Indigenous engagement with renewable energy industries

In late 2018, staff from CAEPR contributed to a successful bid to win the ANU Grand Challenges Scheme (http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/vcs-update-anu-grand-challenges-scheme) The bid was led by the Energy Change Institute (http://energy.anu.edu.au), and is entitled Zero Carbon Energy for the Asia Pacific (http://energy.anu.edu.au/eci-grand-challenge).

The Zero Carbon Energy project has been funded from 2019 to 2023.

The ANU Energy Change Institute’s Grand Challenge – Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific (ZCEAP) – recognizes that Australia is a renewable-energy, resource-rich nation, whose immediate neighbours in the Asia-Pacific will account for two-thirds of the world’s energy demand growth in the coming decades. Decarbonizing that additional energy use and cutting existing emissions from the region are essential if the world is to have any chance of meeting its goals for limiting climate change. Read more