Australia-China High-level Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change &
The 8th ISETS Energy Transition Forum
Time: December 14, 2022 (Wednesday), 12:30 – 15:15 (AEST Daylight Saving)/9:30 -12:15 (Beijing Time)
Venue: Zoom Video Conference
Meeting ID: 892 3054 4321
Password: 1214
Live Stream：
https://wx.vzan.com/live/page/1666697978?v=1670896952685
1. Introduction
Relations between China and Australia are at a turning point. High-level dialogues and exchanges between the two countries have resumed since the Australian Labor Party took office in May of this year. Cooperation on energy and climate change issues can accelerate the thawing of ice since both countries share common interests in these areas.
Both countries face challenges in achieving their emissions reduction ambitions. Australia needs to accelerate its action since the currently government increased its emission reduction target for 2030 from 28% to 43%. China also needs to work harder to curb its rising emissions in order to deliver its commitments of peaking CO2 emission before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.
Australia and China have significant potential to cooperate in the areas such as phasing out of coal, sustainable development of natural gas, and development of low carbon technologies such as wind and PV, electricity vehicles, and green hydrogen, and investment and global governance. They could also cooperate to help other neighboring countries to enhance their energy transitions and climate actions.
To explore opportunities and challenges of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector and climate change areas, the Australia-China Relations Institute of University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the Institute of State Governance of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) jointly organize this ” Australia-China High-Level Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change”.
2. Agenda
| Time | Content | Host |
| 9:30 | Host Opening | Jie Chen:
Director of International Affairs Office, Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| 9:30-9:45/
12:30-12:45 (AEDT) |
Speech by Jianguo Chen, Vice President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology | |
| Speech by Leo Liu, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Global Partnerships of University of Technology Sydney | ||
| Keynote Speech | ||
| Topic: The action logic of carbon peaking & carbon neutrality and the leading role of cities
Speaker: Dr Guiyang Zhuang, Deputy director of the Research Institute for Eco-civilization of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Zhizhang Du: Vice Dean of the Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Topic: Getting there from here – opportunities and challenges for mining in the transition to global net-zero
Speaker: Dr Ross Lambie, Chief Economist, Minerals Council of Australia |
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| 10:15-10:30 | Topic: Market efficiency and social welfare under mass- and rate-based emission trading schemes
Speaker: Prof. Ying Fan, Dean, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Topic: International Green Economy Collaborations
Speaker: Dr Emma Aisbett, Associate Director, Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge, Australian National University. |
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| 10:45-11:00 | Topic: Institutional design of China’s carbon market — A case study of Hubei ETS
Speaker: Prof. Yongping Sun, Vice Dean, the Institute of State Governance, HUST |
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| 11:00-11:15 | Topic: The One Earth Climate Model – Sectoral Pathways towards Net-Zero
Speaker: Sven Teske, Research Director, the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Topic: A ready-to-implement carbon-negative option to help China achieve carbon neutrality: Biochar with biofuels
Speaker: Prof. Qing Yang, Director, School of Energy and Power Engineering, HUST |
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| 11:30-11:45 | Topic: Opportunities for Australia-China energy and climate cooperation
Speaker: Prof. Xunpeng Shi, UTS:ACRI |
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| Bilateral Dialogue | ||
| 11:45-12:10 | Discussion session | |
| Closing of the meeting | ||
| 12:10-12:15 | Summary speech by Prof. Xunpeng Shi, UTS:ACRI | |
About the Co-Organisers
Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS:ACRI).
UTS:ACRI is an independent, non-partisan research institute established in 2014 by the University of Technology Sydney. UTS:ACRI seeks to inform Australia’s engagement with China through research, analysis and dialogue grounded in scholarly rigour.
The Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
The Institute of State Governance (HUST) is a university think tank established in 2014. With the purpose of “focusing on major issues and serving national strategies”, the Institute of State Governance is committed to research on major issues of the development in China, explore the scientific development path of China’s peaceful rise, and provide theoretical reference and decision-making advice for improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS).
The ISETS is a worldwide non-profit professional organization based in Australia, which has members in over 50 nations and many international organizations. ISETS aims to facilitate an equitable and inclusive transition of energy and relevant sectors toward a sustainable low-carbon future with consideration of economic development, social equity, and environmental stewardship through international partnerships.
Australian speakers
Asso Prof. Emma Aisbett, Associate Director (Research), Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge, Australian National University.
Email:Emma.Aisbett@anu.edu.au
Emma Aisbett an Associate Professor at the ANU School of Law and Associate Director (Research) for the Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge at the Australian National University. Emma works across disciplines and sectors at the intersection of international economic regulation and the environment, most recently, on trade-related climate policy. She was awarded this year’s Journal of International Economic Law John Jackson Prize for most significantly breaking new ground. In addition to publishing in leading academic journals, Emma provides expertise to Australian Government and industry, and to international organisations such as the OECD, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UNCTAD.
Dr Ross Lambie, Chief Economist, Minerals Council of Australia.
Email: Ross.Lambie@minerals.org.au
Dr Ross Lambie is Chief Economist at the Minerals Council of Australia. Prior to joining the Minerals Council, Ross spent two years as Chief Economist and Director of Economics and Industry Policy at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has 10 years’ experience as an economist in the Australian Government, including in senior positions as Chief Economist at the Department of the Environment and Energy, and as General Manager, Resource and Energy Economics at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Ross has a strong academic background in economics, which culminated in him being awarded a PhD in Public Policy and Economics from the Australian National University. He began his career in New Zealand’s Financial Markets where he gained extensive experience over almost a decade as a trading team manager and Chief Dealer.
