PAST EVENT
Future Scenarios for China's Carbon Emissions
ETIP Occasional Speaker Series
Series: Energy Technology Innovation Policy Occasional Speaker Series
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
July 7, 2008
12:00-1:30 p.m.
| Speaker: | Jim Watson, Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex |
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Environment and Natural Resources
Description:
Jim Watson, Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, U.K., will present work on a project funded by the U.K. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to study "China's Energy Transition." The project is assessing alternative energy and carbon emissions futures for China, and aims to inform policy making in both China and the UK.
The presentation will include highlights of the project's two main areas:
1. An analysis of China's current emissions and the extent to which they can be attributed to goods that are exported to developed countries.
2. Future emissions scenarios through which the group is exploring the compatibility of current energy & climate policies in China with the long-term need for global limits on emissions.
Further information about the project is available at www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexenergygroup/1-2-11.html.
Speaker Info:
Dr Jim Watson is Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex University in the UK and Joint Deputy Leader of the Tyndall Centre Climate Change and Energy Programme. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Jim trained as an engineer at Imperial College London and has a PhD in science and technology policy from Sussex University. He manages and conducts research on energy and climate policy. His UK-based projects focus on the economic and policy aspects of distributed energy systems (particularly micro-generation), the economics of carbon capture and storage, and the potential impacts of a new programme of nuclear power.
His international research includes work on low carbon technology transfer - including advice to the British, Chinese and Indian governments - and managing Tyndall Centre research on future energy and climate scenarios for China. Jim is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics and a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
Contact:
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