Climate Technologies and Unintended Consequences 2

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Climate technologies’ can be defined as those technologies which are designed to help prevent or deal with climate change. This includes technologies such as renewables, biofuels, geoengineering, carbon trading, carbon capture and so on. The purpose of this panel is to explore the likely unintended consequences of these technologies for society, ecologies, other technological systems and so on, and the unintended effects of social processes on these technologies. What might we have to look out for? How do we factor in unexpected consequences? How do we limit such factors? Approaches from any theoretical and disciplinary perspective are welcome.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Climate Technologies and Unintended Consequences

Chair

• Jonathan Paul Marshall, UTS

Individual Presentations

• Assessing the Contestation in Biofuel Production Approaches in India - Rahul Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati; Sambit Mallick, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

• Dreaming of a European Saharan Sun : A political ecology of big solar in Africa - Paul Munro, University of New South Wales

• Government and Renewable Energy Industry Leadership in Energy Transition – A Comparative Study between Australia and Taiwan - Yu-Chieh Lin, School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

• Unintended Consequences of Climate Technologies - Jonathan Paul Marshall, UTS

Session Organizer

• Jonathan Paul Marshall, UTS