Ross is a member of the Australian Circular Economy Hub Advisory Board.
Prof. Xunpeng Shi, Research Principal, Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS.
Email: xunpeng.shi@uts.edu.au
Prof. Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Research Principal at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, President of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS), and a Council Member (President, 2016-2018) of the Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA). He serves as a Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Economics, a co-Editor of Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (SSCI), an associate editor of China and World Economy (SSCI), Energy Economics (SSCI), Journal of Environmental Economics (in Chinese), and other editorial roles for more than 10 journals. He is an advisor to Global Gas Center (GGC), APEC Sustainable Energy Center (APSEC), and UN ESCAP and is frequently participating in the United Nations and other international policy debates. He was listed as Australia’s leading researcher in the field of Environmental Law and Policy, the top 2% of the world’s top scientists in the energy field, and the top 1% authors in the world’s largest database of economists (RePEc). Previously, he was senior fellow and deputy head at the Energy Studies Institute (ESI), National University of Singapore, chief researcher at the Brunei National Energy Research Institute, and energy economist at the Jakarta-based Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and had diverse positions in China’s energy sector before 2006. He received LLM from the University of Dundee, MERE and PhD in Economics from the Australian National University.
Asso Prof. Sven Teske, Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS.
Email: Sven.Teske@uts.edu.au
Dr Sven Teske is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney with a research focus on energy decarbonisation pathways for specific industry sectors and regions towards Net-Zero by 2050. 100% renewable energy concepts required to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement for countries, regions, cities, microgrids for islands and the development of National Determined Contribution (NDC) reports. Furthermore, Dr Teske has over 25 years’ experience in renewable energy market and policy analysis, as well as solar and on- and offshore wind power grid integration concepts in public grids and published over 50 special reports about renewable energies including 100% Renewable Energy for Switzerland (2021), Czech Republic (2021), Italy (2020), Bangladesh (2019), Costa Rica (2019), Tanzania” (2017), the REN21 ‘Global Futures Report’ (2017) and the ‘Global Wind Energy Outlook’ (2016). Dr. Sven Teske was a lead author for the IPCC Special Report Renewables. He was a member of the expert review committee for the IEA World Energy Outlook and is a member of the advisory panel of the Japanese Renewable Energy Foundation. Among his areas of expertise are decentralized energy and renewable energy system analysis, modelling, electrification concepts for least developed countries, and 100% renewable energy pathways for CVF countries. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Flensburg in Germany.
Chinese speakers
Dr Guiyang Zhuang, Deputy director of the Research Institute for Eco-civilization of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a senior researcher at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Email: zhuang_gy@aliyun.com
Dr. Guiyang Zhang, PhD in economics, an expert with special government allowances from the State Council of China. He mainly engaged in the research work of climate change economics. He serves as one of the academic leaders of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences “Dengfeng Plan” climate change economics advantageous discipline construction project. He presided over the completion of national “Twelfth Five-Year” science and technology support plan, national key research and development plan, major projects of the National Social Science Fund, major projects of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Innovation Engineering and other national, provincial and ministerial important projects, and has won the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for many times. Award and Excellent Countermeasure Information Award. In 2019, he won the honorary title of Advanced Individual of the Second China Ecological Civilization Award.
Prof. Ying Fan, Dean, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Lab for Low-carbon Intelligent Governance of Beihang Universtiy
Email: yfan1123@buaa.edu.cn
Prof. Ying Fan is a professor and the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Beihang University, and the director of Lab for Low-carbon Intelligent Governance of Beihang University. Her research and teaching fields include energy economics, Energy-Environment-Economy system modeling, Emission Trading, climate change, energy and environmental policy, and so on. She has carried out over 60 research projects, published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals. Now she is leading an Innovative research group of NSFC titled “Green oriented complex system management and decision making”.
Prof. Qing Yang, Director, China-EU Green Energy Financial Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Email: qyang@mail.hust.edu.cn
Qing Yang is a full Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering at HUST. She also serves an associate at Harvard China Project at Harvard University since 2018, the director of China-EU Green Energy Financial Research Center since 2021, the associate editor for international journal Energy Nexus since 2021. Specialized in energy policy based on systems accounting for renewable energies and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, she has been involved in the assessment of nonrenewable energy consumption, pollutant emissions, greenhouse gas emissions from renewable energy derived processes and CCS technologies in global, national, city, plant scales, by using and modifying of a range of systems methods- energy analysis, exergy analysis, eMergy analysis, life cycle assessment and ecological footprint. With more than 100 papers been published in prestigious international journals (Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, PNAS, etc.), including 10 highly-cited papers and 2 hot papers by ESI, and 1 paper ranking Top25 hottest papers by Elsevier, her total citation is 3665, with a H index of 37. She also serves as peer reviewer for IPCC reports, prestigious international journals, a member of international society SDA and IAEE.
Prof. Yongping Sun, Vice Dean, Research Center Research Center for Global Climate Governance, the Institute of State Governance, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Email: sunyp@hust.edu.cn
Yongping Sun is a professor of School of Economics and a Vice Dean of the Institute of state Governance, HUST. He is Co-director of the Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Carbon Emissions Trading, chief expert of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, Vice President of the International Energy Transition Studies. His research focus on global climate governance and emission trading system. He is renowned for his research on China’s emission trading system. In recent years, he has published more than 70 academic papers in top journals such as Science, Energy Economics, Applied Energy and other journals.
