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Name: Dr Simon Divecha Dr Simon Divecha MAICD
Simon Divecha is a director of Greenmode, an Associate of MetaIntegral and researches climate change and business innovation with the Business School at the 成人大片. He has two decades of experience creating environmental change, addressing climate change and, leading programs that today create the conditions for the growth of sustainable organisations and societies.
Simon has worked extensively on environmental, social, community and business issues, at the international, national and local levels. This includes directly with major businesses, as well as directing programs internationally with Greenpeace and, as CEO of the Conservation Council of South Australia. For example, with business, he played a leading role in the successful bid (by a consortium comprising BP Solar, Origin Energy, Lend Lease, Big Switch Projects, ANZ Bank and Salisbury region government) to establish Adelaide as Australia's first Solar City.

Recognition of Simon's work includes a University Medal for outstanding doctoral research, the Dean's commendation for his PhD thesis, an Australian Davos Connection Future Summit Leadership Award, alumni member of the Commonwealth Study Conference (Delhi), Next Generation Leadership Program, Australia-Korea Green Growth (Korea), scholarships to Harvard/Australia/China Climate Symposium (USA) and Integral Sustainability (USA). Simon is a Social Leadership Australia alumnus, honorary member of the Leaders Institute of SA and SA Plan Alliance Partner.

Simon Divecha - Mobile: +61 411 64 64 28 | Email: simon.divecha@adelaide.edu.au

Specifically, many businesses will focus on carbon footprint and carbon compliance with Australian (or relevant country) legislation. This is an important focus and can lay the groundwork for substantial business opportunities – positioning the business to be part of a new clean technology or low carbon future economy - through effectively addressing climate change demands. Beyond such business opportunities the field also can assist your career development.

The course objectives are to enhance and develop understanding and abilities in these areas:

• Measure
          • What should we measure and why.
          • Carbon footprint measurement.
• Manage
          • What can, could and should be your business or organisation’s objectives. 
          • Setting the agenda.
          • The plan, including: reduce fuel and power use; switch to clean power/fuels; offset emissions; and, achievements – monitor, validate and engage.
• Advantage
          • Tangible value – the business case for action.
          • Opportunities and the new economy - carbon and business futures.
Throughout the course there will be an emphasis on thinking about and asking useful questions. There may be many ‘right’ answers. The questions we are seeking to answer on carbon and climate change are not always clear or known.

As there is a fair amount of reading in the course, I strongly recommend that you begin your reading now. It is essential that you keep up to date with your readings if you are to get the most from each class. Please check MyUni for Class 1 reading list.

By the end of the course, I hope that you will have a broad understanding of the central issues faced in this young field of learning and, be on the way to developing your own future visions for the contribution that organisations, managers and individuals, can make to addressing climate change.

Please check your student email as course-related announcements are communicated via email.
MyUni will also be an important vehicle for two-way sharing of information.

Textbooks

 The texts for this course are:

1. Lingl, P., Carlson, D. and David Suzuki Foundation (2010), Doing Business in a New Climate, A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Earthscan, London
2. Torbert, B. and Associates (2004) Action Inquiry, Berrett-Koehler, California USA

Required Reading: Required reading for the course includes the following articles and reports. Please check MyUni for the required (and additional optional) reading for each class. Please also complete the feedback (online on MyUni) for each class by the end of the Monday before the class.

Books	E-resource
Torbert, W. R., Cook-Greuter, S. R., Fisher, D., Foldy, E., Gauthier, A., Keeley, J., . . . Tran, M. (2004). Action inquiry: The secret of timely and transformational leadership. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.	MyUni pdf file: Action Logics 24 page intro.pdf (remaining pages in book only)
Lingl, P., Carlson, D., & The David Suzuki Foundation. (2010). Doing business in a new climate: A guide to measuring, reducing & offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.	downloads/2010/Doing_Business_excerpt_2010.pdf

The course contains a significant range of additional reading and reference materials. Please note that additional reading, to inform and answer specific questions as they arise throughout the course, may be added via My Uni. You’ll be advised about this.

