"The Face of Climate Change" - Dr. Ian Fry to Deliver Lodhi Memorial Lecture

7:00 PM (AST)
Livestream
Register for Zoom HERE.

UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, Dr. Ian Fry, will deliver the 2023 Lodhi Memorial Lecture via livestream on Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00 pm. (AST). Register for the Zoom event HERE.

In his lecture, "The Face of Climate Change," Dr. Fry will discuss how wealthy nations and major corporations are primarily responsible for environmental damage caused by the effects of climate change.

"G20 members, for instance, account for 78 per cent of emissions over the last decade," he explained. "Human-induced climate change is the largest, most pervasive threat to the natural environment and societies the world has ever experienced, and the poorest countries are paying the heaviest price."

Dr Ian Fry was appointed as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2022.

He is dual citizen of Australia and Tuvalu and is an international environmental law and policy expert. He worked for the Tuvalu government for over 21 years and was appointed as their Ambassador for Climate Change and Environment 2015-2019. His work primarily focussed on mitigation policies and loss and damage associated the Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol and related instruments.

Dr Fry also teaches part-time at the Fenner School of Environment and Society of the Australian National University. He specialises in international environmental policy, international climate change policy and environmental law. He is the Pacific Regional Representative to the United Nations for the International Council on Environmental Law, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.