Thursday Seminar Summary
Speaker: Ms. Shebonti Roy Dadwal, 4 February 2010
The West Asian region has become synonymous with energy resources whose usage is intrinsically linked with the issue of climate change. Countries like Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and Bahrain subscribe to green friendly projects like producing renewable energy. The politics of climate change in the aftermath of Copenhagen summit has affected the energy-rich and energy-dependence states of West Asia at two levels, domestic and international. Domestically, states such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran have shown an inclination towards renewable energy sources to meet the domestic demands of electricity. This serves two purposes; firstly, it helps these states to reduce their carbon emissions and secondly it helps them to divert higher percentage of their petroleum production for exports and revenue generation to support their welfare programmes. Internationally, these states are increasingly dependent on the high end technology and as the premium on conventional production increase due to politics of climate change these countries would have to seek international collaboration for higher technology. Additionally these states are also keen to regulate petroleum prices in such a way that other energy options do not become competitive in the market.
Summary by Ayem Tsupokyemla and Anjani Kumar Singh
Speaker: Ms. Shebonti Roy Dadwal, 4 February 2010
The West Asian region has become synonymous with energy resources whose usage is intrinsically linked with the issue of climate change. Countries like Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and Bahrain subscribe to green friendly projects like producing renewable energy. The politics of climate change in the aftermath of Copenhagen summit has affected the energy-rich and energy-dependence states of West Asia at two levels, domestic and international. Domestically, states such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran have shown an inclination towards renewable energy sources to meet the domestic demands of electricity. This serves two purposes; firstly, it helps these states to reduce their carbon emissions and secondly it helps them to divert higher percentage of their petroleum production for exports and revenue generation to support their welfare programmes. Internationally, these states are increasingly dependent on the high end technology and as the premium on conventional production increase due to politics of climate change these countries would have to seek international collaboration for higher technology. Additionally these states are also keen to regulate petroleum prices in such a way that other energy options do not become competitive in the market.
Summary by Ayem Tsupokyemla and Anjani Kumar Singh
The presentation by Ms.Shebonti Roy Dadwal was enlightening as far as the energy aspect of the topic was concerned though i feel she could have spoken more about the whole issue of climate change and its impact on the region. However, i fell she could have answered the quires thrown at her in a straight forward manner instead of resorting to 'yes and no' technique.
ReplyDeleteThe presentation was indeed good but i was expecting more on the issue of climate change and the effect of massive exploitation of natural resources on the region's ecology.
ReplyDeletePresentation was quite good and well arranged in terms of data and all that. It also provide of with lot of new information regarding the energy resources in this region. My own observation is one missing message was the effect of energy exploration specially which effect climate in the entire region and how to address this important challenge, another thing is that to deal with climate change and all any blue print of plan is available for this region.
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