Energy Events
Urban Transport Development in China - Trends and Challenges
November 30, 2006 // 8:00am — 10:00am
China Environment Forum
Lee Schipper and Wei-Shiuen Ng from EMBARQ at the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport, and transportation specialist Graham Smith examine China's current motorization trends and their consequences.
Report Launch: The World's Water 2006-2007
November 16, 2006 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Environmental Change and Security Program
Launching the fifth edition of the biennial report The World's Water, Peter Gleick provides an updated analysis on water, and the political, economic, technological, and scientific issues associated with it.
Dire Strait? Energy Security in the Strait of Malacca
November 14, 2006 // 2:30pm — 4:30pm
Asia Program
Foreign Policy magazine recently designated the Strait of Malacca as one of the world's five top global chokepoints. This narrow waterway, which divides Indonesia's Sumatra Island and western Malaysia, is a hub of global trade, including large percentages of Northeast Asia's oil and liquid natural gas. There is concern, however, that piracy and terrorism may jeopardize the safe transport of these energy needs.
The Politics of Energy in Latin America
October 23, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Latin American Program
A panel of experts looks at the nationalization of hydrocarbons in Bolivia, Venezuela's use of "oil diplomacy" in the hemisphere, the development of the Camisea natural gas pipeline in Peru, and increased concern over the security of U.S. energy supplies. All of these issues serve to underscore the intensely political aspects of energy relations in Latin America.
Security and Assurance of the North American Energy System
October 13, 2006 // 8:30am — 10:30am
Canada Institute
This program highlighted efforts to assuring the capacity to withstand disruptions to the shared U.S. and Canadian energy system, as well as public and private sector cooperation toward this end.
Security and Assurance of the North American Energy System
October 12, 2006 // 1:30pm — 3:30pm
Canada Institute
This program highlighted efforts to assuring the capacity to withstand disruptions to the shared U.S. and Canadian energy system, as well as public and private sector cooperation toward this end.
Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti
August 02, 2006 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A Stakeholder Workshop to Discuss Findings and Recommendations with USAID's Technical Assessment Team
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air in Guizhou Province: Promoting Environmental Health in Rural China
June 13, 2006 // 9:00am — 11:00am
China Environment Forum
The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 to address the increased environmental health risk faced by billons of people across the developing world who burn traditional biomass fuels and coal indoors for cooking and heating.
Reception: Global Environment Change and Human Security
May 23, 2006 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Researchers from the GECHS network will be on hand to discuss the ways in which diverse social and environmental processes combine to affect human well-being, including people's health, economic opportunities, and political freedoms.
Climate Change Politics in North America (Part Two)
May 19, 2006 // 9:00am — 2:00pm
Canada Institute
The Wilson Center's Canada Institute and Environmental Change and Security Program host a two-day conference in partnership with the University of New Hampshire to examine the rapidly evolving North American debate on climate change politics.