Climate Integrity Summit 2025
Featuring a range of prominent international and local experts, the 2025 Climate Integrity Summit will show Australia’s domestic and international integrity influences the international context and how the 2025 federal election outcome will shape global climate action.
Speeches and Panel Recordings
In order of appearance.
Opening Remarks | Dr Richard Denniss
“Demanding better from our leaders is often met with threats like ‘well if you push too hard then you’ll get nothing’.”
“Ignore this. It shows you’re winning.”
Redefining Global Security | Dr Helder da Costa
Integrity at home shapes global outcomes | Polly Hemming
“Every person in this room holds power. And together we hold quite a bit of it. The only difference is whether you want to use it to uphold the status quo, or to change it.”
Small Islands making waves of change: Legacy of AOSIS | Ilana Seid
“We can’t talk about a blue COP if we continue with the fossil fuel industry. It just means that everything we’re doing in the blue sector is being counterbalanced and wiped away with everything that we’re doing brown.”
Creating jobs and building a good society while meeting the global warming challenge | Doug Cameron
Real Zero. Real corporate leadership | Dr Shanta Barley
“Australia does have a mechanism in place, the Safeguard, and it could be great with a small but necessary tweak that rapidly phases down offset use.”
“Just like every other credible grown-up cap and trade system in the world, it could drive real and rapid reductions in emissions, paving the way for Australia to reach real zero.”
The Shifting Geopolitical Order | Dr Emma Shortis
Communicating with integrity: Building foundations for climate action | Panel
- Dr Mila Rosenthal, Executive Director, International Science Reserve & Cofounder, Planet Reimagined
- Jonathan Birchall, Lecturer, International and Public Affairs Department, Columbia University & Lead Communications Officer, Open Society Foundations
- Craig Foster AM, Human rights activist & Australian retired soccer player
Chaired by Polly Hemming
Beyond the Energy Security Myth: Japan-Aus LNG | Yuki Tanabe
“The Japanese Ambassador here in Australia said, ‘Japan needs Australian gas for keeping the neon lights of Tokyo,’ but it’s not true.”
Australia and the Pacific ‘Family’ | Savenaca Narube
Intergenerational Climate Equity | Senator David Pocock
“We will at some point get to a stage as a culture where we say, ‘Of course we have a duty of care to young people,’ and not just in words, in actually setting up the way that we make decisions in this country.”
Closing Remarks | Dr Richard Denniss
“There was a protest at a gas conference, and the next day, the South Australian Parliament changed the law. The next day they criminalised protest.”
“If protest was ineffective, why would they do that?”
Graphic Recording
Thank you to the incredible team at Sketch Group who produced these graphic recordings of the Summit!
Gallery and Program
Speakers:
- Antonia Burke, Community Leader
- Craig Foster AM, Human rights activist & Australian retired soccer player
- Senator David Pocock, Independent Senator for the Australian Capital Territory
- The Hon Doug Cameron, Former Senator for New South Wales
- Dr Emma Shortis, International & Security Affairs Director, The Australia Institute
- Dr Helder da Costa, General Secretary, The g7+ Secretariat
- Her Excellency Ilana Seid, Ambassador and Permanent Representative for the Republic of Palau to the United Nations
- Jennifer Robinson, Australian human rights lawyer, Doughty Street Chambers in London (Jennifer Robinson appears by arrangement with Claxton Speakers International.)
- Jonathan Birchall, Lecturer, International and Public Affairs Department, Columbia University & Lead Communications Officer, Open Society Foundations
- Dr Mila Rosenthal, Executive Director, International Science Reserve & Co-founder, Planet Reimagined
- Polly Hemming, Climate & Energy Director, The Australia Institute
- Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director, The Australia Institute
- Savenaca Narube, Unity Fiji Party Leader & Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji
- Dr Shanta Barley, Chief Climate Scientist, Fortescue
- Yuki Tanabe, Sustainable Development and Aid Program Coordinator, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society
At the 2023 United Nations Climate Conference (COP28), in Dubai, the Australian Government, along with the parties of the Paris Agreement, signed an international agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels
As the world’s 13th largest economy and the world’s third largest fossil fuel exporter, Australia has a special responsibility to lead the effort in a global transition away from fossil fuels and to help our nation’s trading partners, regional neighbours and those most vulnerable to the climate crisis to respond accordingly.
When
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Where
Australian Parliament House - Theatre
Parliament Drive
Canberra, ACT 2600