{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"\u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","provider_url":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja","author_name":"\u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","author_url":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja","title":"The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy? | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jSrCapKZJo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/\">The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/embed\/#?secret=jSrCapKZJo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy?&#8221; &#8212; \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan\" data-secret=\"jSrCapKZJo\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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But this is one submission that got me really excited, it's worth writing a blog about. It's an example of the bold vision and thinking we need to get us on track to 350ppm.Recently the Australian Government called for submissions from the Australian&nbsp;community on how Australia can engage with Asia during the \u2018Asian Century\u2019.&nbsp;One of our 350.org organisers in Australia, Samantha Mella saw this as a chance to put down a bold vision for how Australia could get 350ppm on the table - not just for Australia but for the whole region. Here are some snapshots from her submission (you can download the full pdf of the submission here):This submission suggests that a key axis of engagement between Australia and Asia&nbsp;must be managing climate change. The great transformative opportunity of this&nbsp;century is the way we export energy. Australia is a net exporter of energy to Asia in&nbsp;the form of coal and gas, and now uranium. If we aspire to a peaceful and&nbsp;prosperous endpoint to the Asian century, this must change. Australia must export&nbsp;renewable energy, and Australia\u2019s key resource is massive deserts with some of the highest solar isolation rates in the world (ABARE 2010).-------A decade into the Asian Century, the cost of heatwaves,&nbsp;bushfires, floods, droughts and storms in Asia and Australia is&nbsp;estimated to be $US259 billion (Source: E M-DAT: The&nbsp;OFDA\/CRED International Disaster Database. Se e Appendix).&nbsp;Being a climate-vulnerable nation, Australia\u2019s share of these&nbsp;costs was $US18 billion. Australian heatwaves were not&nbsp;included in the EM-DAT analysis. For example, the 2009&nbsp;heatwave in south east Australia that left 374 Victorians dead&nbsp;and hospitals overflowing was estimated to have cost Victoria&nbsp;$AU100 million (Houston and Rielly 2009, Department of&nbsp;Human Services 2009). It is therefore likely that Australia\u2019s climate-induced costs&nbsp;are somewhat higher.In Asia, some of the countries hit hardest between 2000-2011 included:China $US124 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)India $US21 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)Pakistan $US12 billion (drought, flood, storms, landslides)&nbsp;Thailand $US41.4 billion (drought, flood, storms)&nbsp;Korea Dem $US6.3 billion (floods and storms)Korea Rep $US10.6 billion (floods and storms)(A &nbsp;detailed table is available in the Appendix.)&nbsp;So returning to the initial question, in light of Australia and Asia facing costs for&nbsp;extreme weather events around $US259 billion within the first decade of the Asian&nbsp;Century, is solar really too expensive to consider? If Australia and Asia invested the&nbsp;same amount into clean energy infrastructure, what could be the benefits for the&nbsp;whole region for the rest of the century?---------The submission closes with:&nbsp;It is recognised that Australia and the coal industry are in a difficult position. There&nbsp;is a mass of coal lying underground and the Asian market is paying premium prices.&nbsp;Yet the more coal that is bought and sold, the more vulnerable we become.&nbsp;Asia\u2019s core demand is energy, not coal. Asian nations are well aware of the high risks&nbsp;and cost of climate change, and would like wealthy countries like Australia with&nbsp;carbon-intensive economies to make a greater contribution towards reducing&nbsp;emissions \u2013 downstream emissions as well. In transforming the way we export&nbsp;energy to Asia, the potential to make a huge difference to the endpoint of the Asian&nbsp;Century is within our grasp.&nbsp;The opportunity for \u2018transformation\u2019 must include the coal industry. IBM is an&nbsp;example of a business that has made such a transformation. The calculators and&nbsp;typewriters that were IBM\u2019s core business last century bear little resemblance to&nbsp;the full information systems outsourcing giant that exists today. IBM is still in&nbsp;business, making record profits. Australia must dismantle its multi-billion dollar&nbsp;fossil fuel subsidies and offer attractive incentives for coal companies to truly&nbsp;transition their business models to low or zero carbon.&nbsp;By 2030, Australia can be delivering clean energy to Asia via HVDC undersea cables.&nbsp;Yes, it will be very expensive to set up \u2013 a rough estimate is $A U300 billion.&nbsp;Considering the costs of climate change will probably amount to trillions of dollars&nbsp;for Asia and Australia within decades, it is a sound investment. Yes, it is a grand,&nbsp;bold, ambitious vision \u2013 exactly the kind of vision the International Energy Agency says we need (IEA 2011).&nbsp;Download the full submission here.&nbsp;"}