Climate Technologies and Unintended Consequences 1

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

• Sustainable Biofuel Production through Emerging Applications of Bioremediation: A Perspective with Responsible Innovation - Jyoti ., Centre for Studies in Science policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

• Markets in the politics of renewable technologies - Daniel Breslau, Virginia Tech

• Soil, climate and the promises of underground carbon - Celine Granjou, University Grenoble Alps

Session Organizer

• Jonathan Paul Marshall, UTS