Just Transitions in Australia: Moving Towards Low Carbon Lives Across Policy, Industry and Practice
Presented by the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and Royal Holloway University of London
Join us in a series of three webinars to hear and discuss the main findings of an international research collaboration on just transitions to low carbon lives in Australia across energy, mobilities, the home, work and technology.
Host: John Thwaites, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Researcher: Peter Adey, Royal Holloway University
Panelists: Felicity Wade, World Resources Institute
Rueben Berg, RJHB Consulting
Janet Hunt, Australia National University
Just Transitions in Australia: Moving Towards Low Carbon Lives Across Policy, Industry and Practice
A transition to a low-carbon economy is perhaps nowhere more crucial or contested than in Australia, a continent on the front line of global heating and climate change-induced bushfires, drought, flash floods and extreme temperatures. The heavy reliance on extractive industries for coal and minerals exposes some of the political and structural lock-ins to highly carbonised industries and lifestyles.
The heavy reliance on extractive industries for coal and minerals exposes some of the political and structural lock-ins to highly carbonised industries and lifestyles.
The Just Transitions in Australia report aggregates new and existing research to examine actual, possible, partial and failed, examples of ‘just transitions’ across multiple sectoral and societal domains (work, energy and industry, mobility, home, technologies). The project builds on a research partnership between Royal Holloway University of London, Monash University and a wider network of researchers and advisors in Australia to examine ‘just transitions’ to decarbonisation.
This research project is supported/funded by the British Academy’s Just Transition to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific Programme
Thursday 3 March 2022
7-8pm AEDT
8-9am UTC
Event Details
- Date:
- 3 March 2022 at 7:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Description
Presented by the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and Royal Holloway University of London
Join us in a series of three webinars to hear and discuss the main findings of an international research collaboration on just transitions to low carbon lives in Australia across energy, mobilities, the home, work and technology.
Host: John Thwaites, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Researcher: Peter Adey, Royal Holloway University
Panelists: Felicity Wade, World Resources Institute
Rueben Berg, RJHB Consulting
Janet Hunt, Australia National University
Just Transitions in Australia: Moving Towards Low Carbon Lives Across Policy, Industry and Practice
A transition to a low-carbon economy is perhaps nowhere more crucial or contested than in Australia, a continent on the front line of global heating and climate change-induced bushfires, drought, flash floods and extreme temperatures. The heavy reliance on extractive industries for coal and minerals exposes some of the political and structural lock-ins to highly carbonised industries and lifestyles.
The heavy reliance on extractive industries for coal and minerals exposes some of the political and structural lock-ins to highly carbonised industries and lifestyles.
The Just Transitions in Australia report aggregates new and existing research to examine actual, possible, partial and failed, examples of ‘just transitions’ across multiple sectoral and societal domains (work, energy and industry, mobility, home, technologies). The project builds on a research partnership between Royal Holloway University of London, Monash University and a wider network of researchers and advisors in Australia to examine ‘just transitions’ to decarbonisation.
This research project is supported/funded by the British Academy’s Just Transition to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific Programme
Thursday 3 March 2022
7-8pm AEDT
8-9am UTC