How to prepare better and react easier to disruptions? Join a discussion on energy security with a new perspective, and engage in exploring the multiple benefits a demand-side approach can give when society faces wars, disruptions, recessions and alike. We invite you to a seminar co-organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) under the umbrella of EDITS initiative (Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations) on 11 December 2023 at the UNFCCC COP28.
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IIASA and RITE organize a thought-provoking event on promising societal and technological transformations that enable a better response to a variety of disruptions. The seminar will discuss energy supply and use disruptions, pandemics, conflicts, as well as more recurring extreme weather events (heatwaves, cyclones, etc.). Innovative demand-based solutions lead to faster, more persistent and more effective outcomes, through focusing on prevention, co-benefits and wellbeing provisions in comparison with supply-side focus.
Come in person: Japanese Pavilion, Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Join online: https://iiasa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OxUPxG0rTS6TUhM_xB4LCQ (registration is a prerequisite)
AGENDA
Moderator: Nebojsa Nakicenovic, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
18:00-18:05 Welcome and opening
Nebojsa Nakicenovic, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
18:05-18:15 Importance of demand side solutions for the transformation towards net-zero society
Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan
18:15-18:30 Greater leverage for energy security with demand-side policies
Nuno Bento, University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte), Portugal
18:30-18:40 Urban space and society in times of crises: the role of demand-side innovations
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University (CEU), IPCC Vice-chair
18:40-18:50 Bridging the knowledge gap to empower demand-side solutions: special reference to Global South
Joyashree Roy, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
18:50-19:15 Moderated panel discussion with speakers: demand-side innovations and their connection to energy security
Ensuring wellbeing and access to essential and social services is why society requires materials and energy. This seminar presents the roles of technological, social and infrastructural innovations that can not only lead development to wellbeing to all, but also prepare our infrastructures, cities and rural spaces, societies to be more resilient and increase energy security, even more energy services security.
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