Fundamental, game-changing transformations are needed for a shift toward more sustainable development paths. Professor Nebojsa Nakicenovic, outlines how an integrated approach to policy development, and technological investment could substantially improve efforts to decarbonize the global economy, secure sustainable energy supplies for all, while tackling climate change and other environmental, development and human health issues.

The presentation will draw on the work of IIASA and the preliminary findings of Global Energy Assessment, one of the largest and most comprehensive assessments ever undertaken of the global energy system.

To attend this event please contact

• Mrs. Silvia Hartendorp: ESS CC, Wageningen UR:
  silvia.hartendorp(at)wur.nl 

About the speaker
Nebojsa Nakicenovic is Director of the Global Energy Assessment, Deputy Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology. Among his many international roles he is also a Member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Coordinating Lead Author of the Assessment Report of the IPCC Assessment Reports and the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios.

About the Global Energy Assessment
The Global Energy Assessment involves more than 300 authors and 200 anonymous reviewers from a range of disciplines, industry groups, and policy areas in defining a new global energy policy agenda Coordinated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) the GEA is led by some of the world’s leading energy experts, in research, academia, business, industry and policy, representing both the developed and the developing world. GEA is the first ever fully integrated energy assessment analyzing energy challenges, opportunities and strategies, for developing, industrialized and emerging economies. It is supported by government and non-governmental organizations, the United Nations System, and the private sector.

About IIASA 
IIASA is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. The research findings provide valuable options to policy makers to shape the future of our changing world.

IIASA is independent and funded by scientific institutions in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. http://www.iiasa.ac.at.

More back ground information on the ESS CC website.