sports and their neighbourhood to organise response and recovery support across multiple floods.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
Listeners are advised that this vignette mentions flooding and bushfire events. It may be distressing to some listeners, so please take care. If you need to talk to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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Disaster-affected communities frequently emphasise the need to ‘know your neighbours’ – know who they are, what their needs and plans may be and what skills and resources they have. This vignette demonstrates how for some communities this takes the form of warden or street facilitator networks; people who understand the lay of the land, can serve as a point of contact for advice and organise street-level disaster preparation and readiness activities.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
Listeners are advised that this vignette mentions bushfire events and describes the lead-up to the 2019-20 bushfire crisis. It may be distressing to some listeners, so please take care. If you need to talk to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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Flood-affected communities do not remain idle when the need is urgent. This vignette covers one way in which community members organised a system of tracking and coordinating boat rescues to save lives and to minimise the substantial risk taken by those on the water.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
Listeners are advised that this vignette describes people stranded on their roofs due to rising floodwaters. It may be distressing to some listeners, so please take care. If you need to talk to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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In recent years, communities across New South Wales have faced catastrophic bushfires and floods. These have been described as ‘unprecedented’ in their scales and as ‘the new normal’ due to climate change. In many respects, these disasters have had compounding impacts as people endure them one after another and concurrently with other crises – an ongoing global pandemic, disruptions to supply chains, inflation, and a housing crisis.
‘Stories are the Toolkit’ is a vignette series that illuminates community-led action. The stories are based on interviews with 68 individuals who, in their different ways, contributed to community-led response, recovery and adaptation across three regions in New South Wales: the Northern Rivers, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.
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In this instalment of SEI's four-part Climate and Biodiversity Crises Series, in partnership with Henry Halloran Trust, an expert panel will discuss how concepts of multispecies justice can inform planning for nature-based solutions, striving to rebalance the relationship between human development and the environment.
Timestamps:
00:53 - Welcome and introduction
11:49 - How does multispecies justice influence policy in the EU?
17:39 - What are the trade-offs between meeting our housing needs in Australia, and preserving nature?
24:26 - What is the nature roadmap for the built environment?
32:52 - Council strategies
38:26 - How would a focus on multispecies justice change how we approached urban planning?
45:39 - The black roof ban
52:48 - How do developers respond to the focus on nature and biodiversity?
1:00:58 - Shifting thinking away from making nature conform to our expectations
1:04:44 - Q+A begins
Speakers:
Nicole Gurran (Chair), urban planning researcher
Gwilym Griffiths, urban greening expert
Adrienne Keane, researcher and urban planner
Elham Monavari, Green Building Council of Australia
Christopher Raymond, University of Helsinki
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