Interview with Kate Auty 4th December 2015 Professor Kate Auty is the Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at University of Melbourne and Chair of the Sustainable Society institute of University of Melbourne. Organizing member of Strathbogie Voices and an AWIA member speaking from Paris. Q. What were you doing just prior […]
#AWiA2Paris blog 2: Action and reflection
Historically, the COP21 event will now always be connected to the atrocities that Paris experienced just prior to its opening. Did the event form part of the rationale for the shootings and bombing? I don’t know, nevertheless the fact that the city was planning for it and poised for its […]
#AWiA2Paris blog 1: action in the face of sobering reality
COP 21 is being held in a large exhibition centre about 20 minutes by train from the centre of Paris. Getting there is easy and the organisation very efficient as from the train station there were fleets of buses to take us to the site itself. Once there we passed […]
#AWiA2Paris Women leading solutions on the frontlines of Climate Change
Australian Women in Agriculture are excited to announce that our organisation will be represented at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) events in Paris this week. This will be an historic event, which will, for the first time in 20 years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding […]