If you wish to attend the lecture please register here. Please note that places will only be available to those who register prior to the lecture.
Energy Technologies Perspectives 2012
Presentation of the International Energy Agency’s Flagship Energy Technology Publication
A lecture by Bo Diczfalusy, Director of the Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology, and Markus Wrake, Senior Energy Analyst and Head of the Energy Supply Technology Unit, International Energy Agency (IEA) Paris.
Abstract
Under current policies world energy demand and emissions are likely to double by 2050. However, ETP 2012 shows how the energy system could be transformed through greater energy efficiency and the integrated use of existing technologies. This would require additional investment of $36 trillion, $130 per person every year between now and 2050. It would dampen surging energy demand, reduce imports, and strengthen domestic economies. By 2050, the extra investment would more than pay for itself in fuel savings, even discounting at 10% p.a. And this transformation could be consistent with an 80% probability of limiting long-term global temperature increase to 2°C.
Biography
Markus Wråke is a Senior Energy Analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and head of the Energy Supply Technology unit. He leads the work on Energy Technology Perspectives, the flagship publication on energy technology at the IEA. Markus Wråke holds a PhD. in Environmental Management and Economics from the University of Gothenburg and an M.Sc in Environmental Engineering from Uppsala University. He has 15 years of experience from work on energy policy, technology and climate change, and has published numerous scientific papers and book chapters, as well as a large number of reports and working papers. Before joining the IEA, Markus was head of the Economics and Policy unit at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Bo Diczfalusy was appointed Director of the Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology at the International Energy Agency (IEA) on 1 December 2009.
Prior to joining the IEA, Mr. Diczfalusy – a Swedish national – spent much of his career in the Swedish government working on energy and climate change policy issues. Mr. Diczfalusy was the Programme Director of the Energy Programme at the Federation of Swedish Industries from 1997 until 2003. Most recently, he served as Director-General for Energy and Head of the Energy Division of the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, and was the Swedish representative to the IEA Governing Board from 2003 to 2009. In 2009, Mr. Diczfalusy played a prominent role during the Swedish Presidency of the European Union.
Mr. Diczfalusy graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics with a degree in International Economics.