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A list of podcasts and radio, conferences and workshops, and media produced by our research team.
read moreForest Wind and Australia’s renewables revolution: how big clean energy projects risk leaving local communities behind
This piece was originally written for The Conversation, 24th August 2020
read morePeople need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs
This piece was originally written for The Conversation, 19th June 2020.
read moreCarbon Pricing or a Green New Deal?
Enter the Green New Deal, which opens up much needed political space for debate over the climate questions that market-based policy can’t answer.
read moreCarbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
My new book, Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism, published by Cambridge University Press, offers a framework to evaluate competing climate policy approaches. The premise is that debates over the direction of climate policy must consider how the policy operates within, and potentially reshapes, ‘climate-changing capitalism’.
read moreSocio-ecological relations of the energy transition in Australia, Germany, and India – Report on an international workshop at IIT Kanpur
The workshop laid open the entanglements of the socio-political and socio-economic relations, pointing out Australia’s, Germany’s and India’s potentials and problems.
read moreTowards an end to the coal curse?
The political debate on climate change is not going to go away. Indeed, it is becoming much sharper.
read moreThe German State of Decarbonisation
Decarbonisation has started, but is not at all yet where it should be. This current state of things continues to be challenged.
read moreIntroduction
It is still relatively early days in the research process for the Decarbonisation project – we’ve chosen the regions of interest, we’re harmonising methodological approaches, we’ve done some scoping visits to get a broad understanding of the issues and terrain.
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