Carbon Neutral Communities Forum

The forum will present the findings of the three-year ARC project “Carbon Neutral Communities: Making the Transition”, which examined approaches to advancing carbon neutrality at the community and local government levels.

This included working with local governments to map municipal renewable energy potential, and conducting action research with household sustainability program providers and participants to explore opportunities for achieving broad change in social practices.

CNC forum program (PDF 1.8 MB 2P)

Prof Ralph Horne's Introduction presentation (PDF 350 KB 17P)

Assoc Prof Jon Kellett's presentation 'Measuring Carbon Reduction Potential at the Local Level' (PDF 689 KB 8P)

Bruce Thompson's presentation 'Decentralised Energy – Where and How? Better understanding potential applications and effective delivery models' (PDF 1.3 MB 16P)

Maggie Hine's presentation 'Energy futures – local opportunities' (PDF 732 KB 16P)

Yolande Strengers' presentation 'The co-management of everyday practices' (PDF 714 KB 19P)

Dr Annette Kroen's presentation 'Carbon Neutral Communities: a Social Practices Approach' (PDF 110 KB 11P)

Cathryn Hamilton's presentation 'Capacity of local government action to reduce community carbon emissions' (PDF 606 KB 11P)

Mike Hill's presentation 'Local governments in the carbon neutral space' (PDF 59 KB 14P)

Rose Read's presentation 'From Network to Collaboration: A regional alliance to drive strategic change' (PDF 484 KB 11P)