Lowy Institute

Climate change is real and a significant challenge facing humanity. In this event in the Lowy Institute’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Bjørn Lomborg and Michael Green, two world-leading experts on the subject of climate change, will addressed the need for innovative solutions to achieve significant results, and how our actions can affect related issues: poverty, disease and the lack of affordable housing worldwide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Lowy Institute was privileged to host Ms Joan Rohlfing, President of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the world's premier non-government organisation addressing the dangers of nuclear weapons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

International conflicts have declined dramatically over the past 60 years. At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 23 February, Professor Andrew Mack examined the nature of these positive changes, their causes and their implications for international security policies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 8 February, Mr Pierre Krähenbühl, Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (the ICRC) addressed the Lowy Institute on the subject of how recent trends in integrated missions, the militarisation of aid and increasingly complex coordination challenges are impacting on the international community’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance and how we might help build greater community resilience to conflict.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 2 February, the second half of the Wednesday Lunch series was launched with a discussion by three Lowy Institute scholars, Rory Medcalf, Annmaree O'Keeffe and Sam Roggeveen, on how Australia should be preparing for some of the big global and regional policy challenges in the second decade of the 21st century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Wednesday 19 January 2011, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, The Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, spoke at the Lowy Institute on opportunities for the Commonwealth in a networked world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Friday 10 December, the Lowy Institute brought together the Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP, Minister for Trade, and an expert panel including Alex Thursby, the Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, Europe & America, ANZ Banking Group and Anwarul Hoda, the Chair Professor of ICRIER’s Trade Policy and WTO Research Program in New Delhi, for a keynote speech and an extended discussion on the forces shaping Australia’s trade policy environment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Wednesday 8 December, Cate Sumner and Tim Lindsey launched their new Lowy Institute Paper, 'Courting reform'. Opening remarks on the paper were provided by the Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, The Hon. Diana Bryant, and Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, The Hon. Patrick Keane.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his new Analysis, 'The stakeholder spectrum: China and the United Nations', Michael Fullilove describes how China conducts itself in New York and the positions it takes on issues such as peacekeeping, Iran and North Korea. He lays out these approaches on what he calls a ‘stakeholder spectrum’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In March 2011 the National Museum of Australia will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of its building in Canberra. We are well used to the idea that the Museum has a role in explaining national identity. Yet the National Museum - like museums around the world - has to make a place for itself not only in a national context but in a global one. At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 1 December, the Museum’s Director, Andrew Sayers, explored the new phenomenon of the 'world museum' that has developed as institutions in Britain, Europe and the United States have become engaged with global communities, including Australia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.