PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Location: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane
Capacity for the workshop is limited - please register early to secure your place
Once Workshops are sold out we will put a waiting list in place
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Location: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane
Capacity for the workshop is limited - please register early to secure your place
Once Workshops are sold out we will put a waiting list in place
WORKSHOP 3 (DECARBONISATION):RESOURCES TRANSITIONS AND THE QUEENSLAND AND AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIES
Convenor: Stuart Whitten, CSIRO Environment
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Overview: The Australian economy has experienced enormous growth in resources extraction over the past two decades with substantial structural implications for national, state and regional economies. The pressures of building a carbon neutral economy, both globally and nationally, are likely to drive further substantial structural changes over the coming decades. This workshop will focus on how recent resource booms have been experienced at scales from local communities to the national economy, what lessons we can learn to help guide future transitions, and on where, how and why future transitions may differ from those we have experienced in the past.
The objective of this workshop is to explore: - Our understanding of the impacts of recent resources booms on local, state and national economies, including how these have differed by commodity. - Explore the challenges facing the Australian resources sector as Australia, alongside other countries, strives to achieve net zero emissions over the coming decades. - Explore how future transitions may play out differently for communities, states and the nation to those we have experienced in the past. The workshop will timely for traditional AARES attendees and attractive to our Queensland audience given the mining sector is the largest economic contributor to the Queensland economy at $86.5b (GVA 22/23) and contributes more than 50,000 jobs.
Queensland’s economy is also the most exposed amongst Australia’s states and territories to the decline in fossil fuel extraction and exports as the global economy transitions towards net zero. Our aim is for workshop attendees to leave with an understanding of the how mining and resource transitions are likely to generate structural changes in local, state and national economy – past, present and future. Participants will leave better informed to consider and contribute to debates around the differential nature of past and future transitions across coal, gas, iron ore and transition minerals.
The workshop will predominantly target professionals who need to understand the likely transition challenges at scales from local to national, including those in state and national governments supporting policy development, consultants keen to understand the state of play, and stakeholders keen to identify sectoral challenges and opportunities.
Format:
Session 1 – Setting the scene: Resources transitions past present and future
Session 2 – The Queensland gas and coal boom – what did it mean for local, state and national economies?
Session 3 – The great transition –what does a net zero future mean for Queensland and Australia’s resource economies?
Session 4 – Past, present and future – challenges and opportunities for the resource sector
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Overview: The Australian economy has experienced enormous growth in resources extraction over the past two decades with substantial structural implications for national, state and regional economies. The pressures of building a carbon neutral economy, both globally and nationally, are likely to drive further substantial structural changes over the coming decades. This workshop will focus on how recent resource booms have been experienced at scales from local communities to the national economy, what lessons we can learn to help guide future transitions, and on where, how and why future transitions may differ from those we have experienced in the past.
The objective of this workshop is to explore: - Our understanding of the impacts of recent resources booms on local, state and national economies, including how these have differed by commodity. - Explore the challenges facing the Australian resources sector as Australia, alongside other countries, strives to achieve net zero emissions over the coming decades. - Explore how future transitions may play out differently for communities, states and the nation to those we have experienced in the past. The workshop will timely for traditional AARES attendees and attractive to our Queensland audience given the mining sector is the largest economic contributor to the Queensland economy at $86.5b (GVA 22/23) and contributes more than 50,000 jobs.
Queensland’s economy is also the most exposed amongst Australia’s states and territories to the decline in fossil fuel extraction and exports as the global economy transitions towards net zero. Our aim is for workshop attendees to leave with an understanding of the how mining and resource transitions are likely to generate structural changes in local, state and national economy – past, present and future. Participants will leave better informed to consider and contribute to debates around the differential nature of past and future transitions across coal, gas, iron ore and transition minerals.
The workshop will predominantly target professionals who need to understand the likely transition challenges at scales from local to national, including those in state and national governments supporting policy development, consultants keen to understand the state of play, and stakeholders keen to identify sectoral challenges and opportunities.
Format:
Session 1 – Setting the scene: Resources transitions past present and future
Session 2 – The Queensland gas and coal boom – what did it mean for local, state and national economies?
Session 3 – The great transition –what does a net zero future mean for Queensland and Australia’s resource economies?
Session 4 – Past, present and future – challenges and opportunities for the resource sector
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