Sustainability: getting it right through stakeholder engagement and peer research

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Sustainability getting it right through
stakeholder engagement and peer research

• Mr Paul Graham
• Greener Skies 2009
• 6 October 2009

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Overview

• Stakeholder engagement on a sustainable aviation
  industry
• Principles
• Current Australasian activities
• Australian biofuel challenges
• Research priorities and knowledge gaps
• Climate change

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Industry consensus building on sustainable
aviation
Environment groups
Alternative fuel suppliers
Can these groups agree on

• The scale of the challenge?
• Barriers to change?
• Who has a stake?
• How each is impacted?
• Actions that make a difference?

Aviation companies
Conventional fuel suppliers
Government / Society
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Key principles of consensus process

• All constructive stakeholders included
• If the strategy can only proceed when there is
  broad consensus, leaving out oppositional voices
  is counter-productive
• Focus consensus building on the challenges and
  possible range of actions
• NOT on specific desired actions
• Experience shows there is always far more
  agreement and consensus than expected

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Key principles of consensus process

• A supporting fact base using a common methodology
• NOT my consultant versus yours
• Remembering that not everyone at the table shares
  the same level of knowledge
• Transparency
• Whatever consensus can be achieved is always
  worth sharing and allows the debate to move on

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Current Australasian Road Map activity

• A scoping project
• Stakeholder review
• Preliminary assessment of the challenges and
  barriers to change
• Review of fact base required to support Road Map
  process
• Current Participants
• Qantas, Virgin Blue, Air New Zealand, Boeing,
  Defence (Australia) CSIRO

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Research priorities

• Achieved
• Assessment of scope for 1st generation biofuels
• Partial assessment of 2nd generation
• Road Map for land transport and other uses of
  bioenergy
• Gaps
• Full assessment of potential of 2nd generation
  biofuels

Exotic / non-food based Sustainability issues,
criteria and indicators
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Climate change potential impacts on Australia
will be across all sectors and regions
Water security problems are likely to intensify
in southern and eastern Australia
Greater risks for coastal flooding from
sea-level rise and storm surges
Reduced production in agriculture and forestry
in south and east
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Thank you
CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship Paul
Graham Theme Leader Energy Futures Phone 61 2
4960 6061 Email paul.graham_at_csiro.au Web
www.csiro.au/energyfutures