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Applications are open for a new PhD Scholarship opportunity on Resilient Melbourne in Action: Embedding resilience thinking and practice in urban governance.

Prof Don Henry has been awarded an Order of Australia as recognition for his significant work in protecting Australia's native wildlife and the environment. Prof Henry has dedicated his career to campaiging on environmental issues and received an AM as part of the 2018 Australia Day honours.

In an address to the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the award-winning author and scientist describes why, in the face of seemingly unstoppable global warming, cities could offer our best chance of averting catastrophe.

The international climate negotiations this year have been presided over by a South Pacific nation for the first time - Fiji - with Germany hosting in Bonn. The focus of the negotiations has been to continue to develop the detailed rules needed to implement the historic Paris climate Agreement. They will aim to lay out a roadmap for a stocktake and review of the national commitments for climate action by all nations over the next couple of years. This is a critically important opportunity to encourage effective implementation of national commitments and the needed building of the ambition if we are to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.

MSSI, in partnership with Chancellery, has led the development of a cross-faculty response to a Federal Parliamentary inquiry in the Australian Government’s Role in the Development of Cities.

The towers crowding out the centre of Australian cities are a symptom of failed governance and planning, and it’s threatening any transition to ecocities

As cities continue their relentless sprawl, how do we retrofit existing suburbs to move toward a sustainable future?

At conferences around the world presenters are being thanked for the time and effort put into preparing for the event and the distances many have to travel in order to attend them. While the need to come together to tackle global challenges is unavoidable, the environmental costs to gather such an international delegation can be large. This conundrum weighed heavily on the ECOCITY World Summit organisers and so we decided to do things a little differently.