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  The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) has proposed an international oil depletion protocol known as the “Rimini Protocol” or the “Uppsala Protocol”. Participating oil producing nations would voluntarily reduce production to match their depletion rate. Participating oil consuming nations would reduce their imports at the world oil depletion rate. The objective is to minimise international upheaval by cooperatively managing the oil price while encouraging conservation (Heinberg, 2005) The alternative could be war and economic collapse on an unprecedented scale. At the very least it would combat the view that Australia can go it alone, squandering its own gas and oil resources while the rest of the world fights amongst itself.
  
  **Recommendation: the Commonwealth should help initiate international negotiations toward an oil depletion protocol.**
  
- === International competition for Australia's energy reserves ===
+ === Australia's international energy relations ===
  
  Post-peak Australia may develop a new conception of itself as a relative safe-haven from a world of troubles. The tyranny of distance may end up being our saving. However Australian energy reserves are much sought-after, particularly due to our political stability. We should bear Peak Oil (and gas) in mind when we sign decade-long energy agreements to supply other nations.
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+ International relations will likely be lessed centred around great powers and more about cooperating with your neighbours. This phenomenon is already emerging in Latin America and between India and Pakistan.
  
  In a world of oil scarcity, with melting icesheets, it is even conceivable that many nations may attempt to conduct oil exploration in Antarctica. As a claimant to a large portion of Antarctica, the Commonwealth needs to be vigilant.
  
  **Recommendation: the inquiry examine whther current gas export agreements are viable given our own energy demands after the peak of world oil production; the Commonwealth ensures that all oil reserves under its control are exploited as sustainably as possible and are not squandered.**



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