Institute of Advanced Studies

After the widely perceived failure of the Copenhagen climate change conference, the absence of any post-2012 international climate change agreement and an Australian emissions trading scheme now deferred until at least 2013, what’s next for climate change policy in WA, Australia and the world?

In a federal election year what political strategies will need to be adopted to make greater progress on tackling climate change?

This seminar – held at The University of Western Australia in association with the Institute of Advanced Studies – brings together participants from government, business, academia and the non-profit sector to examine these questions.

Issues to be discussed at the seminar include:

• Commonwealth climate change policy after the CPRS
• What role now for the Australian states, WA in particular?
• Merits of instruments other than an emissions trading scheme – a carbon tax, for example, or direct regulation?
• Business perspectives on climate change policy in 2010 and beyond
• Renewable energy and energy policy
• Is it time to seriously consider nuclear power in Australia?
• What are the prospects for COP 17 in December 2010 in Cancun, Mexico?

Seminar Details

When: Tuesday, 13 July, 2010; 1-4pm

Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, UWA

Cost: Free, but registration is essential to attend.

Registrations have now closed thank you for your interest.

Convenors: 

• David Hodgkinson, Special Counsel at Clayton Utz, Executive Director of EcoCarbon, Inc and Associate Professor in the Law School, UWA.
• Andrew Thackrah,  a postgraduate candidate in Humanities at UWA and a co-editor of The New Critic, the online journal of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Speakers

• Winthrop Professor Alex Coram, Political Science and International Relations, UWA
• Professor Richard Harper, Alcoa Chair in Sustainable Water Resource Management, Murdoch University
• David Hodgkinson, Executive Director, EcoCarbon, Inc.
• Winthrop Professor Carmen Lawrence, Director, Centre for the Study of Social Change, UWA
• Associate Professor Sharon Mascher, Centre for Mining, Energy and Natural Resources Law, UWA
• Tim McAuliffe, General Manager Climate Strategy, Alcoa
• The Hon Dr Sally Talbot, MLC, Shadow Minister for Climate Change