Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: April 16, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
12th IAEE European Energy Conference “Energy Challenge and Environmental Sustainability”
September 9-12, 2012
San Giobbe Campus, Faculty of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
www.iaeeu2012.it
The 12th IAEE European Energy Conference – “Energy Challenge and Environmental Sustainability” will be hosted and organised by the AIEE – The Italian Association of Energy Economists, in cooperation with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The Conference will be held on September 9-12, 2012, in Venice, Italy at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in the San Giobbe Campus.
The geopolitical events that are changing the international context and the costs of energy supply in most of the European countries and world industrialized nations, make us believe that there will be significant changes in the energy sector during the next years.
The oil markets and the petroleum products will be characterized by high volatility and instability, with rising prices; the gas market will be more open and less tied to oil prices: the coal market, as well as the renewables market will be in strong recovery.
The nuclear accident in Fukushima has brought uncertainty about the development of nuclear power in many countries where this source was present or was being considered as a future resource, thus leading to a closure or a stand-by of many nuclear power plants. This will have two effects: the first is a greater reliance on fossil fuels for electricity production, the second is a negative impact on the environmental sustainability and on the future monitoring of the climate change on our planet.
The increasing dependence on fossil fuels, the problems of security of supply and the best solutions for mitigating climate change require urgent measures that Europe should quickly adopt.
The first plenary sessions of the 12th IAEE European Energy Conference will therefore be dedicated to the evolution of demand and to the new energy markets less dependent on major commodities. A debate will follow on how to deal with climate change through better regulation of CO2 emissions and what opportunities Europe can get from these new regulations. The last sessions of the Conference will deal with energy security in a geopolitical context that is getting more and more complex and difficult in all the main areas of the world.
Besides these main topics the 12th IAEE Conference will also discuss all the issues related to the environmental change, its new perspectives and the broad spectrum of energy economics topics in the many concurrent sessions organized.
The deadline for abstract submissions is postponed to April 16, so please submit your abstract at the following link http://www.iaeeu2012.it/pages/abstract.html. The abstract may be up to two pages in length and should include: (1) overview (2) methods (3) results (4) conclusions. A sample abstract may be found by visiting the conference website.
The high-level program committee, headed by professor Carlo Carraro, President of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, will confirm paper acceptance by May 22. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will need to submit their full-length paper by July 1, for the conference on-line proceedings.
Learn more about the conference by visiting http://www.iaeeu2012.it.
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