Kate Auty discusses the threats and risks of climate change with Anne Telford

Kate Auty played a key role in the first climate change conference to be staged in Shepparton.

Professor Auty was the master of ceremonies at the Slap Tomorrow forum, “Climate change: a wake-up call” in 2013 that attracted more than 600 people.

She has never relented in her attempts to alert people to the risks and threats of climate change, from working with Strathbogie Voices in her home town of Euroa to spread the message to willingly speaking at a host of events throughout Victoria and the rest of Australia.

Professor Auty was recently reappointed as Commissioner for Sustainability and Environment with the Australian Capital Territory.

Professor Auty is also the 2014 Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.  Prior to this, she was the Victorian Government Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability.

Here she talks with Anne Telford at a North East Water community conference earlier this month. Watch the interview.