ONE-DAY CONFERENCE

’GLOBAL WARMING:
ENERGY SECURITY OR ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY?’

When: A day conference - Friday 2 March 2007, 9.30-5.30
Access: Entry by donation. Preregistration required.
Where: University of Sydney, School of Information Technology,
Cleveland St [next to the Seymour Centre]. Disabled access.

Global warming focuses our attention on energy supply. Can existing non-renewable energy sources be cleaned-up? Should we shift to renewables and how? Should we start with social and environmental justice? Should we be questioning needs and looking at a reduction in energy-use, a shift from growth-dependence to eco-sufficiency? Should
we be talking about energy security or energy sovereignty? This day-conference brings together speakers from non-government, corporate, party-political and academic contexts. It addresses economic challenges, international contexts, policy possibilities and community mobilisation.

9.30 Registration
9.45 Welcome Dr Stuart Rosewarne, Capitalism Nature Socialism, editor

10.00 Political Economy Perspectives
Chair: Julie-Anne Richards, Climate Action Network
Speakers:
Amanda McCluskey, Portfolio Partners, "Emissions Trading and Energy Security"
Tony Maher, CFMEU, "Democratic Energy Options"
Dr Peter Christoff, tbc, “APEC and the Energy Question”
Prof Frank Fisher, Swinburne University, "Thinking Rationally: Acting Green"

11.30 Morning Tea

11.45 Geopolitical Perspectives
Chair: Dr James Goodman, Capitalism Nature Socialism, associate
Speakers:
Elaine Pryor, CitiGroup, "Globalisation: Energy Security and Financial Risks"
Prof Gord Laxer, University of Alberta, "Canada's Tar Sands: America’s new fuel tank?"
Margie Lynch, Arrernte Nation, “The Nuclear Industry and Indigenous Peoples”
Noim Uddin, Macquarie University, "Energy and the Global South"

1.15 Lunch

2.00 Policy Perspectives
Chair: Dr Stuart Rosewarne, Capitalism Nature Socialism, editor
Speakers:
Dr Iain MacGill, University of NSW, "The Politics of Renewables"
Speaker tbc, Australian Labor Party, "Labors' Energy Policy"
Kerry Nettle, Australian Greens, "The Greens' Energy Policy"
Geoff Evans, Mineral Policy Institute, “Making Just Transitions”

3.30 Afternoon Tea

3.45 Community Perspectives
Chair: Dr Ariel Salleh, Capitalism Nature Socialism, editor
Speakers:
Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth, "The Abuja Declaration on Energy Sovereignty"
Cate Faehrman, Nature Conservation Council "Mobilising the Community”
Steve Phillips, Rising Tide Newcastle, "At the coalface of climate disaster - community action in the world's biggest coal port"
Dr Nina Lansbury, Macquarie University, "NGOs and Climate Change"

5.15 Energy Security or Energy Sovereignty? Summing Up
Dr Paul Brown, University of New South Wales

Preregistration
Entry to the conference is by donation but numbers are strictly
limited. If you want to attend the conference you must preregister with James Goodman at the University of Technology Sydney - 02-95142714 / james.goodman@uts.edu.au

Convenors
The conference is convened by three Sydney editors of Capitalism Nature Socialism - an international journal dedicated to exploring the links between capitalism and environmental crisis, and dedicated to achieving democratic and sustainable futures. Stuart Rosewarne is in the Department of Economics at the University of Sydney; Ariel Salleh is a writer, activist, and consultant on women and ecological politics; James Goodman is in the Social Inquiry Program at the University of Technology Sydney.

Sponsors
The conference is supported by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney and by the Research Initiative on International Activism at the University of Technology Sydney.