International Seminar on Energy and Resource Productivity

Heads up:

International Seminar on Energy and Resource Productivity
Engineering and Science Building (ESB), Room 1001

November 17-18
sign up by this Monday, November 10

http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/events/registration_form_students.htm

Presented by the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, the International panel for Sustainable Resource Management, and the Institute for Energy Efficiency


Topics include:
- Why developing countries need dramatic increases of energy and resource productivity
- Frontiers of energy efficiency research
- Biofuels
- Measuring environmental impacts: Carbon footprints and Material Flow Analysis
- Business strategies to reduce environmental impacts
- Economic instruments to improve energy efficiency and resource productivity
- Government policies to improve energy efficiency and resource productivity