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The Climate & Energy College is an international team of early career
researchers. The College conducts climate and energy systems research in an
interdisciplinary environment, advancing knowledge and informing responses to
the complex challenges of climate change.
We are a world-class research hub located at the University of Melbourne
collaborating with leading Australian and German research institutions. Our
research is centred on Climate Change and Energy Transitions.
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NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
* International Roundtable on Achieving Positive Social and Economic Outcomes
in the Energy Transition
This document is a summary of the discussions held at the International
Roundtable on Achieving Positive Social and Economic Outcomes in the Energy
Transition on 17 February 2022. This Roundtable was co-hosted by The Next
Economy and Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, with
support from the Strategic Partnerships for Implementation of the Paris
Agreement, and brought...
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* LAUNCH OF THE EU-AU BUILDING AND APPLIANCE EFFICIENCY REPORT
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Thursday, 17 March 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Public Seminar
European Union and Australian institutional structures, past policy measures
and present policy approaches related to building and appliance energy and
climate response have much in common, and important differences. Both the
similarities and differences provide fertile ground for increased future
research collaboration.
Both the EU and Australia face challenges in dramatically scaling up action
to cut carbon emissions associated with appliances and buildings, as well as
adapting to more extreme climate conditions and managing equitable
transitions. Both have substantial stocks of existing buildings and equipment
that will maintain high levels of emissions unless operating efficiency is
optimised and/or they are renovated or replaced. Climates and availability of
renewable energy vary widely across both regions.
At this event, Alan Pears and Rosalinda Bustamante launched the ‘Building and
Appliance Energy Efficiency Report: Opportunities for EU-Australian
Collaboration’, which is available here.
Speaker:
ALAN PEARS
Alan Pears AM is a Fellow at the Climate and Energy College and a Senior
Industry Fellow at RMIT, where he taught for many years. He has worked in the
energy field since the late 1970s, mainly on demand side issues and has
played key roles in development of several Australian energy efficiency and
climate abatement programs across all sectors, including appliance and
building efficiency and industry/business energy management. In recent years,
he has worked with the Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity, framing
and applying the ‘value chain’ approach to energy productivity for the
refrigerated cold chain, food processing and application of high temperature
heat pumps. He has evaluated urban carbon strategies with the Asia Pacific
Economic Community, and has worked with several Australian communities on low
carbon strategies. Alan advises business, governments and communities.
ROSALINDA BUSTAMANTE
Rosalinda is in her final year of the Master of Environment at the University
of Melbourne and has a degree in law and business. She has worked in the
areas of sustainability, climate change, environmental law, and finance. She
has led different community engagement projects in the international youth
climate movement since 2014.
* DIGITALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: HOW IS DIGITAL FINANCE AFFECTING THE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ARENA?
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Tuesday, 15 March 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Public Seminar
It has become increasingly apparent that leaders at the local and subnational
level must think outside the box in order to match the results of past
performance and simultaneously adapt to accelerating changes. From the
Covid-19 global pandemic to social justice issues relating to the climate
crisis, decision makers are under increasing pressure to respond quickly and
effectively to challenges whilst proactively mitigating against the
consequences.
This is where digitization and digital innovation enter the scene.
Digitalization and digital innovation are transforming the current landscape
of sustainability and climate action, and have the potential to create even
more change in the coming years. Meaning the integration of digital
technologies into everyday life to change the way all of us interact and
live, digitalization should work hand in hand with sustainability and be
leveraged in multiple sectors.
What does this mean in practice? An increase in data facilitates increased
precision for reporting and monitoring our current situation, and accurately
predicting future trajectories so leaders can make more informed decisions at
the local level. Digital innovation can also encourage behavior change via
micro-rewards enabled through Blockchain technology. In addition, collecting
data from communities through a bottom-up approach enhances the
citizen-science interface and provides valuable information that reflects the
real time functioning of a city.
Against this backdrop, Pourya Salehi presents the impacts of digital
innovation on the domain of finance. We have entered an era of exciting new
funding mechanisms, which is a catalyst for mobilizing other essential
resources needed for climate action. As said by the UN Secretary General,
“digital technologies which are revolutionizing financial markets can be a
game changer in reaching our shared objectives”. Pourya’s presentation
explores citizen-centric financial systems and examines the benefits this has
for both community members and local governments.
