100 Climate Conversations: Heidi Lee Beyond Zero Emissions

Heidi Lee will be in conversation with journalist Yaara Bou Melhem, recorded live at Powerhouse as part of 100 Climate Conversations. Entry is free, but bookings are essential as places are limited.

100 Climate Conversations is a two-year survey of visionary Australians who are accelerating the net zero carbon revolution. To find out more and subscribe to the podcast visit 100climateconversations.com.

Heidi Lee was appointed chief executive of think tank Beyond Zero Emissions in 2020. Beyond Zero Emissions’ independent research and innovative solutions show how Australia can prosper in a zero-emissions economy. Its 2020 publication, Million Jobs Plan, lays out a plan for how renewables and low emission projects could deliver 1.8 million new jobs around Australia in the next five years. Lee, a former architect, is an expert in sustainable buildings and urban design. She is passionate about low emission, locally made materials that can diversify and strengthen the local manufacturing sector.

Yaara Bou Melhem is a Walkley award-winning journalist and documentary maker who has made films in the remotest corners of Australia and around the world. Her debut documentary feature, Unseen Skies, which interrogates the inner workings of mass surveillance, computer vision and artificial intelligence through the works of US artist Trevor Paglen, was screened in competition at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival. She is currently directing a series for the ABC and is the inaugural journalist-in-residence at the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas working on journalistic experimental film.