In 2014, the Australian federal government repealed a national compliance emissions trading scheme (ETS). This was a world first decision to get rid of flagship climate legislation with no replacement at the time. The ETS ran for only two years (2012-14). It has since been replaced by the [...]
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My thesis, An ‘Old’ Institutional Perspective on Carbon Lock-In: The Case Of The Australian Electricity Sector, focused on the need for a transition to low- or zero-emissions energy systems as a key mitigation strategy in addressing anthropogenic climate change.
It focused primarily [...]
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Near-consensus about our critically ill climate and the culpability of fossil-fuels is no longer enough to compel rapid energy transition – last year, Australia’s carbon emissions rose once again. Clearly, something is amiss in how we socially organise. Relying on technological breakthrough [...]
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Wallace-Wells’ confronting and daunting climate piece ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ begins by saying “it is much worse than you think”. Following this evocative jolt Wallace-Wells threads a thorough run down of the catastrophic risks posed by climate change. The piece has attracted much [...]
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I, along with my co-authors Siddhartha Dabhi and Steffen Böhm, were thrilled to be awarded the 2016 Richard Higgott prize for our article “‘Fixing’ the climate crisis: Capital, states and carbon offsetting in India”, published in Environment and Planning A. We would like to extend a big [...]
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The debate about our ecological predicament is heating up and, as it turns out, the Marxian critique of political economy is at the center of that debate.
Much of the discussion right now concerns the Anthropocene, the idea that the current geological age—overlapping with or, [...]
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Tune in to ‘Beyond the Coal Rush’ radio series, Radio National Science Show from Saturday 27 August
Based on the results of a research project linked to the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) by [...]
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Felicity Wade is the National Co-convenor of the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) and has worked for NSW Leader of the Opposition Luke Foley and The Wilderness Society.
Here, Felicity talks about her journey through the Department of Political Economy within the School of [...]
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