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As one can see from the recent cover of Time magazine entitled “The truth about oil”, fossil energy is again the focus of political and public debate.
Where will oil prices go this year and beyond? How will shale gas affect energy demand and price? Have we reached the point of peak production or entering an era of a new abundance? Will the US presidential elections and tensions with Iran prompt the release of IEA emergency reserves? What impact are policies to promote efficiency and renewable energy having?
These and other aspects of global oil and gas markets will be the subject of this year’s ASPO 10 conference, which will bring together scientists, geologists, stakeholders, business representatives, NGOs and public authorities to discuss the challenges to our future of our energy system.
As host of ASPO 10, recently founded ASPO Austria is honoured to invite you to join other experts to the 10th International ASPO Conference, to be held in Vienna from May 30 to June 1 2012. The conference will take place in Palais Niederösterreich, a historic building in the Vienna´s inner city.
ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, will take the opportunity to look back at more than ten years intense discussion and analysis on major developments of fossil fuel depletion, its consequences and future scenarios. The Vienna conference will provide updated information, discussion and reflection on the following topics:
- Lessons learned from the peak oil debate
- The role of non-conventional fossil energy and shale gas perspectives
- Energy security and the geopolitical dimensions of fossil fuel availability
- Economic consequences of peak oil and the future costs of oil & gas
- Investing in a secure and sustainable energy future
- The sustainable use of resources and climate change
- Peak oil and urban design
- Renewable energy and storage perspectives
- Strategy options: resilience and transformation
- Political perspectives
Please find our program brochure on
http://www.aspo2012.at/program
Enabling restorative growth
Introduction
The production of key resources, such as clean water, clean energy and a sustainable production of food represents some of our time’s greatest challenges. The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution that provides a holistic approach to tackle these challenges.
The Sahara Forest Project has a vision of creating re-vegetation and green jobs through profitable production of food, water, clean electricity and biomass in desert areas. This is done by combining already existing and proven environmental technologies, such as evaporation of seawater to create cooling and distilled fresh water (i.e. in a saltwater based greenhouse) and solar thermal technologies. In this way The Sahara Forest Project is designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and energy.
Press release 27.02.2012: Fertilizer companies as catalysts for greening the desert
The Sahara Forest Project AS today signed a cooperation agreement for building a Pilot Plant in Qatar together with Yara International ASA and the Qatar Fertiliser Company, Qafco.
De wereld verandert in snel tempo en de vraag naar innovatieve oplossingen en slimme toepassingen voor een duurzame samenleving is dringend. ECN onderschrijft deze noodzaak van duurzame verandering en zet een nieuwe koers in. In dit strategieplan voor de periode 2012 – 2015 wordt deze koerswijziging beargumenteerd en uiteengezet.