Powering the Pacific: Impacts of a renewable transition 2021

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Climate change is the greatest threat to Pacific Small Island Developing States, which face devastating impacts from rising sea levels and an increase in severe weather events.

The region is also powered predominantly by imported fossil fuels and suffers from low electrification rates in many areas, making the transition to renewable energy a policy priority to reduce emissions and promote energy security and resilience.

A panel of activists and experts will highlight the impacts of fossil fuels on Pacific communities, what opportunities for renewable transition exist as well as the current lack of global environmental regulation in this space. This event seeks to examine how the Pacific region, as a moral and diplomatic leader in addressing climate change, is decarbonising and what role Australia can, and should play, in that process.

Speakers

• Professor Howard Bamsey, Australian National University

• Genevieve Jiva, Pacific Climate Warrior

• Professor Susan Park, University of Sydney