Professor Hughes was speaking at the launch of the Climate
Council’s latest report: “The silent killer: climate change the health impacts of extreme heat”.
Fellow speaker, Research Professor at the University Western
Australia, a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a patron
and founding director of the Telethon Kids Institute, and former Australian of
the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley, said Future Earth was something new to her.
However, again illustrating her willingness to explore, Professor
Stanley said she intended to get involved with Future Earth just as soon as she could.
Future Earth describes itself: “As a major international
research platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate our
transformations to a sustainable world.
“Bringing together and in partnership with existing
programmes on global environmental change*, Future Earth is an international
hub to coordinate new, interdisciplinary approaches to research on three
themes: Dynamic Planet, Global Sustainable Development and Transformations
towards Sustainability.
“It also aims to be a platform for international engagement
to ensure that knowledge is generated in partnership with society and users of
science. It is open to scientists of all disciplines, natural and social, as
well as engineering, the humanities and law,” it says.
The Climate Council’s latest report was launched last week
at a special function in the Ella Latham Auditorium at Melbourne’s Royal
Children’s Hospital.
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