Readings
Allcott, H., & Mullainathan, S. (2010). Behavioral science and energy policy. Science, 327(5970), 1204-1205.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5970/1204.full

Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change. (2006). The business case for early action. http://www.businessroundtable.com.au/html/documents.html

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. (2008). Carbon claims and the Trade Practices Act (pp. 13-16): Commonwealth of Australia.
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/item.phtml?itemId=833279&nodeId=2fcaa701a3694ef97876a9a77db6f88f&fn=Carbon%20claims%20and%20the%20Trade%20Practices%20Act.pdf

Brown, B. C. (2011). Conscious Leadership For Sustainability: How Leaders With A Late-Stage Action Logic Design And Engage In Sustainability Initiatives (PhD), Fielding Graduate University.
http://integralthinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/Brown_2011_Conscious-leadership-for-sustainability_Full-dissertation_v491.pdf

Caldeira, K., Morgan, M. G., Baldocchi, D., Brewer, P. G., Chen, C. T. A., Nabuurs, G. J., . . . Robertson, G. P. (2004). A portfolio of carbon management options. Scope-scientific committee on problems of the environment international council of scientific unions, 62, 103-130.

Carbon Disclosure Project. (2013). What is driving climate change action in the world's largest companies? CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013 (pp. 60).
https://www.cdp.net/CDPResults/CDP-Global-500-Climate-Change-Report-2013.pdf

Carbon Market Institute. (2013). The state of the Australian Carbon Market 2013 (pp. 24).
http://www.carbonmarketinstitute.org/Library/PageContentVersionAttachment/44a7f83f-9da6-4787-b440-3f87b29efdb0/State_of_the_Australian_Carbon_Market_2013.pdf

Ceres and the Investor Network on Climate Risk. (2008). Managing the risks and opportunities of climate change: A practical toolkit for investors.
http://www.ceres.org//Document.Doc?id=332

Climate Works Australia. (2013). Tracking progress towards a low carbon economy: Climate Works Australia Clayton.

DARA. (2013). Reuters: 100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate Retrieved 12 April 2013.

DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum. (2012). Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet. In M. McKinnon (Ed.), (pp. 358). Madrid: Fundación DARA Internacional.
http://www.daraint.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/CVM2-Low.pdf

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. (2010). The National Carbon Offset Standard (pp. 6-14): Australian Government.
http://daraint.org/2013/01/29/4370/reuters-100-million-to-die-by-2030-if-world-fails-to-act-on-climate/

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. (2011). Responses to Professor Ian Plimer's 101 climate questions (pp. 39): Australian Government.
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/understanding-climate-change/~/media/climate-change/prof-plimer-101-questions-response-pdf.pdf

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. (2013). National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting. Australian Government.

Dietz, T., Gardner, G. T., Gilligan, J., Stern, P. C., & Vandenbergh, M. P. (2009). Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(44), 18452-18456.
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/44/18452.full

Dietz, T., Ostrom, E., & Stern, P. C. (2003). The struggle to govern the commons. Science, 302(5652), 1907-1912.
http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/content/302/5652/1907.full

Divecha, S. (2013). Media is missing climate in heatwave story. The Conversation.
https://theconversation.edu.au/media-is-missing-climate-in-heatwave-story-11487

Divecha, S., Rakova, U., & Oakwood, M. (2000). Cyanide Crash - Tolukuma Gold Mine Cyanide Spill in Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby: Mineral Policy Institute, Greenpeace, Environmental Law Centre PNG.

Divecha, S., Whitfield, L., Ball, R., & Carre, A. (2009). Achieving Factor 5 improvements in Typical Australian House Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity.

Eberlein, B., & Matten, D. (2009). Business responses to climate change regulation in Canada and Germany: lessons for MNCs from emerging economies. Journal of business ethics, 86, 241-255.
http://www.springerlink.com.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/content/n2qv4003j0x41630/

Ehrlich, P. R., & Ehrlich, A. H. (2013). Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1754).

Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Working Group. (2003). Towards a National Framework for Energy Efficiency Issues and Challenges Discussion Paper: Governments of Australia, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.
http://www.ret.gov.au/documents/mce/energy-eff/nfee/_documents/nfee_discussio.pdf

Garnaut, R. (2009). The Garnaut climate change review: final report: Cambridge University Press.
http://www.garnautreview.org.au/chp18.htm

Greenhouse Gas Protocol. (2004). A corporate accounting and reporting standard. World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
http://www.ghgprotocol.org/standards/corporate-standard or
http://www.ghgprotocol.org/files/ghgp/public/ghg-protocol-revised.pdf directly.

Hamilton, K., Sjardin, M., Peters-Stanley, M., & Marcello, T. (2010). Building bridges: state of the voluntary carbon markets 2010. Ecosystem Marketplace & Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 14, Executive Summary.
Executive Summary: http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_2434.pdf

Hawken, P., Lovins, A. B., & Lovins, L. H. (1999). Natural capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co.
http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid57.php

Henrich, J. (2006). Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions. Science, 312, 60-61.
http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/content/312/5770/60

Hubbard, G. (2009). Measuring organizational performance: beyond the triple bottom line. Business Strategy and the Environment, 18(3), 177-191.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/113518348/PDFSTART

Karoly, D., England, M., & Steffen, W. (2013). Off the charts: Extreme Australian summer heat. Canberra: Climate Commision.
http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/CC_Jan_2013_Heatwave4.pdf

Kolk, A., Levy, D., & Pinkse, J. (2008). Corporate responses in an emerging climate regime: the institutionalization and commensuration of carbon disclosure. European Accounting Review, 17(4), 719-745.
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/david_levy/EAR2008.pdf

Kollmuss, A., & Agyeman, J. (2002). Mind the gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Environmental education research, 8(3), 239-260.

Lichtenstein, B. M. (1997). Grace, magic and miracles: A “chaotic logic” of organizational transformation. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 10(5), 393-411.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/journals.htm?issn=0953-4814&volume=10&issue=5&articleid=1410982&show=pdf

Lipton, D. (2013). Energy subsidy reform: the way forward: International Monetary Fund.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2013/032713.htm

Lohmann, L. (2008). Six arguments against carbon trading.
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2008/09/29/carbon-trading-the-wrong-way-to-deal-with-global-warming/

Matthews, H. S., Hendrickson, C. T., & Weber, C. L. (2008). The importance of carbon footprint estimation boundaries. Environmental science & technology, 42(16), 5839-5842.
http://pubs.acs.org.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1021/es703112w

Matthews, H. S., Weber, C., & Hendrickson, C. T. (2008). Estimating carbon footprints with input-output models. Paper presented at the International Input Output Meeting on Managing the Environment, Seville (Spain).
http://www.iioa.org/pdf/Intermediate-2008/Papers/1c1_Matthews.pdf

Meadows, D. (1996). Envisioning a sustainable world. Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics, Island Press, Washington, DC, 117-126.
http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/Indicators&Information.pdf

Meadows, D. (2002). Dancing with systems. Systems Thinker, 13(2), 2-6.
http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/Dancing.html

Meadows, D. H. (1998). Indicators and information systems for sustainable development: Sustainability Institute Hartland.
http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/Envisioning.DMeadows.pdf

NASA Earth Observatory. (2013, 16 January 2013). Long-Term Global Warming Trend Continues Retrieved 18 April 2013.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80167

O'Brien, J. (2009). Opportunities Beyond Carbon, Looking Forward to a Sustainable World: Melbourne University Press. MyUni – Course Material: Opportunities Beyond Carbon - Chapter 10 OBrien.pdf

O'Brien, K. L., & Wolf, J. (2010). A values鈥恇ased approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(2), 232-242.

Ostrom, E. (1998). A behavioral approach to the rational choice theory of collective action: Presidential address, American Political Science Association, 1997. American Political Science Review, 1-22.
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/stable/2585925

Ostrom, E. (2010a). Beyond markets and states: polycentric governance of complex economic systems. The American economic review, 100(3), 641-672.

