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São Paulo, Brasil
El objetivo del curso es colaborar en la formación de recursos humanos para el desarrollo de proyectos de mejora en la eficiencia para la generación de la energía a partir de biomasa en las empresas, en particular en el sector azúcar/alcohol, papel/celulosa, alimentos y otros, incluido los procesos de autoproducción, cogeneración y producción independiente de energía. Serán abordados aspectos técnicos, económicos, ambientales e institucionales, en particular dentro del ambiente regulatorio del sector eléctrico del país, con las oportunidades de negociaciones con el Protocolo de Kyoto.
Programa. Tecnologías para generar energía a partir de biomasa:
· Autoproducción y cooperación ; tecnologías disponibles comercialmente en el país: tecnologías en desarrollo; balances de energía, equipos; potencial de generación de excedentes; interconecciones como una red;
· Aspectos ambientales: ventajas de la biomasa como combustible para la generación de energía termoeléctrica; Protocolo de Kyoto; emisiones de contaminantes en procesos (fase agrícola e industrial); control de emisiones en calderas de biomasa;
· Aspecto económico-financiero: inversiones necesarias para la introducción de tecnologías mas eficientes; análisis económico-financiario; costo de la generación de electricidad;
· Aspectos institucional y regulatorio: la nueva legislación del sector eléctrico o relaciones con concesionarias; venta de excedentes a terceros; reglamentación de acceso a redes de transmisión y distribución.
(Fuente: Red Internet en bioenergía.)
Para más información, dirigirse a: CENBIO (correo electrónico: [email protected]).
What are the projected changes in ecosystems within the United States resulting from a climate warming caused by a doubling of the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? Which ecosystems appear to prosper and which ecosystems appear to be negatively impacted under such a climate warming? Which regions of the United States are more likely to witness dramatic ecosystem changes, with significant social and economic consequences? How much uncertainty/confidence is there in the various ecosystem model results? (Source:
H. Gyde Lund; e-mail: [email protected])
For more information, please contact: Dr Anthony D. Socci, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, 400 Virginia Ave. SW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20024, USA.
Fax: (+1) 202 488 8681;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.usgcrp.gov
Mr L.S. Botero, Coordinator, Forest Programmes Coordination and Information Unit (FODA) of FAO's Forestry Department, travelled to Indianapolis to attend the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBSTA/UNFCCC) Workshop on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry. The workshop was attended by 118 experts, including experts from 42 countries and from the following international governmental and non-governmental organizations: IFF Secretariat, UNDP, UNEP, CIFOR, WRI, IUCN, WWF, Greenpeace, Environment/Defense Fund, and other NGOs. The agenda included two main aspects:
· A progress report on the preparation of the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LUCF).
· Presentations from experts nominated by Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. During the afternoon of the second day and the morning of the third day there were two working groups: one dealing with forestry issues and the other with agricultural issues of Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol (Additional Human-induced Activities). In addition to papers made available by some of the experts, a document prepared by SBSTA was made available with the submission from Parties on Article 3.3 and 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol, dealing mainly with methodological issues.
The presentations indicated that significant progress had been made in the preparation of the first draft of the report, which was not made available since a number of gaps and cross-chapter issues had to be completed and it was to be discussed the same week at a meeting of lead authors in Washington. The schedule for the preparation of the report is very rigid and does not allow any flexibility for delays in the review of drafts by experts reviewing individual chapters or sections and by governments. The list of reviewers is being drawn up and suggestions were invited.
Subsequent to the discussion in SBSTA in June 2000, the IPCC might have to work on revised IPCC guidelines for reporting, incorporating those aspects related to Articles 3.3 and 3.4 which may be agreed by Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
It should be noted that the meetings of lead authors are scheduled as follows: 28-30 April in Washington; 23-25 August in Wageningen, the Netherlands; and 11-13 January 2000 (venue to be decided). (Source: Travel report of Mr L.S. Botero.)
For more information, please contact: Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), PO Box 260 124, D-53153 Bonn, Germany.
Fax: (+49) 228 815 1999;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.unfccc.de
This workshop was organized by the Gambian Forestry Department, in conjunction with the German Technical Agency for Cooperation (GTZ), with the close technical support of the Community Forestry Unit of FAO Forestry Department.
For more information, please contact: Mr Dominique Reeb, Gambian German Forestry Project, PO Box 504, Banjul, the Gambia.
Fax: (+220) 495 144;
e-mail: [email protected]; or
Dr Katherine Warner, FAO, Community Forestry Unit, Policy and Planning Division (FONP), Forestry Department, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy.
Fax: (+39) 06 57055514;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/ftpp/g-ws1e.htm (English);
www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/ftpp/g-ws1f.htm (French).
One of the papers presented at this meeting was Beyond Kyoto - the forest industry and climate change - a story worth telling, by Mr D.A. Barron, Senior Vice-President, Environment, Resources and Technology, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. The paper can be found at: www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/acpwp/40/Barron.htm
For more information, please contact: Mr O. Serrano, Chief, Wood and Non-Wood Products Utilization Branch, Forest Products Division, Forestry Department, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy.
Fax: (+39) 06 52255618;
e-mail: [email protected]
The aim of Sustain '99 was to bring more than 10 000 professionals together in one place for the largest world sustainable energy event ever seen. This three-day event showcased the latest technology available and gave a glimpse of what will be emerging soon within sustainable energy. Leading companies from all over the world displayed the best and latest equipment in the fields of renewable energy, waste to energy, sustainable transport and energy efficiency.
For more information, please contact: Mr Paul Diamond, Director, European Media Marketing Ltd, PO Box 259, Bromley, BR1 1ZR, UK.
Fax: (+44) 181 289 8989;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.emml.com
29 de junio - 2 de julio de 1999
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Para más información, dirigirse a
Sr. M.A. Trossero y/o Sr. L.S. Botero, Departamento de Montes, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Roma 00100, Italia.
Fax: (+39) 06 52255618;
correo electrónico: [email protected] o [email protected]
The forum is organized in cooperation with the Forest Ecosystem Research Centre, University of Göttingen. In dialogue with all parties concerned, the forum will elaborate recommendations on sustaining the functions of forests as regulators in energy fluxes and matter cycles.
One of the forum's workshops, WSIII, covers the theme "Forests after the Kyoto Protocol - their potential role as sources and sinks of trace gases, particularly carbon dioxide".
For more information, please contact: Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation (NNA), Hof Möhr, D-29640 Schneverdingen, Germany.
Fax: (+49) 5199 98946; e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected];
www.forests.in.focus.comlink.apc.org
[See also under Germany in Country Compass for more information on this forum.]
The theme of the ISES 1999 Solar World Congress, hosted by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), is "Solar is Renewable". The congress aims to study carefully the impact of solar and renewable energy sources, as well as other environmental issues, in previous decades and for those to come. One of the many topics to be discussed will be "Biomass energy conversion".
For more information, please contact: Secretariat, ISES 1999 Solar World Congress, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel.
Fax: (+972) 3 5175674;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.ises.org
This symposium is being organized by the Centre for Energy and Thermal Systems and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
For more information, please contact the Symposium Chairman, Prof. Ping Cheng, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, China, Hong Kong SAR.
Fax: (+852) 2358 1543;
e-mail: [email protected];
www-mech.ust.hk/see2000/
The congress theme is "Renewables: the Energy for the 21st Century".
For more information, please contact: Prof. Ali Sayigh, Congress Chairman
and Director General of WREN,
147 Hilmanton, Lower Earley,
Reading RG6 4HN, UK.
Fax: (+44) 1189 611365;
e-mail: [email protected];
www.wrenuk.co.uk