The Energy Transition in a Health-Constrained World
May 25, 2021
Programme - Central Time
09:00-09.10 Victor Flatt — University of Houston Law Center — Welcome words/Opening remarks.
Panel 1 (09:10-10:10) Implementing the Energy Transition: Overview and Specific Issues
Gina Warren — University of Houston Law Center — Chair.
Tom Moerenhout — Columbia University — Key Energy Transition Needs and How COVID-19 Recovery Packages are Performing.
Bernadette Le Baut-Ferrarese — University of Lyon 3 Jean Moulin — The Place of Nuclear Power in the Energy Transition. EU Law between Ambivalence and Ambiguity.
Salil K. Sen — Management Development Institute of Singapore — The Energy Futures Point of Inflexion: Re-nuclear with Health Assurance.
Sanya Carley — Indiana University — Energy Insecurity in the United States.
Panel 2 (10:30-11:30) Governing the Energy Transition: Ambitions and Efforts
Victor Flatt — University of Houston Law Center — Chair.
Tracy-Lynn Field – University of the Witwatersrand — Energy transitions in a COVID-disrupted Africa.
Louis De Fontenelle — University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour — The problematic recomposition of the environment: the case of energy transitions in the face of the conjunction of crises.
Jennie C. Stephens — Northeastern University — Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
Alfonso Lopez de la Osa & Aubin Nzaou — University of Houston Law Center — The Role of Climate Litigation in the Energy Transition. The Endeavor Behind a New Form of Non-State Actors’ Activism.
11:50-12:00 Alfonso Lopez de la Osa — University of Houston Law Center — Closing Remarks.
