An International Symposium on Urban Energy and Carbon Management: Challenges for Science and Policy and International Workshop on Urban Energy and Carbon Modeling will be held on 4-6 February 2008 at the AIT Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand
The event is organized by the Global Carbon Project (GCP), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan.
The goals of the Symposium are:
- To highlight the importance of urban energy and carbon in solving global carbon problems
- To present and discuss a state-of-art knowledge from the scientific perspective
- To share policy development trends in mega-cities in relation to energy and carbon management and critical research areas for which urban decision-makers are seeking guidance from science
- To assess the scale of disconnect between science and the needs for decisions makers in urban energy and carbon management area and to explore how to bridge such disconnects.
The goals of the Workshop are:
- To develop an international urban energy and carbon modeling forum to create and share knowledge and expertise on modeling approaches, models, modelers, and their results
- To encourage the development of a comprehensive urban model that can assess alternate urban development pathways and urban practices in an integrated manner with urban energy and carbon as key (but not exclusive) components
- To encourage and conduct cross-city comparative case studies on urban carbon management
- To encourage to create and share urban scale data following a common template to increase compatibility and accessibility
This event is built upon the outcomes and achievements of the following past activities:
- International Conference on Carbon Management at Urban and Regional Levels: Connecting Development Decisions with Global Issues, 4-8 September 2006, Mexico City, Mexico.
- International Workshop on Urbanization, Development Pathways, and Carbon Implications, 28-30 March, 2007, Tsukuba, Japan.
- Third Annual Workshop of the Asia Energy Environment Modeling Forum (AEEMF) on How to Model Low Carbon Economy in Asia, 30-31 May, 2007, Beijing, China.
- Carbon Management in Cities: Gaps in Policy Discussions and Scientific Understanding, Official side-event at UNFCCC COP-13, December 6, 2007, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Bali.
Carbon Neutral Event
This will be a Carbon Neutral Event. All emissions related to the event such as travel and accommodation of participants and speakers will be offset by purchasing high quality carbon credits.
Participation
- The symposium is “open” but prior registration is necessary owing to space limitation on “first come first serve” basis. Please write to anil.raut@nies.go.jp for registration.
- The workshop participation is “by invitation” only.
Contact
Shobhakar Dhakal, Global Carbon Project
Ram M. Shrestha (ram@ait.ac.th), Asian Institute of Technology