Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
5 - Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
Summary
Renewable energy is regarded as one of the primary technology solutions to combat climate change, caused undoubtedly by continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. Yet the development and commercialisation of renewable energy technologies have faced a number of significant barriers in recent times. These may be regarded as: regulatory and policy risk; uncertainty about whether governments should support renewable energy technologies as a complementary measure where they have imposed a carbon price mechanism; concerns about energy security and the ability of renewable energy to provide baseload power and barriers to entry on conventional electricity grids; and ongoing subsidies, both direct and indirect, to the fossil fuel industry.
I The Current Status of International Climate Change Negotiations
The most recent international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCCC’), the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and a new agreement post 2020, concluded in Warsaw in December 2013. The negotiations reinforced a number of key decisions reached at Doha in 2012, which were in themselves a last-ditch attempt to finalise arrangements for the post-2012 world, with the first commitment period (2008-12) under the Kyoto Protocol ending in December 2012. All recent negotiations have taken place amidst warnings about the urgent need to close the gap between current commitments, of both developed and developing countries, to reduce greenhouse gases (‘GHG's) and the parties’ stated goal of keeping the rise in average global temperatures, compared with pre-industrial times, at below 2°C or even 1.5°C.
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- Information
- Law as ChangeEngaging with the Life and Scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook, pp. 83 - 110Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2014