Speaker: Joni Jupesta, Post Doctoral Fellow, United Nations
University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan.
Date: Monday, 11 July 2011
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: ESI Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Block A #10-01
Singapore 119620
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Synopsis
One of the greatest challenges in this century is climate change. Globally, the sources of greenhouse gas emissions in 2004 were, among others, energy supply (57%), deforestation (17%), and methane from fields and cattle (14%). Most of the GHG emitters are rapidly growing, particularly in emerging economies such as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, etc. Their high annual economic growth requires staggering amounts of energy. The resulting environmental damage results in significant costs in terms of weakened health, decreased agricultural productivity and material damage – all equivalent, perhaps, to at least half of the nominal GNP growth.
To overcome this situation, a green growth strategy could be developed. Such a strategy involves removal of barriers such as oil subsidies, acceleration of innovation and diffusion of green technologies, and support of transitions through strengthening of international cooperation and development of a transparent accounting framework. The transitions would entail new interactions in the energy sector, such as a shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources like biofuels, geothermal, solar and other renewable energy sources. What is needed is an integrated system which incorporates technology, policy and social responses to achieve global sustainability.
In this seminar the speaker employs a `transition dynamics and delimitation` system to demonstrate how the management of such a transition process could occur in Indonesia. Weights are assigned to the constraints which inhibit this transition process. In 2005, this economy ac-counted for only 0.6% of global GDP, but it emitted about 2.1 giga-tons of CO2, equivalent to just under 5% of global GHG emissions.
About the speaker
Joni Jupesta has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU - IAS) in Japan since October 2010. His research focuses on technology for development. He is particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of designing energy systems for low carbon societies.
A native of Indonesia, Joni Jupesta holds a Bachelor of Gas and Petrochemical Engineering from the University of Indonesia (Indonesia), a Master of Science degree in Quality, Safety and Environment from the University of Magdeburg (Germany), a Master of Business Administration degree from the Hochschule Esslingen (Germany) and a PhD degree from the Department of Management Science and Technology, Tohoku University (Japan). His MBA thesis focused on bioenergy industries, and was written in collaboration with FESTO AG, an automation company in Germany.
He conducted his PhD in the Tohoku University’s International Doctoral Program in Engineering, Information Sciences and Environmental Studies with financial support from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho).
His PhD research focused on energy systems for analyzing the introduction of biofuels into Indonesia’s transportation sector from energy, economics and environmental perspectives. During his PhD, he published his research work in several peer-reviewed journals such as the Science China Technological Sciences, Sustainability and Applied Energy and has articles forthcoming in Energy Policy and Research Policy. In 2007 he worked as a Research Associate for Sustainable Energy Development at the Department of Energy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2001-2003, he worked as a quality engineer in a petrochemical company in Indonesia.
This seminar will be held under Chatham House rules: “when a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant may be revealed.”
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