CHRISTCHURCH

6pm Tuesday 1 September

Aurora Centre, cnr Greers Road and Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch

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The Age of Resilience Panel Discussions

The Anthropocene Challenge

Experts argue that we are living in the age of the Anthropocene – the epoch when humanity has irrevocably altered the planet. Predictions of climate change impacts are dire – mass extinction of species, acidic oceans and extreme weather events. But can we turn our influence around and steer our global impact in a new direction towards a more sustainable future?

As momentum builds towards an international climate change agreement at the UN COP 21 conference in Paris, New Zealand and French experts discuss humanity’s capacity to adapt, become resilient and address the greatest challenge posed to human existence.

Chaired by Kim Hill for Radio New Zealand with panel members:

Professor David Frame, Director, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute (Victoria University)

Professor Catherine Larrère Professor of Philosophy (Sorbonne University, Paris), and President of the Foundation for Political Ecology

Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology (University of Auckland) and 2013 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year

Lucile Schmid, French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry and Deputy President of the think tank “La fabrique écologique"