Environmental and Energy Studies

Environmental Studies: Environmental policy, governance and management. Environmental justice. Environment and security. Sustainable development. Climate change. Environment, markets and democracy. Environment and livelihoods
Energy Studies: Sustainable energy policies and practices including on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Energy governance at the national and global level. Energy security. Future energy scenarios.

Chinese Oil Investment in Africa: Very Different or More of the Same?

Date: 
Tuesday, 17 March, 2009 - 17:30 - 18:30
Event type: 
Lecture

Progress report on the establishment of the National Ecological Network in Hungary

Progress report on the establishment of the National Ecological Network in Hungary, Edited by Rozália Érdi. Budapest: National Authority for Nature Protection, Ministry for Environment , 2002.
Unit: 
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Academic rank: 
Professor
Position: 
Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies (3CSEP)
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP)

Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest):  Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.

Ruben Mnatsakanian

Academic rank: 
Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

Global Energy Assessment

Project status: 
Completed
Duration: 
Jan, 2008 - May, 2012
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) is a major initiative established by IIASA in late 2005 to help decision makers address the challenges of providing energy services for sustainable development, whilst ameliorating existing and emerging threats associated with: security of supply; access to modern forms of energy for development and poverty alleviation; local, regional and global environmental impacts; and securing sufficient investment.

Aleksandra Novikova

Position: 
Senior Analyst
Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG)

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany; Lead Author of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2007; Lead Analyst of the forthcoming Global Energy Assessment (GEA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Alexios Antypas

Academic rank: 
Associate Professor
Position: 
Director, Center for Environment and Security
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

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