OUR SPEAKERS:
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'Alopi Latukefu, Director, Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education 'Alopi joined the centre as Director in February 2023. Prior to accepting the role with ERC 'Alopi was most recently the Director for the Global Education and Scholarships team in DFAT - managing amongst other thing Australia’s prestigious and long standing inbound scholarship program - the Australia Awards. 'Alopi has extensive experience working on Pacific issues including establishing one of the first web based network and information sites (the South Pacific Information Network - SPIN) during his time with the Islands-Australia research program (ANU) in the mid nineties. 'Alopi grew up in PNG as a child where his late parents Rev Dr Sione Latukefu and Dr Ruth Latukefu (nee Fink) worked for twenty years educating many of the Pacific’s future leaders and scholars.
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Rosaline Parker, Project Officer Pacific Climate Fellowship Program
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Since 2006, the PCP has been taking steps to help ensure that the voice of Pacific Islands on climate change is heard loud and clear in the Australian and global community. Our speakers have presented on a range of topics, including:
- The impacts of climate change on Pacific Islands, particularly Kiribati and Tuvalu
- Climate justice in the Pacific: climate change as a human rights issue
- Climate science
- Climate action- what you can do to help
- Eco-justice/spirituality
- Laudato Si, Pope Francis's powerful encyclical on sustainability and climate justice
- Cross-cultural awareness: differences between Pacific and Australian cultures
If you would like to book one of our speakers, please contact us at [email protected]