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Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
9-9-2019 12:30 PM
Description
The Australian National University’s Energy Change Institute’s Grand Challenge – Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific – recognizes that Australia is a renewable-energy resource-rich nation, whose immediate neighbors in the Asia-Pacific will account for two-thirds of the world’s energy demand growth in the coming decades. Decarbonizing that additional energy use and cutting existing emissions from the region by transitioning to renewable energy sources are essential if the world is to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
Co-located wind and solar resources, in close proximity to export possibilities in Asia represent a significant comparative advantage for the production of renewable energy on native title lands in northern Australia. Dr Lily O’Neill and Brad Riley are currently engaged in researching the potential for First Nations engagement with, and benefit from, renewable energy production across scales in northern Australia. They will present on their preliminary findings, as they investigate priority knowledge areas and scope questions of significance to Indigenous people in relation to renewable energy on the Indigenous estate.
Recommended Citation
Riley, Brad and O'Neill, Lily, "Renewable Energy Development on the Indigenous Estate" (2019). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 8.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2019/schedule/8
Renewable Energy Development on the Indigenous Estate
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
The Australian National University’s Energy Change Institute’s Grand Challenge – Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific – recognizes that Australia is a renewable-energy resource-rich nation, whose immediate neighbors in the Asia-Pacific will account for two-thirds of the world’s energy demand growth in the coming decades. Decarbonizing that additional energy use and cutting existing emissions from the region by transitioning to renewable energy sources are essential if the world is to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
Co-located wind and solar resources, in close proximity to export possibilities in Asia represent a significant comparative advantage for the production of renewable energy on native title lands in northern Australia. Dr Lily O’Neill and Brad Riley are currently engaged in researching the potential for First Nations engagement with, and benefit from, renewable energy production across scales in northern Australia. They will present on their preliminary findings, as they investigate priority knowledge areas and scope questions of significance to Indigenous people in relation to renewable energy on the Indigenous estate.
