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The TCI Climate Change – Climate Innovation Project
Impacts & Opportunities
The Team:
The TCI Climate Change - Climate Innovation Project was initiated at the 2008 TCI Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, following a presentation by Philippe Roy from Canada, in a session chaired by Dr. Lars Eklund from Sweden, assisted by Thomas Winther from Denmark. The Team at present comprises:
Philippe Roy [Canada], Walter Freundenthaler [Austria], Amit Kapoor [India], Dolores Vicisio, Jaime Moreno [Dominican Republic], Xiulin Gu, HX Duan [China], Kavore Kariuki [Kenya], Jan Sandred, Lars Eklund [Sweden], Bob Breault [USA] and Richard Walker [Australia]
The Project:
The TCI Climate Change – Climate Innovation Project’s function is to provide information to members and member organizations on the impacts of climate change and the ways that organizations and communities [particularly in less developed economies] can combat climate change [through case studies of low hanging fruit] and emphasizing the opportunities [modifications to present industries, creation of new industries and new green jobs] that arise from a low carbon economy.
Objectives:
To have a better informed TCI membership on both Climate Change impacts, and Climate Innovation opportunities, so that they can educate their clusters, develop industries and influence government policy.
Introduction
Climate Change – Climate Innovation, Threat and Opportunity
Threat
Climate Change is a tangible geometric progression of three waves, primary, secondary, tertiary, of global temperature increases, and related weather systems and environmental phenomena, driven by ever increasing CO2 in the lower atmosphere caused by human beings, giving rise to the term Anthropogenic Climate Change.
Climate Change shows up as increasing global temperature warming, from 1.7C to 5-10C projected, change to global climate systems, erratic violent weather storms, melting of polar ice caps, ocean rising, droughts, forest fires, crop failures, famine, spread of tropical diseases.
Climate Change has been caused by significant increases in CO2 and Greenhouse Gases in the lower atmosphere, arising from ever increasing use of carbon-based fossil fuels, with CO2 rising from 285 ppm to 400 ppm, well past the safe upper limit of 350 ppm. The underlying causes are population increase from 700 million in 1750 to 6.7 billion in 2005, rampant resource extraction, industrialization, manufacturing, urbanization, consumption, buildings of all types, transportation of all types, agriculture and food supply, all fuelled by carbon.
The 2007 United Nations International Panel on Climate Change Report said the world would suffer "catastrophic consequences" if it did not address Climate Change strategically and urgently.
The time line for strategic and urgent Climate Innovation action is now very short, just ten years, to save the Earth from further CO2 and GHG increases, acceleration of Climate Change by the five major positive feedback mechanisms, and taking the world irretrievably beyond the Point of No Return (PNR).
See [References Attachment A]
Opportunities
Climate Innovation, that is the rapid innovation and market deployment of multiple alternative clean renewable energy sources and technologies, to help get the world rapidly off carbon-based fossil fuels, offers tremendous business opportunities.
This follows the transformation principles articulated by economist Joseph Schumpeter, who spoke about creative destructionism, radical innovation, disruptive technologies, entrepreneurship, and many new enterprises, jobs, prosperity. Giacomo Becattini added the use of business clusters to rapidly accelerate economic and social transformation. Stuart Rosenfled applied both business clusters and business networks for economic transformation. Laurence Hewick developed and applied third generation business incubators to grow advanced technology SMEs.
TCI members globally have experience and knowledge of all of the above and can apply it very easily in support of Climate Innovation. This massive scale of global innovation would generate the Next Industrial Revolution, the Clean Revolution, and would lead to the Post Carbon Economy.
See [References Attachment A]
Papers given by the team at TCI Clusters2009
http://www.clusters2009.com/media/WS5_Walter%20Freudenthaler.pdf
http://www.clusters2009.com/media/WS_5RichardWalker.ppt
Philippe Roy will provide a copy of his paper submitted to the TCI Conference.
Identify opportunities such as [give case studies of projects/technology where able].
List of Possible Special Interest Areas
Some possible suggestions, such as:
(1) Identifying Low Hanging Fruit;
(2) Identifying New Alternative Clean Renewable Energies and Technologies (there are about 12-15 so far, and I count Smart Grids as one);
(3) Success Stories, Best Practices, Business Case Analysis;
(4) Creating Advanced Clean Technology Clusters;
(5) Leveraging Advanced Clean Technology Clusters;
(6) Focusing on Cities (Buildings, Transportation, Food Supply);
(7) Policy - Strategy, How to Move to the Post Carbon Economy;
(8) Linked Issues, e.g., Water Supply, Food Supply.
