Laurence Delina Gives Talk on Energy Futures in Asia

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, delivered a talk at the “Energy Transitions in Asia” symposium held at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) in Nanjing, China on September 23, 2016.

The talk, titled “Producing energy futures in developing Asia: towards a structured decision-making for energy transitions,” was focused on the implications of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to developing Asia. Delina outlined the various frictions that policymakers and practitioners need to navigate in order to meet the new global climate and development goals. Understanding these frictions, Delina argued, is an essential precondition for structured decision-making in accelerating energy transitions, which, he contend, is the principal modus operandi that link both climate and low-carbon development together.

Delina is leading a Pardee Center research project on the future of energy systems in developing countries.