ClimateRelay
Series 1:
Building
Building is a series of interviews with diverse thinkers and doers from the worlds of research, design, insurance, engineering and farming. Each in turn discusses how their work intersects with climate and building. Five full interviews will be published weekly, from next week, however we kick off this week with a ClimateRelay - a short excerpt from each of five interviews running back-to-back. In so doing, ClimateRelay is designed to demonstrate that climate issues cannot be discussed in silos. The impacts of climate change are intrinsically cross-disciplinary, requiring us to think in complex, non-linear ways.
Series 1: Building
The road to Paris is steep
Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
Professor Dan Hill
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Series 1: Building
Buildings as habitat
Future Food System
Joost Bakker
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Series 1: Building
Hemp to the rescue
Outback Hemp
Doug Rennie
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Series 1: Building
The housing insurance crisis
University of Queensland
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski
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Series 1: Building
Rethinking big buildings
Hassell Studios
Sam Peart
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ClimateRelay
Series 2:
Climate Positive
Climate change is an enormous planetary challenge that can seem quite insurmountable. It has the potential to impact every little corner of our lives, often leaving climate anxiety in its wake. Series 2 of Climate360° explores what it means to think and act positively in relation to climate, at many different scales.
There are two things that should, however, be immediately acknowledged. To think positively does not mean to bath in blind optimism. Being climate positive, rather, means giving hope some work to do.
Some of the most energetic people we have spoken to about the work they do don’t necessarily ‘sound positive’. It can be hard. Gruelling even. But in this series of conversations, it became quickly clear that when you find yourself metaphorically ‘in the trenches’, the energy to keep going and stay focused… that is perhaps the greatest expression of positivity.
For this series we start something of a grounding conversation with Ross Garnaut, reminding ourselves of the journey we have been on over the last thirty years, considering Australia’s action on climate in the wider global perspective. We then explore the world of corporate responsibility, and what it means to keep the pressure on the market to clean itself up, before turning our attention to the work of academia and the role it plays in having a positive impact on policy. At the more local scale we look at people power and the possibility for change in rural Australia, before finishing with a conversation about what all this means for the individual. How to look after your mental health, even in the darkest days.
Series 2: Climate Positive
After the climate wars
Professor
Ross Garnaut AC
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Series 2: Climate Positive
Cleaning Up the Market
Executive Director
Brynn O'Brien
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Series 2: Climate Positive
Putting Research to Work
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Series 2: Climate Positive
Local Heros
Juliette Milbank & Matthew Charles-Jones
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Series 2: Climate Positive
Climate and You
Chief Executive Officer, Psychology for a Safe Climate
Bronwyn Gresham
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ClimateRelay
Series 3:
Energy
Of all the diverse ways in which the world is responding to a warming planet nothing compares to the speedy transition away from carbon intensive energy to renewable energy. While construction, agriculture, forestry, transport and a dozen other areas of our economy need to decarbonise in a hundred and one different ways, the decarbonisation of our energy networks is the most effective way to bring down greenhouse gas emissions.
In this context, the Australian Government’s stated ambition to deliver 82% clean energy by 2030 is commendable, if somewhat shadowed by an energy sector that remains worried about ‘deep structural issues’ at the heart of that energy transition.
For series 3 of Climate360º we delve into not only the technical and engineering aspects of energy, but also the social, economic and cultural dimensions, with one or two surprising side bars along the way. Energy is deeply woven into our social networks, cultural identity and our national economy, in ways that are not always expected.
Join us as we talk a journey into Australia’s energy landscape, as we talk to scientists, engineers, business and community leaders and politicians.
Series 3: Energy
The Power of Politics
Independent MP
Zali Steggall
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TOPIC
The Power of Politics
GUEST/S
Zali Steggall
[Independent MP]
RELEASE
6am 08 June 2026
Series 3: Energy
The roadblocks aren't technical. They're political
Engineer
Saul Griffith
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