NEWS COLUMN [RHS] – to be updated regularly by TCI CC Project
Maybe create a monitored BLOG
Attachment A
Information on the impact of Climate Change
Books by Leading Global Authors:
Dyer, Gwynne Climate Wars ANZ Pub Sept 08
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.scribepublications.com.au/book/climatewars
Flannery, Tim The Weather Makers – the history and future impact of Climate Change
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.theweathermakers.org/
Flannery, Tim, Now or Never, Why We Need To Act Now To Achieve A Sustainable Future
/content.php?id=691&url=http://wwe.HarperCollins.ca
Garnaut, Ross Climate Change Review Cambridge University Press 2008 /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.garnautreview.org.au/domino/Web_Notes/Garnaut/garnautweb.nsf
Monbiot, George HEAT, How to Stop the Planet From Burning
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/11/07/heat/
Pearce, Fred The Last Generation, Key Porter Books, 2007.
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Generation-Nature-Revenge-Climate/dp/1903919878
Pearce, Fred When Rivers Run Dry - Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, Beacon Press, 2006. /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.amazon.com/When-Rivers-Run-Dry-Water/dp/0807085723
Stern, Nicholas: Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change Oct 2006
/content.php?id=691&url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm
Stern, Nicholas: The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. June 2009 /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.amazon.com/Global-Deal-Creation-Progress-Prosperity/dp/1586486691
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – Copenhagen Dec 09
/content.php?id=691&url=http://unfccc.int/2860.php
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] Report 2007
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.ipcc.ch/
Web sites for Leading Organizations on Climate Change:
Australian Government Department of Climate Change www.climatechange.gov.au
Global Net www.globe-net.com
World Wild Life Fund /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.worldwildlife.org/
David Suzuki Foundation; /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
Pembina Institute; /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.pembina.org/
Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and Economy
/content.php?id=691&url=http://nrtee-trnee.ca/eng/news-media/events/other/20th-anniversary/20th-anniversary.php
Sustainable Development Technologies Canada /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.sdtc.ca/en/index.htm
Attachment B
A list of reference materials on the Opportunities in a Post Carbon Economy
ACTU/ACF/ACOSS/Climate Institute 2008: Green Gold Rush
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/Green_Gold_Rush_final.pdf
Australian Government Department of Climate Change www.climatechange.gov.au
Community Colleges: Growing the green workforce
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.aashe.org/blog/community-colleges-pivotal-preparing-green-workforce
CSIRO – report to the Dusseldorf Skills Forum: Growing the green Collar Economy
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.csiro.au/resources/GreenCollarReport.html
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.csiro.au/science/Changing-Climate.html
Dauncey, Guy The Climate Challenge, 101 Solutions to Global Warming, Oct 2009
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.celsias.com/article/climate-challenge-101-solutions-global-warming-get/
Ellyard, Peter Designing 2050 – Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth
TPN Text 2008 /content.php?id=691&url=http://designing2050.wordpress.com/
Goodall, Chris Ten Technologies to save the Planet Profile Books 2008
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Technologies-Save-Planet-Chris-Goodall/dp/184668868X
International Economic Development Council: The Climate Prosperity Handbook - Green Savings, Green Opportunities, Green Talent
www.iedconline.com/?p=Climate_Prosperity_Handbook
Local Government Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/ANZ/CCP/CCP-AU/Projects/AI/AdaptationToolkit/Toolkit_CCPAdaptation_Final.pdf
UNEP Green Jobs: Towards decent work in a sustainable, Low-Carbon world
www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=4002
UNEP Climate Change Compendium 2009
www.unep.org/compendium2009
O’Brien, John Ed Opportunities beyond Carbon – looking forward to a sustainable world MUP 2009 /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.mup.com.au/uploads/files/acmo/OppBeyondCarbon-Preeliminary.pdf
OECD: The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action Beyond 2012
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,3343,en_2649_34361_43705336_1_1_1_37465,00.html
OECD Cost effective actions to tackle Climate Change
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/40/43656443.pdf
OECD Green Growth – overcoming the crisis and beyond Sep 2009
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/40/43176103.pdf
Climate change newsletters
The Global Foundation. Globe-Net /content.php?id=691&url=http://www.globe-net.com/email/
AdaptNet – Weekly report from the Global Cities Research Institute and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
/content.php?id=691&url=http://www.globalcollab.org/gci/adaptnet/2009/10-november-2009/