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Renewable Energy Leadership Course - April 6th – 9th, 2008

This is the second leadership course on renewable energy to be conducted by the United Nations University – International leadership Institute. This special course will target fifty young professionals mainly from developing countries to develop their leadership skills and to increase their knowledge on renewable energy and the urgent need for using such energy in the near future. This course will also focus on ways of conserving current traditional energy supplies.

Renewable energy is defined as the effective use of natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, hydroelectricity/micro hydro, biomass and biofuels for transportation.

About 13 percent of the world primary energy is produced from renewable energy, with most of from traditional biomass, like wood-burning. Hydropower is the next largest renewable source, providing 2-3%, and modern technologies like geothermal, wind, solar, and marine energy together produce less than 1% of total world energy demand. The technical potential for their use is very large, exceeding all other readily available sources Renewable energy technologies are sometimes criticized for being unreliable or unsightly, yet the market is growing for many forms of renewable energy.

While there are many large-scale renewable energy projects, renewable technologies are also suited to small off-grid applications, sometimes in rural and remote areas, where energy is often crucial in human development.

Climate change concerns coupled with high oil prices, peak oil and increasing government support are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization. European Union Leaders reached agreement in principle in March 2007 that 20 percent of the bloc's energy should be produced from renewable fuels by 2020, as part of its drive to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, blamed in part for global warming.

Objectives

The objective of this leadership course is to create awareness and deeper understanding of renewable energy as a main source of future energy, and to introduce the concept of using renewable energy specially with the sharp rise of the traditional energy sources and the fact that such traditional sources are coming to an end.

This four day participative and interactive course on renewable energy will be held from 6th -9th of April 2008 in the building of UNU-ILI in Amman, Jordan, consisting of a 3-day conference and 1-day fild visit. Distinguished faculty and fifty participants and researchers will be invited from across the world with high representation from developing countries.

The following issues will be discussed:

• Youth leadership and renewable energy – World future energy and policy.
• Renewable energy & Climate change. Carbon Management.
• Solar and wind energy.
• The Abu Dhabi renewable energy initiative – Masdar.
• Energy Audits and conservation.
• Gender & Renewable energy.
• Other types of renewable energy (Geothermal, fuel cells, ocean power, biomass )
• Green Building and Sustainable architecture for the Future.

Eligibility: Participants should be 20 to 35 years of age and be actively working or soon to be working in the filed of renewable energy, environment or related filed, university students are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: Applications can be found at our website www.la.unu.edu, must be received by March 15th ,2008 and sent to nimri@la.unu.edu indicating in the Subject line “ Application” .

Fees: There is a course fee of $150. A limited number of scholarships, to cover travel and accommodation will be offered to those from developing countries.

Questions regarding the application or the conference should be sent to nimri@la.unu.edu

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