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 University of Adelaide. 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

To be profitable and effective in today's world, many businesses focus on carbon footprints and carbon compliance. This is important and can lay the groundwork for substantial business opportunities – positioning the business to be part of new clean technology, production and low carbon future economies - through effectively addressing climate change demands.

There are a plethora of business opportunities and the field can assist your career development.

To access such opportunities, on successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Plan and categorise steps to positively impact carbon management, business and climate change in an organisational and society context.
2. Identify sources of key and reputable climate change resources.
3. Locate globally relevant carbon management information and accounting frameworks.
4. Analyse real business or organisational carbon cases and look for business advantages.
5. Be insightful about how their own developmental capacity shapes and determines perspectives that they see.
6. Apply an integral framework to the adaptive challenges that are inherently part of business and carbon management. 

Note:
Throughout the course, please check your student email as course-related announcements are communicated via email. MyUni is used as an essential part of this course for the two-way sharing of information.

The course resources are structured across three major areas:

• Measurement • Management • Creating advantage
Throughout the course there is an emphasis on thinking about and asking useful questions. There may be many ‘right’ answers. The questions we are seeking to answer on carbon, business 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.

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.	http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/ 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.
http://daraint.org/2013/01/29/4370/reuters-100-million-to-die-by-2030-if-world-fails-to-act-on-climate/

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‐based 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.

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http://www.weforum.org/reports/consumption-dilemma-leverage-points-accelerating-sustainable-growth


Note: For those readings that are accessible online through the University of Adelaide (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, University of Adelaide 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.

This course is run in a seminar style and it combines the elements of lectures, guest lectures, peer learning, experiential learning, case studies and tutorial in the classes.

To facilitate learning, students both ask and answer questions as well as participate in in-class activities. Asking questions at any time during the seminar is encouraged and it is important to participate in the online activities plus course reading (see the Learning Resources section) to achieve the best results for yourself from this course.

There is a high expectation that students will engage in additional readings, including but not limited to the required and suggested readings. This maximises your (the student's) capabilities and learning and your ability to source and apply knowledge to business, carbon and climate change futures.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The information below is provided as a guide.

The University expects 36 hours of class time with an expectation of 100 hours of effort outside of the class.

Students in this course are expected to attend all classes and complete the reading, online and group activities.

The course learning activities includes the following teaching methods:

• Practical
• Written
• Experiential
• Team and small group experiential discovery
• External engagement
• Presentation
• Research
• Peer learning and presentation
• Assessment learning
• Learning Mats

Assessment Task	Weighting	Learning Outcome
Individual Assignment	50%	1,2,3,4,6
Online comment	10%	4,5,6
2 Learning Mat Exercises	10%	1,4,6
Group Project	25%	2,4,5,6
Class Insight	5%	4,5
Total	100%

For specific information and due dates please see MyUni.
Assessment is an individual assignment, group project and class contribution.

Assessment | Weighting | Related learning outcome

• Individual assignment | 50% | 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6
• Online comment | 10% | 4, 5 & 6
• 2 learning mat exercises | 10% | 1, 4 & 6
• Group project | 25% | 2, 4, 5 & 6
• Class insight | 5% | 4 & 5

Electronic submission