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UTSpeaks: Progress or procrastination? (Part 3 - Chris Riedy and open forum)
Jan 12, 2015
Can Australia lead the way with an effective climate action program?
Why is local and global action on climate change taking so long? Why are politicians, the media, scientists and industry chasing each other’s tails on the urgent issue of reducing carbon dioxide pollution? Almost two years on from the anticlimactic Copenhagen climate change summit, CO2 emissions are still rising. Why aren’t Australians willing to invest in protecting the future survival of their descendents?
This interactive forum takes stock of the current CO2 emissions and carbon tax debate and considers how a positive climate action program could work with the big polluters as well as foster community groups and households to be powerful change agents.
Speakers:
Dr Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor is a Lecturer in the UTS School of Management and researcher in the global politics of climate change, with a particular focus on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009 and Cancun Climate Summit in 2010. He is also part of the Steering Committee of Climate Action Network Australia and works closely with Climate Action Network International on a variety of global climate change policy issues.
Associate Professor James Goodman
James Goodman conducts collaborative research into social movements that pursue global justice and climate justice. He is a political sociologist concerned with ecological change and how societies respond to it. His current work puts special emphasis on the role of grassroots mobilisation in addressing the climate crisis.
Dr Chris Riedy
Chris Riedy is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures and President of the Climate Action Network Australia. He has particular expertise in energy policy, climate change response and socio-cultural change. He works as a facilitator and change agent to help deliver personal, organisational, systemic and cultural responses to sustainability challenges.
UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.
Use the hashtag #utspeaks to tweet about the lecture on Twitter.
Why is local and global action on climate change taking so long? Why are politicians, the media, scientists and industry chasing each other’s tails on the urgent issue of reducing carbon dioxide pollution? Almost two years on from the anticlimactic Copenhagen climate change summit, CO2 emissions are still rising. Why aren’t Australians willing to invest in protecting the future survival of their descendents?
This interactive forum takes stock of the current CO2 emissions and carbon tax debate and considers how a positive climate action program could work with the big polluters as well as foster community groups and households to be powerful change agents.
Speakers:
Dr Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor is a Lecturer in the UTS School of Management and researcher in the global politics of climate change, with a particular focus on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009 and Cancun Climate Summit in 2010. He is also part of the Steering Committee of Climate Action Network Australia and works closely with Climate Action Network International on a variety of global climate change policy issues.
Associate Professor James Goodman
James Goodman conducts collaborative research into social movements that pursue global justice and climate justice. He is a political sociologist concerned with ecological change and how societies respond to it. His current work puts special emphasis on the role of grassroots mobilisation in addressing the climate crisis.
Dr Chris Riedy
Chris Riedy is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures and President of the Climate Action Network Australia. He has particular expertise in energy policy, climate change response and socio-cultural change. He works as a facilitator and change agent to help deliver personal, organisational, systemic and cultural responses to sustainability challenges.
UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.
Use the hashtag #utspeaks to tweet about the lecture on Twitter.
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Chris Riedy, UTSpeaks, 28 September 2011
(Re)engaging communities in climate change response
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Why should communities be engaged?• We will all feel the impacts of climate change• Principle – impacted communities should be empowered to influence the outcomes
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Why should communities be engaged?• We will all feel the responses• Principle – impacted communities should be empowered to influence the outcomes
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Why should communities be engaged?• Carbon politics – need bipartisan support but politicians will not move until
sufficient votes are on the line• Carbon markets – businesses respond to market pull
Photo: AYCC
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Climate Change Think TankWhat can you do?
21 September 2011Source: ACF Consumption Atlas
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The self• Knowledge• Values• Attitudes• Frames• Habits
The group• Friends, family, peers, communities• Media• Social norms• Art and culture• Collective decision-making
The system• Local context• Technology and
infrastructure• The financial
landscape• Rules and institutions
Three influences on what we do
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Sometimes we can’t afford to do things that make sense
Zero carbon home Never pay an energy bill again Extra cost will pay for itself in
11 years But, adds 15% to upfront cost
Pay-as-you-save loan Loan to pay for zero carbon
features Repayments from energy
savings If you move, the loan stays
with the home
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Clean Energy Future package
Carbon price will provide some financial incentive
Micro-finance (no interest loans) for low-income households to buy energy efficient appliances
Nothing of note for other households
Need to overcome legacy of botched household insulation, Green Loans and feed-in tariff schemes Great ideas, poorly executed High consumer demand
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The self• Knowledge• Values• Attitudes• Frames• Habits
The group• Friends, family, peers, communities• Media• Social norms• Art and culture• Collective decision-making
The system• Local context• Technology• Financial incentives
and penalties• Rules and institutions
Three influences on what we do
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A community consensus?
“if we are to have a price on carbon and do all the things necessary for our economy and our society to adjust we need a deep and lasting community consensus about that. We don’t have it now.”
Julia Gillard, 24th June 2010
28 September 2011Photos: Mugfaker (top), Erland Howden (bottom)
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Can we move up the spectrum of participation?• Current approach informs and (barely) consults• What would collaborative or empowered decision-making look like?
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A citizens’ assembly on climate change?• Gillard Government botched its first attempt at this idea – could it be resurrected?• World Wide Views on Global Warming, 26 September 2009
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The self• Knowledge• Values• Attitudes• Frames• Habits
The group• Friends, family, peers, communities• Media• Social norms• Art and culture• Collective decision-making
The system• Local context• Technology• Financial incentives
and penalties• Rules and institutions
Three influences on what we do
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Where is the inspiring vision? Futerra, Sell the Sizzle (2009)
“Threats of climate hell haven’t seemed to hold us back from running headlong towards it”
“We must build a visual and compelling vision of climate heaven”
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We should be framing climate change as an opportunity Better cities Healthier lifestyles Green jobs Renewable energy
superpower A resource of the
imagination (Hulme)
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Vision in the Clean Energy Future package
Shifts in the framing From climate change to
carbon pollution to clean energy future
Similar shift towards positive visions in the US
But a slogan is not a vision and the Clean Energy Future Package does little to inspire
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Communities can’t do it alone• A polycentric approach to learn by experimenting• Action across all scales, by all sectors• But, communities can provide the spark
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