Transforming the Energy Supply of Small Island Developing States and Other Coastal Communities with Utility-Level Electrical Power Generation from Ocean Waves – A Sustainable Development Innovation Multi-Stakeholder Partnership [1]
Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Time: 8 00 AM - 9 30 PM
Venue: United Nations HQ (NYC), Conference Room 12
About the event:
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes multi-stakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies, and financial resources to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, particularly developing countries. Faced with the clear and present threat of climate change, concrete, realistic, and enduring partnerships are needed now to mitigate this pressing challenge.
Speakers will introduce The Partnership for Offshore Ocean Wave Power. Its goal is to identify the correct stakeholders, mechanisms, and funding sources required to develop and deploy a wave energy conversion system based on a technical breakthrough that makes it capable of delivering zero-emissions, utility-level, electrical power generation from ocean waves.
Moderator: Charles Nouhan, Chairman, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Speakers:
Charles Nouhan, on the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership
Rik van Hemmen, President, and Senior Partner, Martin & Ottaway on the SurfWEC concept
Michael Raftery, Chief Technology Officer, SurfWEC LLC on the technology
Claudia LaRue, Sustainability Specialist, PSE&G Institute for Sustainability Studies, Montclair State University, on partnerships
Elira Karaja Ph.D., Economist and Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University on the economics of Leaving no one behind
Respondent: Mr. Sainivalati S. Navoti (Sai), Chief of the Small Island Developing States Unit (SIDS Unit), Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UNDESA
Read a full list of Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) events here [2].
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