Speaker:
POURYA SALEHI
As the Senior Research Officer at ICLEI World Secretariat, Pourya has an
educational background in urban planning and management, land management,
Blockchain technology, and finance, along with a decade worth of experience
in sustainable development gained from working at consultancies in addition
to research institutes. Pourya was the lead of the organization in the
development of ICLEI's Global Research Strategy in 2019; a strategic document
that guides the organization’s research and innovation activities including
project acquisition, while building partnerships with leading research and
innovation partners across the globe. From this, Pourya has been leading the
execution of the Global Research Strategy and coordinating it across ICLEI’s
20+ international offices.
In addition to managing, coordinating, and overseeing several research and
innovation projects over the past years, Pourya is also an accomplished
author on various knowledge products including a number of peer-reviewed
publications on a wide range of topics. This experience has been instrumental
in Pourya becoming one of the founding members of the Global Covenant of
Mayors' Research & Innovation Technical Working Group (GCoM’s R+I TWG), in
addition to other research and innovation related spaces such as the
Scientific Steering Committee for UNCCD’s Global Land Outlook (GLO) 2.0, and
a member of Partners' Network Organizing Committee for the renowned
Innovate4Cities Conference which was co-organized by UN-Habitat and GCoM and
co-sponsored by the IPCC to build on the 2018 Edmonton Cities and Climate
Change Science Conference and the resulting Global Research and Action Agenda
(GRAA). He is also one of the co-authors of the Updated Global Research and
Action Agenda for Cities on Cities and Climate Change Science. More recently,
the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Global Covenant of Mayors appointed
Pourya as the Global Co-Chair of GCoM's Research & Innovation Technical
Working Group which, along with other responsibilities, guides and oversees
the implementation of GCoM's Innovate4Cities initiative.
* NATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY AFTER THE 2022 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ELECTION: WHAT
MIGHT WE EXPECT?
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Tuesday, 1 March 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Public Seminar
Australia has long been a climate policy laggard among developed countries.
The Morrison Coalition Government has done nothing to improve this record, as
highlighted by its performance at the Glasgow COP in 2021. Indeed during the
period from 2014 through to the present – under successive Coalition
governments (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison) – national climate policy has
been marked first by climate policy reversals and then inaction both in terms
of proclaimed ambition and policy. Meanwhile, since its loss in 2019, Labor
has remained quiet on this contentious issue. And yet, paradoxically, during
this period, Australia’s greenhouse emissions have continued to drop.
Australians will go to the polls in May this year. This seminar will
speculate about the possible role of climate policy in the 2022 national
election campaign, and will consider possible climate policy scenarios – in
the context of the ‘performance paradox’ – for the period which follows.
This event has been organised with the financial support of the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument. The opinions expressed are the sole
responsibility of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Union.
Speaker:
PROFESSOR ROBYN ECKERSLEY
Robyn Eckersley is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science
at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social
Sciences in Australia. She has published widely in the fields of
environmental political theory, politics and the state; ecology and
democracy; international relations; and global environmental governance, with
a special focus on the ethics, politics and governance of climate change. Her
recent books include Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American
Power (2012, co-author); Globalization and the Environment (2013)
(co-authored with P. Christoff) and The Oxford Handbook of International
Political Theory (2018) (co-edited with C. Brown.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PETER CHRISTOFF
Peter Christoff is a Senior Research Fellow with the Melbourne Climate
Futures Initiative, and an honorary Associate Professor in the School of
Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the University of Melbourne.
His research and publications focus on Australian and international
environmental and climate politics and policy. In addition he has served on
various climate-related policy bodies, including the Victorian Premier's
Climate Change Reference Group the Victorian Ministerial Reference Council on
Climate Change Adaptation, and was also the Assistant Commissioner for the
Environment in Victoria.
* EU-AUSTRALIA KNOWLEDGE NETWORK: WRAP-UP EVENTS
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 - 5:30pm to Thursday, 24 February 2022 - 7:00pm
Public Seminar
Join us for a series of wrap-up events for the EU-Australia Knowledge
Network.
Wrap-up Day 1: Highlights of the EU-Australia Knowledge Network and a summary
of the ‘Buildings and Energy Efficiency’ project
Tuesday 22 February 2022, 5:30pm-7:00pm AEDT
Following an introduction in the SPIPA program, we will present highlights
from the Network’s seminars and activities.
Alan Pears and Rosalinda Bustamante will then present a summary of their
research on Buildings and Appliances Energy Efficiency in Australia and the
EU, including comparisons of the governance and regulatory frameworks between
Australia and the EU, linkages with just transitions and circular economies,
and areas for potential collaboration between the EU and Australia.
