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GLOBALIZATION PROGRAM
Thursday, 19 February 2015
at 10.30am, Aula Magna
Opening Remarks
Amb. Umberto Vattani
President
Prof. Agar Brugiavini
Dean
Honored Guest
Professor Paul Ekins
Director, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy
UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
Lectio Magistralis
2015: a Critical Year for Energy and Climate Policy
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Welcome reception
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 Paul Ekins is Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London where he also teaches Resources and Environmental Policy.
Paul Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, covering a number of areas of energy-environment-economy (E3) interaction and environmental policy, including: sustainable development assessment methodologies; resource productivity; sustainable energy use; E3 modeling and scenarios; the adjustment of national accounts to take account of environmental impacts; environmental economic instruments and ecological tax reform; sustainable consumption; and environment and trade.
He is also Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, a member of UNEP'S International Resource Panel; a Fellow of the Energy Institute; a Senior Consultant to Cambridge Econometrics; a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Systems and Modelling theme; and he leads UCL’s participation in the EPSRC SUPERGEN consortium on hydrogen fuel cells and on bioenergy research.
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