Assessing Australia's sustainable energy technology options: Key issues, uncertainties, priorities and potential choices

Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 85-100

  MacGill, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate and energy policy; Climate change; Scenario studies; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049106336     PISSN: 13852140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. See, for example, IEA World Energy Outlook (International Energy Agency, Paris: 2007) 74.
2. Ibid, Chapter 4.
3. This question is discussed in the Working Group III report of the IPCC: Fourth Assessment Report (International Panel on Climate Change, Geneva: 2007), although the IPCC does not specifically advise on a particular global temperature target.
4. J. Hansen Climate Tipping Points: The Threat to the Planet, presentation at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill, available at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ (accessed 20 February 2008).
5. See IPCC, note 3 at 23.
6. See, for example, N. Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (UK Government, London: 2006).
7. I.F. MacGill and H.R. Outhred "Australian Climate Change Policy and its Implications for AP6 Countries" (2007) April Proceedings of the China Energy Law International Symposium, Beijing China.
8. See Stern, note 6 at xii.
9. For one of the most recent discussions of this point see R. Garnaut Climate Change Review Interim Report (Garnaut Climate Change Review, Canberra: 2008).
10. Hansen, note 4.
11. These options are classified in many ways. Here we follow the approach taken by Stern, note 6.
12. Australian Government Tracking to the Kyoto Target (Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra: 2008).
13. IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) What is Technology.? at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/TNT/WEB/Page10120/ page10120.html?sb=5 (20 February 2008).
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15. PMSEIC Beyond Kyoto - Innovation and Adaptation, Report to the PMSEIC Ninth Meeting (Australian Government, Canberra: 2002).
16. UMPNER Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy - Opportunities for Australia? (Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review Commonwealth Government Canberra: 2006).
17. National Framework for Energy Efficiency at www.nfee.gov.au (20 February 2008).
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19. K. Morris An Assessrnent of Australian Energy Scenarios (UNSW School of Electrical Engineering Fourth Year Thesis, Sydney: 2007) 82.
20. WWF Climate Solutions - WWF's Vision for 2050 (World Wildlife Fund Gland: 2007).
21. See, for example, I.F. MacGill, H.R. Outhred and K. Nolles "Some design lessons from market-based greenhouse regulation in the restructured Australian electricity industry" (2006) 34(1) Energy Policy 11-25
22. and R. Betz and M. Sato "Emissions trading: Lessons Learnt from the 1st Phase of EU ETS and Prospects for the 2nd Phase" (2006) 6 Climate Policy 351-359.