Wrap-up Day 2: The Regional Energy Transition and Launch of the EU-AU Energy
Affordability Report
Wednesday 23 February 2022, 5:30pm-7:00pm AEDT
Our first presentation will be from Dr Amanda Cahill (CEO of The Next
Economy) discussing the similarities and differences between fossil-fuel
reliant communities in Australia and the EU, and lessons learned in
facilitating a just transition for these communities.
After Amanda’s presentation, Johanna Cludius, David Ritter and Viktoria Noka
from Öko-Institut and Dr Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran from the University of
Melbourne will launch their report ‘Energy Affordability: Sharing Lessons
from the EU and Australia’s Low Carbon Transitions’. This will cover both a
comparison of electricity prices between Australia and the EU, and different
models of hardship protection for vulnerable groups between the two
jurisdictions. This report is available here.
Wrap-up Day 3: Health co-benefits from climate action, lessons from the EU
Taxonomy, and next steps for the EU-Australia Knowledge Network
Thursday 24 February 2022, 5:30pm-7:00pm AEDT
This event will include two research presentations. First, Belle Workman will
present research on the health co-benefits that arise from actions to
mitigate climate change; then Angela Bruckner will present lessons that can
be learned from the development and implementation of the EU Taxonomy,
towards the development of an Australian Taxonomy.
Finally, this event will conclude with a discussion of the links between the
EU-Australia Knowledge Network and other members of the Australian SPIPA
network, the lessons of the SPIPA program, and next steps to continue the
collaborative research relationships developed during this program.
This event has been organised with the financial support of the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument. The opinions expressed are the sole
responsibility of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Union.
* USING AN IMPROVED DATABASE OF CITY-LEVEL MITIGATION ACTIONS TO DRIVE IMPROVED
PRACTICE
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Tuesday, 15 February 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Public Seminar
Taking effective action on climate change is more urgent than ever, but
cities across the world are still hamstrung by limitations on their ability
to efficiently look to and learn from other cities. Although tens of
thousands of cities across the globe are each implementing numerous actions
to tackle this critical problem, extremely little information about these
activities is available in easy-to-access formats leading most practitioners
to preferentially seek information from their immediate neighbours rather
than pursue any kind of systematic investigations. Furthermore, due to the
lack of inter-compatibility in how activities are described and measured, it
is extremely challenging to perform effective analysis and other forms of
investigation on what cities are doing. Although there is some effort made to
consolidate city-level activities (examples including the Data Portal for
Cities and the CDP Open Data Portal) these repositories do not currently
provide cities with effective ways to interrogate and understand the data to
inform decision-making. We have observed that this lack of direct connection
to practitioners leads to a lowering of perceived value and to inadequate or
infrequent submission of further data.
This lack of sustained and robust data input from cities is an extremely
critical issue with the research community as well. Poor documentation and
standardization in city activity classification provides serious barriers to
both learning from, and providing guidance, to municipal practitioners.
In response to this Ironbark, in conjunction with Innovate4Cities, developed
a database which has been further expanded into a new tool called CityCAD.
Both tools have been developed using a new approach to documenting city-level
activities, with a specific focus on functionality and engagement for
municipal practitioners and associated staff. This approach has been
specifically developed based on the ways in which cities design their
activities with the intention to connect directly into decision-making
pathways. Through doing this, we have been able to identify numerous ways of
providing ongoing value to practitioners as well as providing many benefits
to researchers and other stakeholders.
This seminar will review the structure and function of CityCAD focusing on
how it addresses current barriers to knowledge transfer. We will also explore
some of the ancillary benefits it provides, and design principles for
interfacing to city practitioners to facilitate improved practice in
stakeholders with a range of technical and analytical capabilities.
This event has been organised with the financial support of the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument. The opinions expressed are the sole
responsibility of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Union.
Speaker:
MATTHEW SULLIVAN-KILGOUR
Matt is co-lead of the Innovations Unit - Climate Program for Ironbark
Sustainability.
Matt has been at the forefront of innovation for carbon emissions mitigation
at the local government level for over ten years. As Head of Research for the
Moreland Energy Foundation, and among other innovative solutions he developed
the fundamentals of their Zero Carbon Evolution program, a pioneering
initiative that sought to dramatically ramp up community-scale programs.
