Positioning Northern Australia as a global leader in climate change mitigation & adaptation
Stuart Blanch Director Environment Centre NT
Kimberley to Cape Conservation • Indigenous Futures • Climate Change • Sustainable Industry Arafura Sea Timor Sea
Darwin Gulf of Carpentaria
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Gulf Country Across the c.250 M ha of Northern Australia, protect and sustainably manage the world’s largest intact area of tropical savannas, seas & rivers through 1.Effectively managed, connected Protected Areas conserving half the savannas (60Mha) 2.Large network of marine sanctuaries across the Arafura & Timor Seas, Gulf of Carpentaria 3. Maintaining hydrological connectivity along 1 million km of undammed rivers & creeks 4. Slowing & reversing the mammal extinction crisis 5. Storing tens of gigatons of carbon by managing fire, grazing, ferals, clearing 6. Enhancing landscape connectivity & climate resilience along 4,000km long corridor 7. Create Indigenous futures eg, Caring for Country, tourism, fee-for-service contracts 8. Supporting sustainable grazing through stewardship payments, stronger laws 9. Providing resource security for sustainability-focussed companies eg, mines, LNG 10. Reducing land-based pollution of coral reefs & fisheries in Arafura & Timor Seas 11. Building a globally significant initiative as per Canadian Boreal, Yellowstone to Yukon.
Australia-Asia Electricity Link ??
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World Solar Insolation Map
Source: AltEstore.com
NorNed – precedent for an Australia-Asia grid link?
• Connects Norwegian and Dutch electricity grids • World’s longest HVDC subsea cable at 580km • Maximum depth 410 metres • 700 MW and +/- 450 kV • 14 years from idea to trading (1994-2008). • Cost 600M euros • Using the bipolar cable, Norway sells renewable energy from hydropower to the Netherlands, which burns gas & coal, and vice versa, depending on the time of day…risks.