Tuesday, May 31, 2022

2nd Energy Transition Colloquium Registration Information and Program (16-17 June 2022 Hybrid Program)

 



it is my pleasure to invite you for the June session of the 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium, which will be on Zoom. Please register separately, here for the June 16, 2022 9 AM 1 PM (EST, Washington, DC) session and here for the June 17, 2022 9 AM 1 PM (EST, Washington, DC) session. The full program in PDF is available here.

The international conference is organized by the Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration of West Virginia University, USA. The event is in collaboration with the WVU Center for Resilient Communities (CRC), the WVU Eberly College Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative on Global Challenges and Local Response Initiatives & WVU Eberly College Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative on Climate, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law and Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law, gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK, and Qatar University, Center for Law and Development (CLD), Qatar.

Information for registration follows below. 

It is my pleasure to invite you for the June session of the 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium, which will be on Zoom. Please register separately, here for the June 16,2022 9 AM 1 PM (EST, Washington, DC) session and here for the June 17, 2022 9 AM 1 PM (EST, Washington, DC) session. The full program in PDF is available here.



Register here:
https://wvu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rTAEcna6RqS9_RlkTza9ng

Welcoming

Paolo Farah,

Chair of the 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium & WVU Eberly College, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics

Bradley Wilson,

Director of the Center for Resilient Communities, WVU Eberly College, Geography

9:00 – 10:00 am

I. Facilitating the Energy Transition I: Public International Law, Trade and Climate Change

1. Larry Catá Backer, Pennsylvania State University, School of Law and School of International Affairs (USA), Facilitating the Energy Transition: A Human Right and Soft Law Perspective

2. Mahatab Uddin, University of Guelph (Canada) and University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Law, Sustainability, and Justice (Denmark), Trade and Climate Change for the Promotion of Clean Energy Technologies

3. Francesco Adamo, University of Eastern Piedmont, Geoprogress - NPO (Italy), Funds for Energy Transition in the Environmentally Creditors Countries

10:00 – 10:30 am

Questions and Answers: Larry Backer, Mahatab Uddin, Francesco Adamo, Paolo Farah

10:30 – 10:45 am - Break

10:45 – 11:45 am

II. A Transition on the Making: The Case of Appalachian

1. Michaud Gilbert, Loyola University Chicago, School of Environmental Sustainability (USA), The Decline of the Coal Economy in Southern Ohio and the Recent Growth of the Solar Industry: Challenges and Opportunities through Public Engagement

2. Stefania Staniscia, West Virginia University, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, School of Design & Community Development, Landscape Architecture (USA), Art-based Approach to the Energy Transition: Land Mine Reclamation in West Virginia

3. Nicholas Ashford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT (USA)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

Roundtable and Cross Talk Dialogue: Larry Backer, Mahatab Uddin, Francesco Adamo, Michaud Gilbert, Stefania Staniscia, Nicholas Ashford, Paolo D. Farah
17 JUNE (9 AM - 1 PM, Washington, DC)

Register here:
https://wvu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U-He006sToqm7NNxjmMwMw

Welcoming

Paolo Farah,

Chair of the 2nd Energy Transition Colloquium & WVU Eberly College, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics

Bradley Wilson,

Director of the Center for Resilient Communities, WVU Eberly College, Geography

III. Facilitating the Energy Transition II: An International and Comparative Perspective

1. Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Qatar University, Center for Law and Development – CLD (Qatar), Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: A Legal Appraisal in the Context of the MENA Region

2. Simón Ladino Cano, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (France), Unleashing a Just Transition in Latin America: Insights for Tackling Energy Transition Obstacles in the Pacific Alliance Countries (to be confirmed)

3. Beibit Shangirbayeva, Gumiloyv Eurasian National University, Department of International Law, Law School, Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Nexus Between Extraction of Natural Resources and Political Reform: A Case of Kazakhstan

10:00 – 10:30 am

Questions and Answers: Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Simón Ladino Cano, Beibit Shangirbayeva

10:30 – 10:45 am – Break

10:45 – 11:30 am

IV. Facilitating the Energy Transition III: The EU Perspective

1. Luigimaria Riccardi, University of Pisa, Department of Political Science (Italy), Power To Gas and ‘Green’ Hydrogen in the EU: The Energy Transition Between Innovation and Fragmentation

2. Martin Svec, Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Department of Energy Law, Institute of Law and Technology, REPowerEU: EU’s Energy Transition in the Context of Russian Aggression against Ukraine

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Roundtable and Cross Talk Dialogue: Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Simón Ladino Cano, Beibit Shangirbayeva, Luigimaria Riccardi, Martin Svec, Paolo D. Farah


The recording of the April 28, 2022 event, part of the 2nd Energy Colloquium, titled TOWARD A RENEWABLE ENERGY TRANSITION IN APPALACHIA is now available on Youtube. The program of the event is available here.

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