Since his time at Ironbark Sustainability he developed the data platform that
created Snapshot Community Emissions Profile (www.snapshotclimate.com.au),
which has become the primary tool for municipalities across Australia for
preparing their emissions inventories and launching their programs into
climate change mitigation. He developed the Science-Derived Target method
that connects Australian municipalities to the National Determined
Contribution (NDC), a method now recognized by the international organisation
the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. He also has pioneered
methods for determining the impacts of initiatives by local government in
reducing emissions in their municipalities, centred on his Evidence-Based
Action Planning framework. Most recently, he has developed the CityCAD
database and has been working with a range of stakeholders to systematically
empower improved practice.
Matt regularly presents to national audiences of city practitioners and other
experts on best practice and innovative new methods. He has also sat on
numerous working groups and expert panels assessing innovation and standards
in the industry.
* EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBAL RESEARCH ACTION AGENDA FOR CITIES (GRAA)
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Thursday, 17 February 2022 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Public Seminar
The 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science conference initiated a process of
engagement between urban policymakers, practitioners, researchers and other
societal actors, to map and evaluate the state of research and progress on
the intersection of cities and climate change, with an emphasis on research
needs for increased action. The primary output of this conference was the
Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science
(GRAA)(World Climate Research Programme, 2019), which identified four cross
cutting areas and six topical areas where research and knowledge were needed.
Expanding the perspective from that seen at the conference to better include
the city voice, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM)
launched the Innovate4Cities (I4C) initiative, and associated City Research
Agenda, to support action by cities as called for within the 2018 Cities and
Climate Change Science conference’s GRAA.
The first Innovate4Cities conference (Innovate4Cities 2021) was held
virtually in October 2021 by GCoM and UN-Habitat, and co-sponsored by the
IPCC, once again bringing together a community from academia, the private
sector, NGOs, local governments, national governments, city networks, youth,
international organisations and other stakeholders engaged in addressing
climate change in cities. This virtual conference allowed for presentations
from around the world to take place across time zones over five days, which
facilitated participation from a diversity of presenters and discussants from
over 150 countries. In this presentation, Brenna and Cathy will discuss some
of the initial insights on the GRAA, resulting from this recent I4C
gathering.
Further reading:
* Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science:
https://www.wcrp-climate.org/WCRP-publications/2019/GRAA-Cities-and-Climate-Change-Science-Full.pdf
* GCOM: https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/
* Innovate4Cities initiative:
https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/research-innovation/
* 2018 City Research Agenda:
https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/GCoM_Innovate4Cities-OPS_Booklet_8.5x11.pdf
* Announcement for Summary for Urban Policy Makers Initiatives:
https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/press/new-summary-for-urban-policymakers-initiative-announced/
* Innovate4Cities Conference – Plenaries summary:
https://unhabitat.org/relive-the-innovate4cities-climate-change-conference-plenaries-here
* The Future of our Cities is Indigenous – Maddison Miller, Pursuit:
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-future-of-our-cities-is-indigenous
* I4C Conference Student Writing Team – Report:
https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cities/projects/innovate4cities/studentwritingteam
This event has been organised with the financial support of the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument. The opinions expressed are the sole
responsibility of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Union.
Speaker:
DR BRENNA WALSH
Dr Brenna Walsh is a consultant on climate change and cities, and has been
co-editor of the Innovate4Cities update to the Global Research and Action
Agenda for the Innovate4Cities conference, supported by UN-Habitat. Brenna is
supporting the Global Covenant of Mayors in updating the City Research
Agenda. Brenna is also a project manager at the Surface Particulate Matter
Network, working at the intersection of urban climate change and health.
Previously, as a science officer at Future Earth International she
coordinated work of the Scientific Steering Committee for the 2018 Cities and
Climate Change Science conference, held in Edmonton, Canada after which she
coordinated writing of the Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and
Climate Change Science.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenna-walsh-716ab028/
DR CATHY OKE
Dr Cathy Oke is currently Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed
Cities within the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning and Associate
Director (Enterprise and Impact) in the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the
University of Melbourne. In this role, she is also Special Advisor
Innovate4Cities at Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM).
Cathy was previously the Knowledge Broker at the Clean Air and Urban
Landscapes (CAUL) research hub, of the National Environmental Science
Program, based at the University of Melbourne; and a Councillor at the City
of Melbourne 2008 – 2020 (principally in the Environment Portfolio). Cathy
has been a member of the ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability –
World Secretariat’s Global Executive Committee since 2009, a leadership body
which guides the network in advancing its global vision. She has been a
critical member of the team advocating on behalf of cities at seven UN
Conference of the Parties – UNFCCC (Copenhagen, Cancun, Paris, Bonn. Madrid
and Glasgow) and Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) (Cancun and Sharm
el Sheik).
