Check out our calendar of events and participate in our seminars, public lectures and more.

Colourful bins hang from a brick wall
6 Dec 2024 | 11am - 12pm

Exploring Urban Sustainable Waste Management Experiments in China

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Light shines on a flower and leaves against a black background.
11 Dec 2024 | 12:30pm

If you’ve been involved with The Fenner School in 2024 as a student, academic, professional staff member or affiliate, and you’ve captured a moment you’d like to share with us that speaks to this year’s theme, send it in!

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A group of academics, students and staff gather for a photo.
11 Dec 2024 | 12:30 - 3pm

You're invited to the Fenner School of Environment & Society End of Year picnic.

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The Ba river winds through a valley in fiji
18 Dec 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Environmental monitoring of ecosystems within waterways and riparian corridors is challenging due to constraints on the spatio-temporal coverage that can be reached by extension workers and environmental regulators. Spatial prioritisation may support the planning for allocation of finite resources for monitoring, conservation and rehabilitation.

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Past events

14 Aug 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Explore the sustainability of our planet with an economic lens. Will 'Green Growth' maintain prosperity, or are declines imminent? Using data and projections up to 2050, this talk assesses future trends in global well-being.

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7 Aug 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Rising Seas, Rising Islands: climate diplomacy at the end of the Cold War

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Tuvalu. ‘In the western Pacific, sea levels rose faster than anywhere else in the world between 1993 and 2015, and by 2050 they will continue to rise by an additional 0.10–0.25 metres.’
7 Aug 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Rising Seas, Rising Islands: climate diplomacy at the end of the Cold War

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29 Jul 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Explore how regional climate models reveal the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and urban growth on heat stress in China's Pearl and Yangtze River Deltas, highlighting the increasing risks of dangerous heat levels.

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24 Jul 2024 | 1 - 2pm

Planetary health equity (PHE) is defined here as the equitable enjoyment of good health in a stable Earth system. PHE is in crisis. Despite evidence of these massive challenges and multiple calls to action, why has there been so little effective remedial action? And more importantly, how can we overcome this failure?

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4 Jul 2024 | 6 - 7pm

Please join us for the memorial lecture in honour of Emeritus Professor Will Steffen, one of Australia’s most influential and respected climate scientists.

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26 Jun 2024 | 11 - 11:30am

Interested in learning more about Pollution in Practice - Special Topic (ENVS3016)? Come along to our online information session to chat with the course conveners and have all your questions answered.

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24 Jun 2024 | 11 - 11:30am

Interested in learning more about Sustainable Urban Systems - Singapore Field School (ENVS2012)? Come along to our online information session to chat with the course conveners and have all your questions answered.

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13 Jun 2024 | 5:30 - 7:30pm

This report summarises a broad expanse of literature about current and projected climate change impacts on the Australian Alps and presents new Australia-first modelling of climate change impacts on the Australian ski industry.

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