{"id":29129,"date":"2012-03-19T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/2012\/03\/19\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:29:57","slug":"endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/12114\/the_end_point_picture_0.png\" height=\"323\" width=\"250\" \/>\n<p>Making a submission to the Australian Government might not seem like something worthy of a blog post &#8211; &nbsp;submissions are often full of technical details and&nbsp;arguements. But this is one submission that got me really excited, it&#8217;s worth writing a blog about. It&#8217;s an example of the bold vision and thinking we need to get us on track to 350ppm.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Australia, Samantha Mella <\/strong>saw this as a chance to put down a bold vision for how Australia could get 350ppm on the table &#8211; not just for Australia but for the whole region. Here are some snapshots from her submission (you can download the full pdf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3.350.org\/resources\/The+Endpoint_final_4March.pdf\">submission here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><em>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;<\/em><em>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).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<div><em>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, Depart<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>ment of&nbsp;Human Services 2009). It is therefore likely that Australia\u2019s climate-induced costs&nbsp;are somewhat higher.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>In Asia, some of the countries hit hardest between 2000-2011 included:<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>China $US124 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>India $US21 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pakistan $US12 billion (drought, flood, storms, landslides)&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Thailand $US41.4 billion (drought, flood, storms)&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Korea Dem $US6.3 billion (floods and storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Korea Rep $US10.6 billion (floods and storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em>(A &nbsp;detailed table is available in the Appendix.)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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?<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The submission closes with:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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).<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Download the full <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3.350.org\/resources\/The+Endpoint_final_4March.pdf\">submission here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/12114\/the_end_point_picture_0.png\" height=\"323\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Making a submission to the Australian Government might not seem like something worthy of a blog post &#8211; &nbsp;submissions are often full of technical details and&nbsp;arguements. But this is one submission that got me really excited, it&#8217;s worth writing a blog about. It&#8217;s an example of the bold vision and thinking we need to get us on track to 350ppm.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Australia, Samantha Mella <\/strong>saw this as a chance to put down a bold vision for how Australia could get 350ppm on the table &#8211; not just for Australia but for the whole region. Here are some snapshots from her submission (you can download the full pdf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3.350.org\/resources\/The+Endpoint_final_4March.pdf\">submission here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><em>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;<\/em><em>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).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<div><em>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, Depart<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>ment of&nbsp;Human Services 2009). It is therefore likely that Australia\u2019s climate-induced costs&nbsp;are somewhat higher.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>In Asia, some of the countries hit hardest between 2000-2011 included:<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>China $US124 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>India $US21 billion (floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pakistan $US12 billion (drought, flood, storms, landslides)&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Thailand $US41.4 billion (drought, flood, storms)&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Korea Dem $US6.3 billion (floods and storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Korea Rep $US10.6 billion (floods and storms)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em>(A &nbsp;detailed table is available in the Appendix.)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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?<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The submission closes with:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>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).<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Download the full <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3.350.org\/resources\/The+Endpoint_final_4March.pdf\">submission here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy? | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ja_JP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy? | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Making a submission to the Australian Government might not seem like something worthy of a blog post - &nbsp;submissions are often full of technical details and&nbsp;arguements. But this is one submission that got me really excited, it&#039;s worth writing a blog about. It&#039;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. 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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;","og_url":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/","og_site_name":"\u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/350japan","article_published_time":"2012-03-19T00:29:57+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@350_Japan","twitter_site":"@350_Japan","twitter_misc":{"\u63a8\u5b9a\u8aad\u307f\u53d6\u308a\u6642\u9593":"4\u5206"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy?","datePublished":"2012-03-19T00:29:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/"},"wordCount":796,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Uncategorized"],"inLanguage":"ja","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/","url":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/endpoint-australia-exporting-renewable-energy\/","name":"The Endpoint: Australia exporting renewable energy? 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