to discuss the visions for and activities related to overcoming and coping with global warming. A main issue is energy, where consumption of oil, gas and coal is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions.
About / Programme
The workshop will be held in Trondheim. It will be organised as a mix of plenary and group sessions.
PROGRAMME: TOWARDS POST CARBON SOCIETIES
WORKSHOP IN TRONDHEIM SEPTEMBER 4-5, 2008
Venue: Sverresborg Folk Museum
Thursday September 4th
0900 Registration
1000 Opening
1015 Towards post carbon societies? (Knut H. Sørensen, NTNU)
1145 Lunch
Section I: Energy inefficiencies
1245 The Redistribution of Domestic Energy Sensibilities (Thomas Berker, NTNU)
1315 Paradoxes of design: Acting with technology, energy and aesthetics in a warm bathroom (Helen Jøsok Gansmo, NTNU)
Section II: Getting rid of carbon?
1345 Scrutinizing the promise of a quick, smooth transition to CCS abatement (Nils Markusson, University of Edinburgh)
1415 Coffee
1445 Storage and capture of CO2 – the Norwegian Moon Landing? (Robert Næss, NTNU)
1515 Carbon realists or post carbon idealists? How Norwegian Hydrogen scientists enact post carbon strategies (Siri Hall Arnøy, NTNU)
1600 Visit to the museum – pre-carbon living?
1700 End
1900 Dinner
Friday September 5th
0900 Keynote II: Committed to Carbon? The U.S. Situation (Naomi Oreskes, University of California – San Diego)
Section III: Policy transitions and innovation issues
1000 Energy policy in the Nordic countries (Antje Klitkou, Trond Einar Pedersen and Lisa Scordato, Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education)
1030 Coffee
1045 ‘Clean energy’ in Finland: Nuclear power as protection of the environment (Hannah Strauss, University of Oulu)
1115 Socio-technical transition processes: a real options based reasoning (Arman Avadikyan and Patrick Llerena, Université Lois Pasteur)
1145 Lunch
1245 Keynote III: To hot to handle? The appropriation of the climate change problem and the implications on energy use in everyday life (Marianne Ryghaug, NTNU)
Section IV: Applying climate research knowledge
1345 Cleaning climate knowledge. How experts handle the science – policy relation in the climate science area (Sunniva E. Tøsse, NTNU)
1415 Translating climate science in the road sector (Jøran Solli, NTNU)
1445 Coffee
Section V: Enacting change
1500 Stumbling blocks on ‘the Hydrogen road’ in Norway (Asbjørn Kårstein, NTNU)
1530 Learning by inventing? (Jostein Vik, Centre for rural research, and Amund Vik)
1600 Concluding remarks: Next steps?
1630 End