Palestra Global Energy Assessment
12 junho 2013

Palestrante Nebojsa Nakicenovik,
Comentários de Jose Goldemberg, IEE/USP

The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) is the culmination of a multi-year initiative to assess the global energy challenges of our rapidly changing world. It identifies the urgent need for a sustained and comprehensive strategy to resolve the issues facing sustainable development, including poverty eradication, climate change mitigation, health, energy security, and energy access. Implementation of this strategy relies on strong commitments from policy-and decision-makers to achieve a transformation on of the global energy system.

The GEA envisions energy systems which meet the multiple objectives required for a sustainable future, including: sustained economic growth; expanded access to modern energy services for poor and rural populations; alleviation of local, regional, and global environmental and health impacts; securing energy and fuels supplies; as well as the necessary investments to do so.

The GEA’s unique approach involves broad and integrated analyses to identify comprehensive solutions to global energy challenges. The GEA identifies the major energy challenges and evaluates the energy resources and technological options available to build sustainable energy systems and combines these components to create systems that enable a variety of sustainable futures. Finally, the policies and investments needed to make these future systems a reality are outlined.

The GEA is unprecedented in its ambition, complexity and scope and brings together diverse analytical perspectives from multiple disciplines and regions to develop new knowledge and understanding of energy challenges. Involving more than 300 international energy experts and additional 200 independent reviewers, GEA is an invaluable resource for energy specialists in all sectors as well as policymakers, development economists, and practitioners in international organizations and national governments.

The complete Global Energy Assessment is available from Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781 10700 5198 hardback – ISBN 9780 52118 2935 paperback).

Professor Nakicenovic is member of the United Nations Secretary for Energy for All; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Governmment on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change; Member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) Committee of Scientific Planning and Review, and Member of the Global Carbon Project; Member of the Mitigation Board of the Global Network for Climate Solutions (GNCS) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University; Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Steering Committee of the Australian Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report (APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessment; Lead Author of Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; and Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology.

Professor Nakicenovic holds bachelors and masters degrees in  economic and computer science from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his Ph.D. He also holds Honoris Causa PhD degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Nakicenovic’s research interests are the long-term patterns of technological change, economic development and response to climate change and, in particular, the evolution of energy, mobility, and information and communication technologies.

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