PROCHAIN EVENEMENT
Journées Internationales de la Chaire Modélisation prospective au service du développement durable
15 et 16 mars 2012 à MINES ParisTech, Sophia Antipolis
PARTICIPATION DE LA CHAIRE MODELISATION PROSPECTIVE A LA CONFERENCE DES NATIONS UNIES SUR LE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE - COP17 - DURBAN
LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT AND ENERGY ACCESS IN AFRICA: Mitigation, energy policy and technology challenges for Africa.
African Pavilion, 6 December 2011 - COP 17 Durban.
Any post-2012 mechanism is expected to deliver much more GHG reduction than the Kyoto protocol by 2020 and even more by 2050. The technical challenges for the world energy systems over the next 50 years are huge. As highlighted in the 2010 edition of IEA's energy technology perspective, end-use efficiency should represent as much as 38%, while several production technologies will need to be installed at extremely higher rate than those delivered by the plant construction industry.
The role of energy efficiency in achieving a 50% CO2 reduction, Source IEA ETP 2010
Plant construction challenges, Source IEA ETP 2010
In this transition to greener energy systems Africa has an expected role to play inducing both financial and energy technology implementation levels. Through a panel of academic and industrial presentations, this side event highlighted some enabling factors for an increased access to low carbon energy sources in Africa: accurate diagnosis, long term policy definition, example of business implication, technology choice.
Mr Mbacké Niang is an architect, expert counselor for Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and researcher. He will give an overciew of challenges in the buiding sector, adaptation to african context and an overview of a recent work carried on in the NECTAR project.
Mr Ferenc L. Toth is senior enrgy economist at the International Atomic Enerngy Association. As nuclear was foreseen in the IEA ETP study to grow at rates higher than the historical high, he will give an overview of the situation of nuclear energy in the world and observed trends after the Fukushima accident.
Mr Vincent Mazauric is principal scientist at Schneider. He will give an overview of a corporate initiative BiBop to "spread access to a safe, affordable and green energy for those who need it the most". He will also discuss reliability issues and the potential for solar thermodynamic for electricity production.
Mr Edi Assoumou is researcher at Mines ParisTech. He will chair the side event and give an overview of the importance of long term energy system analysis tools. Capacity building around such decision support tools in Africa is another key factor in order to integrate, over several decades, the complex interactions between demands, resources, technologies and policy objectives.
