Problems and Solutions for Decarbonisation and Energy Transition: a Cross-National Dialogue

Date

Online December 7-9 2021 via zoom.

Summary

This Conference brings together the latest research on energy transitions from across several countries. It involves institutes, researchers and key participants in the process of energy transition, to learn from experience and to reflect on obstacles and possibilities. It is focused on the following five themes:

Socio-technical innovation, institutional change and the transition;
Narratives of transition: technological versus behavioural, centralised versus
decentralised, market mechanisms versus direct intervention;
Models for transition: regulatory, community and business
Putting people at centre of transition: communities, workers, Indigenous Peoples;
Visions for transition - energy justice, energy commons, energy democracy.

The Conference is organised by the Climate Justice Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney, with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam), the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi) (tbc) and Arizona State University (Phoenix) (tbc).

It is funded by the Australian Research Council through the’ Future Fellow’ project, Society and climate change: A social analysis of disruptive technology, and the ‘Discovery’ project Decarbonising Electricity: A Comparison in Socio-Ecological Relations.

Participants

The conference aims to involve a range of academic researchers and non-academic participants who are engaged with energy transitions, across contrasting contexts. The conference aims to pool knowledge and come to a better understanding of the social dynamics of decarbonisation, and its problems and solutions.

The conference will be hosted in Germany (IASS), India (CPR) (tbc), Australia (CJRC) and Arizona (tbc).

Picture: Wind turbine under construction at Port Augusta, South Australia