Energy: ethics, politics and economics
The energy challenge is now known to be related in a fundamental way the global environmental challenge. Both have major ethical, political and economic implications. For both, a key concept is sustainability, whose ramifications and implications are emerging from research involving the physical and natural scientists on one hand and the social scientists on the other. The sustainability of development is being put under serious pressure by the burgeoning economic growth of the Asian economies and their billions of citizens. Strategies to address energy needs and environmental problems must be practical enough to form a basis for stable international agreements but cannot afford to neglect the ethical dimension, since decisions are being taken that will have major impacts on future generations.
Morning
h. 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Chairs: Ignazio Musu and Philip Pettit
Joachim Schellnhuber
Climate change: a grand challenge for sustainability science
Vaclav Smil
Energy transitions: expectations and realities
Carlo Carraro
Climate policy in the post-Kyoto world. Incentives, institutions and equity
Video J. Schellnhuber, V. Smil, C. Carraro
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Partha Dasgupta
Globalization and the natural environment
David Blackbourn
The culture and politics of energy in Germany: an historical perspective
Panel discussion
Video P. Dasgputa, D. Blackbourn, discussion
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Afternoon
h. 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Chairs: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
Jean Jacquinot
The case for a world collaboration on fusion and ITER
Fulvio Conti
Energy supply equation
Giuliano Amato
Closing Lecture
Final Remarks
Giovanni Bazoli, Chiara Tonelli, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Umberto Veronesi
Video J. Jacquinot, F. Conti, G. Amato, remarks
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