This seminar will examine the effectiveness of international renewable energy programs. Growing concerns about climate change and national security, along with increased competition for fossil fuels, have spurred greater worldwide interest in renewable sources of energy.
A dynamic panel of speakers will address specific international renewable initiatives, including:
- the incentives used to promote adoption and use of renewable energy
- the barriers encountered during the adoption of renewable energy sources.
Speakers will have 15-20 minutes to present their opinions followed by a moderated question and answer session.
No report or summary will be produced from this seminar.
Featured Speakers: (Bios below)
Joachim Luther
Professor Emeritus
Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy
Freiburg, Germany
Alan S. Miller
Global Environment Facility Coordinator and Team Leader Climate Change
International Finance Corporation
Washington, D.C.
Public Contact:
Priya Sreedharan, Science & Technology Policy Fellow, psreedharan@nas.edu or 202 334-2711.
Media Contact: Office of News and Public Information, 202.334.2138
JOACHIM LUTHER has over thirty years of experience in physics and renewable energy development. He has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Hanover. From 1974 to 1993 he taught at the University of Oldenburg as professor for applied physics, where his main research topics were oceanographic laser remote sensing and the physics of renewable energy sources. In 1992 he became member of the board of directors of the International Solar Energy Society. From 1993 until 2006 he served as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and professor for solid state physics and solar energy at the University of Freiburg. Between 1997 and 2002 he was president of the European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centers. Professor Luther was a member of the advisory council to the German Government on Global Change and joined the expert commission of the German Government on Science and Innovation in 2007.
ALAN S. MILLER has been influential in both domestic and international energy and environmental issues for more than thirty years. He has a BA degree from Cornell University, and JD and MPP degrees both from the University of Michigan. In 1989 he created the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland, the first university program focused on human dimensions of global environmental issues, and directed this center until 1997. He helped create the Renewable Energy Policy Project and became its first executive director, a position he served from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Miller joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2003. At the IFC, Mr. Miller works with the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group as the Global Environmental Facility Coordinator and Team Leader for Climate Change at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Earlier in his career, Mr. Miller was a staff member of the World Resources Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. He coauthored the books Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy and Green Gold.
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