Categoria Evento: Conferences and Seminars

The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is an informal network of
analysts actively working on international energy issues. The IEW
provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare quantitative
energy projections and to understand the reasons for diverging views of
future developments. The annual meetings typically include three
plenary sessions and approximately 100 presentations in parallel
sessions focused on a wide array of topics, including energy supply and
price forecasts, energy efficiency, climate change, renewable energy,
and the interface of energy, environmental, and economic issues. The
original idea to establish this international network was introduced by
the late Alan Manne, one of the founding fathers of energy economics
and a long-time professor at Stanford University, who organized the
first IEW in December 1981.

The motivation for the first IEW meeting in December 1981 was partly
inspired by the Stanford-based Energy Modelling Forum (EMF). One of the
EMF’s functions is to compare energy projections. Modelling teams
closely interact to apply their models to the same topic and using a
largely standardized set of assumptions. This type of close cooperation
was beyond the reach of this newly established network that aimed at
analyzing international energy studies. The IEW has therefore taken the
practical approach and asks for the results first and later worries
about the method that led to them without attempting to provide
feedback.

The workshop is structured with one plenary session per day, each one
hosting two key-note speeches of international experts of the research
field. Then, three parallel sessions will be held at each time slot
with 3 or 4 presentations each. The aim is to select about 85 papers
out of the applications. Furthermore, a welcome cocktail and a social
dinner will be organized respectively on June 17th and June 18th.
Coffee breaks and lunches will be provided within the workshop.

Steering Committee

Joe Aldy, Resources for the Future, and Leo Schrattenholzer (Spokesperson), IEW Co-directors
Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency – alternate: Laura Cozzi
Carlo Carraro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, University of Venice, Vice Chair, IPCC Working Group III
Alison Hughes, Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
Shunsuke Mori, Tokyo University of Science
Holger Rogner, International Atomic Energy Agency – alternates: Mark Howells and Ferenc Toth
Giancarlo Tosato, Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme
David Victor, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, Stanford University
John Weyant, Energy Modeling Forum

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The goal of keeping climate change to manageable levels (e.g. limiting
global average temperature increase to less than 2°-3°C compared to
pre-industrial levels) cannot be achieved by a single country. Global
action and cooperation are necessary, yet some countries, in both the
developed and developing world, have been reluctant to adopt binding
emission reduction commitments. Limited participation in climate change
policy agreements vitiates the effectiveness of actions taken by
countries implementing emission reductions, and it magnifies the global
costs of climate stabilization. Starting from the current debate on the
design of mechanisms to enhance participation in climate control
cooperative efforts, this workshop aims to bring a broad audience of
selected international researchers working in this field, albeit from
different perspectives. A diversity of viewpoints will promote the
exchange of recent research and may lead to concrete policy proposals,
as well as opportunities for subsequent collaboration.

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The aim of this workshop is to gather leading researchers actively
engaged in the study of the economics of adaptation to climate change
to critically review the methodologies used in their analysis and to
evaluate further developments or new approaches that would make it
possible to address questions that still remain unanswered. Particular
emphasis will be given to the long/short term and local/economy-wide
dimensions of adaptation strategies and to new methodologies that are
capable of addressing the shortcomings of the first generation of
studies on adaptation.

This two-days workshop will be structured into four sessions with ample
time for presentation (45 min) and discussion (30 min). Invited
speakers will present recent advancements in their field of research
and will critically assess shortcomings and future developments. A wide
range of methods will be explored to provide a wide overview of the
frontiers of the discipline.

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The Books at San Giorgio series continues in the Spring season with the presentation of the latest publications from the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

The meetings will be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, where leading experts of different subjects will present to the public, together with authors and editors, the latest volumes edited by the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

On 17 March the latest issue of Studi Veneziani will be presented to mark fifty years of the review edited by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society.

Next up, on 24 March the featured book will be Tiepolo. Edited by Giuseppe Pavanello, the work is a collection of writings by Adriano Mariuz on Giandomenico and Giambattista Tiepolo. This is the first title in a series of volumes dedicated to “Writings by Historians of Veneto Art”, promoted in collaboration with the Veneto Region.

Lastly, on 31 March the book Antologia della critica goldoniana e gozziana (“Anthology of critical writings on Goldoni and Gozzi”) by Michele Bordin and Anna Scannapieco will be launched. The book is published in the Cini series “Historic Present”, and was promoted by the Veneto Region as part of the publishing initiatives to celebrate the third centenary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni and the second centenary of the death of Carlo Gozzi.

The Fourth World Conference on The Future of Science will explore a theme that brings science to the centre of social debate: Food and Water for Life. The aim is to offer a global vision about issues as water scarcity, development of a sustainable agriculture, food safety, food and health, improvements related to scientific and technological development and the economic, political and ethical involvements.
850 million people in the world suffer from hunger and over a billion have no safe drinking water. What can science do for them? Leading international experts will meet in Venice to illustrate how
science and technology can help solve a problem affecting everyone. The event is intended for scientists, economists, politicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, students and anyone wishing to explore these issues in depth.

To attend the conference, please enrol at www.thefutureofscience.org.

On Friday, May 23 at 9.30 will take place, at Scuola Grande S.Giovanni Evengelista, a conference about the next scenarios of work, social inclusion and development.
This conference will take to an end the Equal Program, supported by the European Union.
Is it possible to figure out the activities and the products of this program on www.equalveneto.it

Through the specially created Committee for the Celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the death of the Rosalba Carriera (1757-2007), the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the Veneto Region wish to commemorate this major 18th-century Venetian painter throughout 2007. Born in Venice in 1673, Rosalba Carriera also died in the city in 1757.
Undoubtedly a leading European 18th-century artist, Rosalba Carriera is surely the greatest female painter of all time. Her portraits of leading figures from Venetian and European society were extraordinarily acute. She also made a great contribution to French portrait painting and was an unrivalled interpreter of the ideals of grace and elegance in an age when the “happy life” entered the collective imagination and was identified with the ancien régime.
Organised by the Institute of Art History, the conference has been held ahead of the exhibition dedicated to the great painter planned for autumn 2007. The aim is to update studies on Rosalba Carriera, and to tackle themes such as the position of a female painter in 18th-century Europe. The conference is opened by the writer Kuki Gallmann who speak on the topic of “A woman who painted other women”.

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
26 – 28 April 2007

Information
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Island of San Giorgio Maggiore – 30124 Venice
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