Climate Solutions with Tim Flannery (2015/16)

Professor Tim Flannery is a globally renowned scientist and thought leader whose work has contributed significantly to a growing consensus for action around the critical issue of climate change.

His evidence-based approach has helped to inspire dramatic changes in how we understand the natural world and our responsibility to protect it, including the publication of 140 scientific papers and numerous books. He is perhaps most widely known as author of The Weather Makers, a book that has been read by millions and translated into more than 20 languages, and which has helped to influence the climate policies of international organizations and political leaders such as California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and British Columbia Premier, Gordon Campbell.

Throughout his work, Professor Flannery has continuously reached out to new audiences and created opportunities for authentic engagement. Whether convening global business leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Council, performing community-based outreach with the Australian Climate Commission, or serving on the Sustainability Advisory Committee of Tata Power in India, his work has helped to strengthen a global commitment to action and inform new ideas for how we can avert the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change.

With the release of his book, Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis, he continues to inform and inspire. Through the presentation of the Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University pays tribute to Professor Tim Flannery’s remarkable abilities as a dialogue practitioner, and his unswerving commitment to addressing one of our world’s most compelling and complex challenges.

Professor Flannery’s two-week award residency left a lasting legacy, including:

• Staging the Canada-wide launch for Professor Flannery’s book, Atmosphere of Hope
• Securing meetings with cabinet ministers from the British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario governments, for Tim Flannery and SFU to discuss climate action
• Receiving media coverage by 16 regional and national outlets, such as The Globe and Mail and The Hill Times, drawing attention to the need for action on climate change
• Publishing two summary reports highlighting ideas for climate action based on roundtables addressing climate action and business competitiveness, and ethical dilemmas of climate change 

• Tim Flannery: 'The next decade is going to be really tough'
  The Tyee, Sept. 28, 2015
• Innovation will be key to keeping B.C. at forefront of climate action
  Business in Vancouver, Oct. 15, 2015
• From Paris to the sky: Tim Flannery offers a third way
  The National Observer, Oct. 20, 2015
• Tim Flannery on climate change and what Canada can do
  Macleans, Oct. 26, 2015
• We need to cut GHGs harder, faster than we ever imagined
  The Hill Times, Oct. 26, 2015
• Tim Flannery
  CTV's Power Play, Oct. 27, 2015 (Podcast #37, at 1h47m)
• Australian climate scientist Tim Flannery: ‘The Great Barrier Reef is doomed’
  CBC Radio's Sunday Edition, Nov. 1, 2015
• Why Justin Trudeau's leadership at COP21 invites an appeal to 'the better angels of our natures'
  The Georgia Straight, Nov. 3, 2015 (by SFU's Prof. Ingrid Stefanovic)
• Advances in alternative energy (w/ Tim Flannery, Australian Climate Commissioner)
  Conversations That Matter, Nov. 6, 2015