Ostrom, E. (2010b). Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change. Global Environmental Change, 20(4), 550-557.

Ostrom, E., Burger, J., Field, C. B., Norgaard, R. B., & Policansky, D. (1999). Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Science, 284(5412), 278.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic209735.files/Revisiting_the_Commons.pdf

Pacala, S., & Socolow, R. (2004). Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science, 305(5686), 968.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5686/968.full

Scharmer, C. O. (2009). Theory U: Leading from the future as it emerges. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
http://www.presencing.com/docs/publications/execsums/Theory_U_Exec_Summary.pdf
Searchinger, T. D., Hamburg, S. P., Melillo, J., Chameides, W., Havlik, P., Kammen, D. M., . . .Oppenheimer, M. (2009). Fixing a critical climate accounting error. Science, 326(5952), 527.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5952/527.short

Sen, A. (1977). Rational fools: A critique of the behavioral foundations of economic theory. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 6(4), 317-344.

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency.

Senge, P. M., Scharmer, C. O., Jaworski, J., & Flowers, B. S. (2004). Presence: Human purpose and the field of the future: SoL Cambridge, MA.
MyUni – Course Material: Presence Intro Senge 2004 ; and, http://www.presence.net/pdf/presence_intro.pdf

Simon, H. A. (1979). Rational decision making in business organizations. The American economic review, 69(4), 493-513.

Slaughter, R. (2004). Transcending Flatland: Implications of Ken Wilber's meta-narrative for futures studies Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight: Routledge Falmer.

Smith, J. B., Schneider, S. H., Oppenheimer, M., Yohe, G. W., Hare, W., Mastrandrea, M. D., . . . van
Ypersele, J.-P. (2009). Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0812355106

Steffen, W. (2013). The Angry Summer. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency). http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/Angry-Summer-amended-040313-web.pdf

Sterman, J. D., & Sweeney, L. B. (2007). Understanding public complacency about climate change: Adults’ mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter. Climatic Change, 80(3), 213-238.

Stern, N., & Treasury, G. (2007). The economics of climate change: the Stern review: Cambridge Univ Pr.

Symon, C. (2013). Climate change: Action, trends and implications for business The IPCC's fifth assessment report, working group 1: IPCC and University of Cambridge.

Von Weizsacker, E., Hargroves, K., Smith, M., Hargroves, K., Desha, C., & Stasinopoulos, P. (2009). Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy Through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity: Earthscan/James & James.
http://www.naturaledgeproject.net/Documents/F5CH1SectorStudyIntroduction.pdf

Wells, S., & Betz, S. (2009). From scarcity to abundance - organisational sustainability and the role of the civic entrepreneur. International Journal for Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 5(1), 211-228.

Wilber, K. (2000). A Brief History of Everything (2nd ed.). Boston USA: Shambhala Publications.

World Economic Forum. (2011). The consumption dilemma (pp. 5-36).
http://www.weforum.org/reports/consumption-dilemma-leverage-points-accelerating-sustainable-growth


Note: For those readings that are accessible online through the 成人大片 (Barr Smith) Library or elsewhere on the Internet, the URLs are provided. For Barr Smith resources you will need to undergo a user authentication procedure after clicking on the URL to access the online resource. To identify you with a valid username and password, 成人大片 students should use their University Username (e.g. "jsmith01" or "a1234567") and Password. Remember that if you are entering the library system from outside the university network, you will need to add the library ‘proxy’ address http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= at the front of the URL of the online resource. Alternatively, bookmark Adelaide University Google Scholar http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url=http://scholar.google.com.au/ and search for the article or reference. This is often just as easy if not faster.

In addition to the required reading for each class, you are strongly encouraged to explore the literature of carbon management and organisational sustainability according to your interests and your vision. No one can read everything. The suggested additional readings are just snippets from a vast literature in books, in journals, and on line. You should feel confident to follow a particular thread (or author) that interests you and bring your findings and thoughts to share in the classroom and enrich your assignments.