The Veil of Kyoto and the politics of greenhouse gas mitigation in Australia

Howarth, Nicholas; Foxall, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.03.001

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“…The award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and to Al Gore establishes the importance of climate change issue. Current Australian Government has a long term target of a 60% reduction in emission relative to 1990 by 2050 [1]. All of these concerns have boosted the importance of research for alternatives to fossil derived products.…”

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Biofuels Production through Biomass Pyrolysis —A Technological Review

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There has been an enormous amount of research in recent years in the area of thermo-chemical conversion of biomass into bio-fuels (bio-oil, bio-char and bio-gas) through pyrolysis technology due to its several socio-economic advantages as well as the fact it is an efficient conversion method compared to other thermo-chemical conversion technologies. However, this technology is not yet fully developed with respect to its commercial applications. In this study, more than two hundred publications are reviewed, discussed and summarized, with the emphasis being placed on the current status of pyrolysis technology and its potential for commercial applications for bio-fuel production. Aspects of pyrolysis technology such as pyrolysis principles, biomass sources and characteristics, types of pyrolysis, pyrolysis reactor design, pyrolysis products and their characteristics and economics of bio-fuel production are presented. It is found from this study that conversion of biomass to bio-fuel has to overcome challenges such as understanding the trade-off between the size of the pyrolysis plant and feedstock, improvement of the reliability of pyrolysis reactors and processes to become viable for commercial applications. Further study is required to achieve a better understanding of the economics of biomass pyrolysis for bio-fuel production, as well as resolving issues related to the capabilities of this technology in practical application. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2012, 5 4953

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“…The state and federal approach to retrofitting Australian cities can be succinctly summarised as 'governing at a distance'. We can see in retrofit, in other words, Australia's highly contested climate politics being played out (Howarth & Foxall, 2010;Jones, 2012). Equally intriguing though, is the governing occurring at the local scale, to which we now turn.…”

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Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia

Dowling¹,

McGuirk²,

Bulkeley³

2014

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Transforming cities to a lower carbon future is one of the key challenges of contemporary urban governance. Retrofitting the city -or modifying existing urban infrastructures, buildings and daily life to suit different energy sources and different expectations of energy consumption -is essential to this transformation. In urban studies, little focus has yet been applied to the shape and character of urban governance frameworks and mechanisms required to successfully retrofit cities. In this paper we address this lacuna by exploring the logics, practices and dynamics of retrofitting governance in the Australian city. Using a governmentality perspective, the paper identifies the involvements of different scales of government in retrofitting policies and mechanisms and connections between them. Based on a unique survey of carbon reduction initiatives involving government, business and community actors across Australia's capital cities, we outline the types of retrofitting solutions being proposed and enacted. Using a focus on local initiatives from Sydney, Australia's largest city, the paper documents four key techniques through which retrofitting is being governed -selfgoverning, holistic, facilitative and educative. The findings suggest that governance gaps remain in attending to the daily life of technologies and the materiality of daily life. AbstractTransforming cities to a lower carbon future is one of the key challenges of contemporary urban governance. Retrofitting the city -or modifying existing urban infrastructures, buildings and daily life to suit different energy sources and different expectations of energy consumption -is essential to this transformation. In urban studies, little focus has yet been applied to the shape and character of urban governance frameworks and mechanisms required to successfully retrofit cities. In this paper we address this lacuna by exploring the logics, practices and dynamics of retrofitting governance in the Australian city. Using a governmentality perspective, the paper identifies the involvements of different scales of government in retrofitting policies and mechanisms and connections between them. Based on a unique survey of carbon reduction initiatives involving government, business and community actors across Australia's capital cities, we outline the types of retrofitting solutions being proposed and enacted. Using a focus on local initiatives from Sydney, Australia's largest city, the paper documents four key techniques through which retrofitting is being governed -self-governing, holistic, facilitative and educative. The findings suggest that governance gaps remain in attending to the daily life of technologies and the materiality of daily life.2

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“…Much of this work has engaged with the situated policies and practices of carbon governance in specific settings, revealing both the possibilities of de‐carbonisation as well as the resistances and political problematics embroiling its realisation (e.g. Howarth and Foxall ; Maassen ; North and Longhurst ).…”

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Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance

Walker

Karvonen

Guy

2015

Trans Inst British Geog

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We consider in this paper the relations between built form and everyday practices of home-living. These we see as co-constituting a combined domestic carbon space in which sociomaterial interdependencies are constantly at work. Carbon emissions are necessarily caught up in these interdependencies and not separable from them. We use the case of the mainstreaming of zero carbon (zero-C) housing in the UK to explore whether conceiving of domestic carbon in properly sociomaterial terms reveals possibilities for, or resistances to, carbon governance objectives. We find strong resistances to the notion that zero-C might mean simultaneously creating 'new normals' of built form and ways of living, with market values and governance delineations resisting any sharing of responsibility for achieving zero-C between those building and those living in future homes. The slippery, contested and diminished calculation of zero-C has also been closely coupled to these ends. This case shows that resistances to carbon control can emerge in interdependent sociomaterial forms and are strengthened through that interdependency, such that carbon lock-in works through entwined forms of inertia. However, we argue that in other instances and spaces of carbon governance we might find alternative sociomaterial articulations that serve to configure the politics of change in more positive ways.

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The Veil of Kyoto and the politics of greenhouse gas mitigation in Australia

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Biofuels Production through Biomass Pyrolysis —A Technological Review

Biofuels Production through Biomass Pyrolysis —A Technological Review

Retrofitting cities: Local governance in Sydney, Australia

Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance

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