FAB Canberra

About FAB Canberra

FAB Canberra, a podcast from the Centre For A Better Canberra (FAB CBR), brings you into the conversation with leading experts exploring what makes Canberra great and how we can make it even better. Our first series, Carbon Neutral Canberra, explores the Australian Capital Territory’s impressive journey to 100% renewable energy, and the challenges ahead to get the rest of the way down the path to net zero by 2045 – a legislated mandate. Canberra has the ambition to be carbon neutral by 2045. We're already world-leading as one of the few cities powered by 100% renewable electricity. But there's more to do. FAB CBR leaders Martin Greenwood and Professor Chris Wallace talk environmentalism, town planning, architecture, activism, international human rights, urban microforests, atmospheric science, economics, infrastructure and policymaking to explore what a carbon neutral Canberra can and should look like – and how we can make it a reality. Hear about carbon neutral reform – achieved and aspired to – from experts driving change in Australia’s capital. The Centre For A Better Canberra is the University of Canberra think tank established as part of UC’s civic university commitment to Canberra and the region.

Publisher

The Centre for a Better Canberra

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2024

Latest episode

13 Nov 2024

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Nov 2024

   Carbon Neutral Canberra #5: Bricks, Mortar, Concrete and Carbon

   Jane Smith, architect and Max Thompson, urban planner, explore how Canberra's built environment can achieve net zero by 2045 through innovative architecture and infrastructure solutions.

2. 

   23 Oct 2024

   Carbon Neutral Canberra #4: Electrify everything! Households’ role in Canberra’s next big carbon neutral push

   Join UC Centre for Environmental Governance director, Professor Jacki Schirmer, and Canberra Business School Associate Dean Research, Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett, in conversation on how to help households go electric faster, and adapt safely to accelerating climate change.

3. 

   18 Sept 2024

   Carbon Neutral Canberra #3: The UN Resolution on a healthy environment as a human right: Implications for Canberra

   Join Associate Professor Cristy Clark (Canberra Law School, UC) and ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, Dr Sophie Lewis, in conversation on the implications of the UN General Assembly resolution on a healthy environment as a human right.

4. 

   21 Aug 2024

   Carbon Neutral Canberra #2: From Kitchen Sink to Carbon Sink

   Join urban microforest expert Edwina Robinson, and internationally recognised environmentalist and former Clinton White House sustainable development advisor Molly Harriss Olson for a conversation about how we can turn suburbs into carbon neutral powerhouses, and what trying to transition your home along the carbon neutral path is really like.

5. 

   24 Jul 2024

   Carbon Neutral Canberra #1: From 100% net renewable electricity to net zero

   Join distinguished environmentalist and town planner, UC Professor Emerita Barbara Norman, and leading renewable energy expert and former ACT Deputy Chief Minister Simon Corbell, for a conversation about how Canberra's world-leading 100% net renewable electricity policy happened, and what it can tell us about achieving the ambitious carbon neutral target by 2045.

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