Annual Meeting 2014: Energy Geographies in International Perspective

Overview

Organizer:

Workspace Economic and Social Geography/Department of Geography of the University of Bonn (GIUB) and Working Group of Geographical Energy Research of the German Society for Geography (DGFG)

Date:

Friday 21 and November 22, 2014 at the Institute of Geography, University of Bonn

The transition to renewable energy and carbon-neutral energy supply has become an important policy objective worldwide. In this context, country-specific differences in development paths can be observed. In particular for "energy -hungry" emerging markets , but also for other countries and regions in the global South, the transformation of energy systems opens up the opportunity to learn from leading countries. The geography with its focus on integrating perspectives can make a valuable contribution to this topic. Against this background, the annual meeting in 2014 deals with international perspectives of energy geographies .

Global Perspectives of Renewable Energies

Speaker:

Ruud Kempener (analyst for technology project plans for IRENA), per pro. for Roland Roesch (Senior Programme Officer, Renewable Energy Markets and Technology Dialogue with IRENA)

In this lecture, key issues and questions of the nexus energy, geography and development have been identified: What are key sectors of the energy sector ? To what extend are renewable energies (RE ) and energy efficiency relevant for future growth ? How can you open up the use of renewable energy even further ? How to finance the use of EE ? Who plays central roles in the field of EE? ( Private actors such as companies, institutions and households, state actors such as government bodies of the Government of India/cp. Point 3, Universities etc.).