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EVENT: ENERGY DAY workshop within EUSEW 2016
http://eusew.eu/energy-days/resource-constrained-world-think-exergy-not-energy-%E2%80%93science-europe-workshop
DATE: Thursday 16 June 2016
TIME: 9:00-14:00 including registration and lunch
LOCATION: Science Europe, Rue de la Science 14, B-1040, Brussels
http://www.scienceeurope.org/contact
TITLE: In a resource constrained world: think Exergy not Energy – a Science Europe Workshop
DESCRIPTION: When we think about energy, we consider it in terms of quantity. However, in a resource
constrained world, energy and in particular its efficiency, must also be appreciated from the point of
view of quality, which is its ability to do work. In order to include the quality and not just the quantity
of energy, we need to measure ‘exergy'. Exergy can be applied for individual processes, for industries,
and for whole national economies. Exergy provides a firm basis from which to judge the effect of policy
measures taken towards energy, resource and climate efficiency. In the future, consumers could be
informed about products and services in terms of their exergy destruction footprints in the same way
as carbon emissions.
In the wake of the historic Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015 resulting in an
agreement to bridge between today's policies and climate-neutrality before the end of the century,
Science Europe’s Scientific Advisors compliment their recent Opinion Paper “A Common Scale for Our
Common
Future:
Exergy,
a
Thermodynamic
Metric
for
Energy”
http://www.scienceeurope.org/uploads/PublicDocumentsAndSpeeches/SCsPublicDocs/Exergy_Pape
r_fin_web.pdf with a workshop “In a resource constrained world: think Exergy not Energy” during the
EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) programme.
Science Europe invites Energy experts, policy-makers, stakeholders and citizens to this workshop
where energy and natural resources are considered on the basis of exergy. On the same occasion, a
publication on these issues will be released by Science Europe’s Scientific Advisors.
Programme
09:00-09:30
Registration & coffee
09:30-09:40
Welcome to Science Europe’s Energy Day
Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, Research Affairs at Science Europe
09:40-10:00 The importance of scientific evidence for policy-making in the Energy Union
Paul Rübig, MEP & Chair of the STOA (Science and Technology Options Assessment) Panel
10:00-10:10 A Common Scale for Our Common Future: Exergy, a Thermodynamic Metric for Energy
Caroline Whelan, Research Affairs at Science Europe
10:30-10:50 Movie with short introduction Thanatia: The Destiny of the Earth's Mineral Resources,
A Thermodynamic Cradle-to-Cradle Assessment
Antonio Valero Capilla, Director University of Zaragoza CIRCE Mixed University Research Institute
10:50-11:10 Coffee
11:10-11:30 Energy analysis 2.0: how exergy provides new global insights into GDP, energy use and
climate policy
Paul Brockway, Researcher at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
11:30-11:50 Exergy-Based Indicators or how to integrate exergy into policy, law and practice
Jo Dewulf, Professor at the Environmental and Clean Technology, Ghent University
11:50-12:10
Implementing Science into Energy Policy (provisional title)
JRC, to be confirmed
12:10-12:30 Sharing science with stakeholders lessons: from climate change
Thomas Stocker, IPCC (International Panel on Climate change), Working Group I, Climate Change 2013:
The Physical Science Basis & University of Bern, Switzerland
12:30-12:40 An International Exergy Panel & Exergy Footprint to safeguard our “Common Future”
Signe Kjelstrup, Department of chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
12:40-13:00 Panel Discussion: Recommendations for next steps
Moderator Susanne Siebentritt, Faculty of Science, technology & Communication, University of
Luxembourg
13:00-13:10 Closing Remarks from Amanda Crowfoot, Director, Science Europe
13:10-14:00
Buffet lunch for all participants at Science Europe