{"id":29192,"date":"2019-11-21T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=29192"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:38:19","slug":"delina-convening-two-workshops-on-energy-futures-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2019\/11\/21\/delina-convening-two-workshops-on-energy-futures-in-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Delina Convenes Two Workshops on Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Laurence Delina<\/a>, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a pair of interdisciplinary workshops\u00a0on the future of energy systems in developing countries.<\/p>\n

The first workshop, which was held\u00a0November 1-2 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, focused on China\u2019s\u00a0rapidly expanding\u00a0investments in energy infrastructure, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the Indo-Pacific region\u2019s vast energy demand. The workshop, titled \u201cSinonization of Indo-Pacific\u2019s Energy Futures? Investigating China\u2019s Belt-and-Road Initiative Energy Investments in Asia and the Pacific,” brought together a group of early-career and senior researchers to present their in-progress papers.\u00a0This collection of papers sought to expand understanding of one of the fastest-growing research areas in Asian studies: the scale, scope, and impacts of China\u2019s BRI as funding is made available to close energy infrastructure gaps in recipient countries in the Indo-Pacific region. The participants focused on the multiple facets and implications of the BRI to the heterogeneous futures of Indo-Pacific\u2019s energy systems, which comes at a critical juncture given Asia\u2019s aging energy infrastructure, increasing demand for energy, the climate emergency, and the quest for sustainable development for all. The collection of papers is expected to appear as a special issue in an academic journal in 2021.\u00a0The International Studies Association<\/a> provided funding for the workshop.<\/p>\n

The second workshop, which was held November 8-9 in Bali, Indonesia, explored climate system intervention technologies. The workshop\u00a0comprised 22 participants from various disciplines and practice, including from energy and climate modeling, climate and energy policy and governance, and critical social science from and within the Southeast Asian region. Several new research directions were identified in the study of: engineering systems and technologies and their potentials and benefits for Southeast Asia, particularly highlighting carbon reduction techniques; the policy and governance aspects of solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal as it relates to the region; modeling multi-country impacts; the politics and political economy of these techniques; and establishing a knowledge network. The World Academy of Sciences Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative<\/a> provided funding for the workshop.<\/p>\n

Delina recently began a new position as an assistant professor at the Division of Environment and Sustainability<\/a> at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/a>. While a post-doctoral associate at the Pardee Center from 2015-2019, Delina led a research project called\u00a0The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries<\/a>, which\u00a0sought to understand the options and trade-offs\u00a0for achieving a\u00a0secure and sustainable energy future in a select number of developing countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a pair of interdisciplinary workshops\u00a0on the future of energy systems in developing countries. The first workshop, which was held\u00a0November 1-2 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, focused on China\u2019s\u00a0rapidly expanding\u00a0investments in energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5451,60],"tags":[5389,5363,5411,3461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29367,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions\/29367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}