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Session # 7 – November 24, 2010

TODAY’S TOPIC:

Concept and Contents Copyright Macademia 2010; Copyright on pictures as indicated; no unauthorized use or publication

Funding Policies (and a glance at Biopower)

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Where are we now?

Policies & BiopowerSolar PV Funding Solar

ThermalSHP & Wind

Interview


Future Challenges

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What we will cover

• A Glance at Biopower • Political Support for Renewables• International Climate Change Policy• Before COP 18: Interview with Alex Saier


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Your visiting scholar today:Your visiting scholar today:

Alexander Saier, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change


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• Typical forms and systems• Use of Biopower over milleniums• The Return with cleaner technologies• Main Types of Energy Conversion processes

11 A Glance at Biopower

Our Schedule for Today


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• National Targets• Measures and Policy Instruments used• The Debate on the advantages and disadvantages

212 Political Support for Renewables



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• The process under the Framework Convention• Tailwind for Renewable Energy Technologies• Interview with Alexander Saier, UNFCCC

3 International Climate Policy



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A Country

Before we start…

B Data

C Business

• News from the Forum, Feedback from last session


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• Large variety of forms: solid, liquid, gaseous

• In contrast to other Renewables closely linked to

industries

- farming

- agriculture

- forestry

11 A glance at Biopower


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• Generation of heat and light by burning firewood

• Traditionally based on direct combustion

• Industrialization led to replacement by fossil fuels

• Still the most dominant form of heat generation in many

developing regions

11 Milleniums of traditional use


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11 The return of Biopower

• More sophisticated applications with modern technology

• Used for transport, heat and electricity generation

• Crucial advantage: inherent energy storage


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11 Bioenergy: Environmental Impacts

• Potential impacts of Biopower- Organic particulate matter, carbon monoxide, other gases

- Negative impacts of energy crops investigated

- Importance of transport: potential negative impact on net

energy production and carbon footprint

- Use of Land and Water resources


Source: IEA, Renewables for Power Generation

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11 Bioenergy: Environmental Impacts

• Potential impacts of Biopower- Very suitable and competitive depending on region

- CO²-neutral life-cycle, possibility of closed mineral and

nitrogen cycles

- Low-investment for co-firing of existing plants


Source: IEA, Renewables for Power Generation

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12 Political Support for Renewables

• Measures to reach objectives- Tax incentives

- Quota legislation

- Feed-in tariffs

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3213 The International Process


• Many levels of action- City, region, state and national level

- European Union, ASEAN countries

- International / United Nations’, OECD’ level

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3213 The International Process


• The most prominent example: Climate Change- 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

- 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the Convention (2005 entry into force)

- Several attempts to negotiation a successor agreement with

binding absolute targets for major economies

- Failure of Copenhagen summit December 2009

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