Just Transitions in Australia: Prospects for just low-carbon energy, home, and mobility futures
Presented by the Monash Energy 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: Sarah Pink, Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab
Researcher: Paris Hadfield, Monash Energy Institute
Panelists: Lynne Gallagher, Energy Consumers Australia
Kellie Caught, Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS)
Prof Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford
Just Transitions in Australia: Prospects for just low-carbon energy, home, and mobility futures
The second in our series on Just Transitions in Australia, this webinar explores the changes that would be needed across overlapping domains of energy, home, and mobility to achieve a socially just transition to decarbonisation. A narrow focus on the technological substitution of fossil fuels for electric and renewable alternatives undermines the real need to reimagine energy, housing and mobility systems and technologies. Attention to accessibility, participation, and the fair distribution of costs and benefits highlights the value of local collective action and improved public services.
What steps do we need to take to find a viable and just way forward? What can be learned from existing decarbonisation efforts across government, civil society, the private sector and everyday life realities. The panel will discuss these questions and reflect on emerging pathways for just energy, home, and mobility futures in Australia and beyond.
This research project is supported/funded by the British Academy’s Just Transition to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific Programme
Thursday 10 March 2022
7-8pm AEDT
8-9am UTC
Event Details
- Date:
- 10 March 2022 at 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Description
Presented by the Monash Energy 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: Sarah Pink, Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab
Researcher: Paris Hadfield, Monash Energy Institute
Panelists: Lynne Gallagher, Energy Consumers Australia
Kellie Caught, Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS)
Prof Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford
Just Transitions in Australia: Prospects for just low-carbon energy, home, and mobility futures
The second in our series on Just Transitions in Australia, this webinar explores the changes that would be needed across overlapping domains of energy, home, and mobility to achieve a socially just transition to decarbonisation. A narrow focus on the technological substitution of fossil fuels for electric and renewable alternatives undermines the real need to reimagine energy, housing and mobility systems and technologies. Attention to accessibility, participation, and the fair distribution of costs and benefits highlights the value of local collective action and improved public services.
What steps do we need to take to find a viable and just way forward? What can be learned from existing decarbonisation efforts across government, civil society, the private sector and everyday life realities. The panel will discuss these questions and reflect on emerging pathways for just energy, home, and mobility futures in Australia and beyond.
This research project is supported/funded by the British Academy’s Just Transition to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific Programme
Thursday 10 March 2022
7-8pm AEDT
8-9am UTC