Climate change moves to G20 forefront

A conference hosted by the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise in October asked why climate change was not on the G20 Summit agenda.
A conference hosted by the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise in October asked why climate change was not on the G20 Summit agenda.

Ignoring climate change is not an option, Professor Jeremy Williams told a Brisbane conference just a month before the G20 Leaders Summit.

The Director of Griffith’s Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise was speaking at an‘Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20’ event at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

His words proved prescient as climate change emerged as a key topic in the build-up to and during the weekend’s G20 discussions and deliberations.

The impact and importance of the ‘Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20’ conference has been considered by fourof the delegates who attended.

Griffith University alumni Elsbeth Fahrner, Christopher Hill, and Brittany Laidlaw joined forced withDr Stefanie Celine Roth, IMEMS Environmental, to produce this key paper on the conference.