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/720206-cathy-oke
* ACHIEVING AN EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION: SOCIAL DATA, BEST
PRACTICES FOR INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATION, AND SUPPORTING YOUTH-LED
ACTION
Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Thursday, 10 February 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Public Seminar
Diverse knowledge and perspectives play key roles in driving research and
innovation on climate change action. Despite equitable participation and the
value of city-based partnerships as key dimensions of local climate action,
youth are an important but often excluded cohort in local climate action. As
part of a partnership between Student Energy, Global Covenant of Mayors for
Climate and Energy (GCoM), and the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the
University of Melbourne, a team of youth researchers representing eight
global regions have been assembled as part of the GCoM Youth Policy
Innovation Team to advance these imperatives for city and local climate
action.
Drawing from the world’s first social dataset of youth perspectives gathered
from Student Energy’s Global Youth Energy Outlook (GYEO), members of the
policy innovation team have analysed and distilled these datasets into
concrete recommendations for an inclusive, climate safe and energy
transition. This seminar will provide insight into the key findings and
elaborate on the identified pathways and perspectives for action: Youth
Vision for the Future Energy System, Governance and Policy Innovation,
Technological and Financial Innovation and Social Innovation.
Further resources:
* Global Covenant Of Mayors: https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/
* Melbourne Centre for Cities: https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cities
* Global Youth Energy Outlook (including a recording of the Launch event at
COP26): https://studentenergy.org/program/outlook/
* International Energy Agency, Recommendations of the Global Commission on
People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions:
https://www.iea.org/reports/recommendations-of-the-global-commission-on-people-centred-clean-energy-transitions
* The Student Energy 'Energy Topics Index':
https://studentenergy.org/energy-education/topics/
* Jamaica Climate Change Youth Council: https://ourfootprintja.org/
* An article by GoodGoodGood on the role of youth councils in tackling
climate change:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/youth-council-climate-change
This event has been organised with the financial support of the European
Union’s Partnership Instrument. The opinions expressed are the sole
responsibility of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Union.
Speaker:
PAOLA FLORES CARVAJAL
Paola studies Industrial Engineering at Universidad San Francisco Xavier
(USFX) and is passionate about renewable energy, science, start-ups, and
community projects. In 2015, Paola received a scholarship from the Embassy of
the United States of America to participate in a Science and Innovation
Summer Camp in La Jolla, California where Paola gained life-changing
experience about renewable energy and its importance in our future. Since
then, Paola has worked on many social projects in Bolivia and founded
Magnífica Warmi with a group of friends, which is a project that works with
Indigenous women on issues related to the environment and climate change.
In 2020, she was selected as the Latin America Regional Coordinator for the
Global Youth Energy Outlook of Student Energy (the first report of its kind
to share what young people from all the world want for their energy future in
their countries and regions), in 2021 was selected to represent Bolivia in
the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition at Milan for Pre-COP where 400 young
people from all over the world will meet to propose the construction of a
more sustainable future and now she is part of the Global Support Team of the
SDG7 Youth Constituency.
ALISON FONG
Alison Fong is a budding young planner passionate about connecting peoples,
conversations and the built environment through an inclusive and sustainable
creative focus. As a recent Master of Urban Planning Graduate from the
University of Melbourne, Alison has continuously practiced these values
whilst fostering diverse experience across government, private sector,
academic and local community the lin planning and placemaking initiatives.
Most recently, Alison was chosen to participate as part of the Global
Covenant of Mayors’ Youth Policy Innovation Team, where she worked within a
collaborative global youth team to extract youth policy insights on
city-level climate action from Student Energy’s Global Youth Energy Outlook.
Alison has also been a keen advocate in shaping accessible places for all,
where she was awarded 2nd place at the Climathon Melbourne Hackathon in 2017
with her team for an outstanding project to bring greater heat wave knowledge
and environmental awareness to international students and was also awarded
the annual SGS Economics Planning Graham Larcombe Award in 2020 for her
demonstrated interest in equity and social disadvantage issues in urban
development during her graduate studies.
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trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.
* LIVEMAGICC CLIMATE MODEL
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* NDC & INDC FACTSHEETS
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