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During the ongoing U.N. Conference on Sustainable and Development, Worldwatch's Climate and Energy team will host the invitation-only “Measuring the Renewable Future: High?level Consultation on IRENA Renewable Energy Indicators” dinner discussion at the Hotel Santa Theresa. Worldwatch’s Evan Musolino, Alexander Ochs and President Emeritus Christopher Flavin will join IRENA Director General Adnan Amin and other leading renewable energy experts in debating how to re-set the stage for harnessing the full potential of renewable energy technologies in the event of future economic development. The first section of the dinner will address the issue of key real-world, non-technical barriers to renewable energy investment, such as the existence of wrong socio-economic paradigms, subsidies favoring fossil fuel production, the lack of support policies for clean energy sources, unreliable bureaucracies and inefficient administrative hurdles, as well as the lack of available capital. The second will explore the role new indicators can play to measure progress on removing such barriers. The participants are as follows: Adnan Amin International Renewable Energy Agency Robert Bernard Microsoft Abeeku Brew-Hammond Ghana Energy Commission Alexander Carius Adelphi Aimee Christensen Christensen Global Strategies Reid Detchon United Nations Foundation Christopher Flavin Worldwatch Institute Yannick Glemarec United Nations Development Programme Martin Hiller Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership Ari Huhtala Climate & Development Knowledge Network Daniel Kammen University of California, Berkeley Mahama Kappiah Regional Center for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Michael Liebreich Bloomberg New Energy Finance Christine Lins Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century Vijay Modi Columbia University Evan Musolino Worldwatch Institute Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Sunita Narain Center for Science and Environment Alexander Ochs Worldwatch Institute Venkata Ramana Putti The World Bank Gauri Singh International Renewable Energy Agency Youba Sokona United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Leena Srivastava The Energy and Resources Institute This event is invite-only. Please direct all your questions to skumar@worldwatch.org.
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