Superpower : Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 A Personal Reflection on Australia's Climate Change Odyssey; 2 Exorcising the Diabolical Policy Problem; Climate change and economic development; Our shared scientific understanding; The ethics of climate change; Developments in global action; The Australian policy tangle; 3 Risk, Reward and the Economics of Climate Change; Decisions by one country in a many-country world; Comparing costs and benefits; Introducing the fish; What has changed?; Regulation and funding as an alternative to carbon pricing International trade in emissions entitlementsAustralian policy after Abbott; The contemporary fish; Appendix to Chapter 3; 4 The Electricity Transformation; Difficult politics; The energy transition in 2008 and 2011; Spurs to decarbonisation; The trilemma trainwreck: emissions, prices, security; Reliability, transmission and storage; Electricity as the foundation of the energy superpower; 5 The Industrial Transformation; Recent developments; Australia's competitiveness in a zero-carbon world; An advantage lost and gained; Manufacturing aluminium metal competitively Manufacturing clean iron competitivelyOther energy-intensive manufacturing; Biomass as a base for industry; Locations of zero-emissions industries; Fugitive emissions; 6 The Transport Transformation; A follower, not a leader; Transport and the grid; The rise of the electric car; 7 Earthing Carbon; Landscape and emissions; The food challenge; Carbon farming and the international rules; Growing the future; 8 Embracing Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity; A new framework; Australia as the superpower of the post-carbon world economy; Acknowledgements; Notes and Sources; Index; Back Cover