ISS / HBS Panel Discussion: Dirty Energy in a Time of Crisis: A Sustainable Solution for South Africa?

Date: 2008-06-17 to Invalid date

ISS / HBS Panel Discussion: Dirty Energy in a Time of Crisis: A Sustainable Solution for South Africa?
Cape Town, 17 June 2008

 

Presented by the ISS Corruption and Governance Programme and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung

 

Chair: Trusha Reddy, Institute for Security Studies. Reddy is a researcher in the Corruption and Governance Programme focusing on Climate Change. She has published widely on carbon trading and her edited report on the Governance of Carbon Trading Projects will be released later this year.

 

Panellists:

• South Africa’s energy crisis in context: Have our policies let us down a dirty path? Prof Patrick Bond, Director: Centre for Civil Society. Bond, a political economist, is research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies where he directs the Centre for the Civil Society. Patrick’s recent authored and edited books include Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (UKZN Press and Rozenberg Publishers, 2008.)
• Compromising climate change targets by using dirty energy? Peet du Plooy, Trade and Investment Advisor (South Africa): WWF. Du Plooy is a mechanical engineer turned sustainability activist. After six years at Eskom`s R&D division, he joined WWF`s Trade and Investment Programme in 2004. His passions are environmental economics, solar power, electric vehicles, "computers" and group decision support.
• Renewable energy: Are we only paying lip service? Saliem Fakir: Senior lecturer, Department of Public Administration and Planning: University of Stellenbosch. Fakir teaches renewable energy policy and financing of renewable energy projects. He is also associate director of the Center for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at the University of Stellenbosch.

 

** Launch of latest issue of HBS publication, Perspectives on the energy crisis (Both Reddy and Fakir have contributed pieces to this issue). Dr Antonie Katharina Nord, Regional Director: Heinrich Böll Stiftung

 

Venue: Cape Town Book Fair (Room 1.42)
Date: 17 June 2008
Time: 12h00 limited seating

 

Contact: Natashia Emmett, ISS Cape Town Office; Tel: (021) 461 7211; emailL [email protected]

 

This event is made possible by the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy