Understanding BRICS Through the Prism of Energy: the Challenges of Moving Towards Renewable Energy, Durban 21st-23rd March 2013
BRICS is the forum of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. From 26th-27th March, the BRICS governments will hold the 5th BRICS summit, in Durban.
NUMSA has decided to organize this workshop, as we believe that the question of energy is clearly an important, if not even a central, concern for the BRICS countries.
There can be no question about the fact that for these economies to grow and develop, they will need to ensure a continually growing supply of energy.
As such, one of the agendas of the new entity called BRICS will have to be the question of energy production, distribution and consumption.
This is true both for the BRICS governments, and also, more importantly as concerns us here, for developing working class perspectives about BRICS.
A. Workshop Information
1. Understanding BRICS through the prism of energy
2. Programme understanding BRICS prism of energy
3. Participants list understanding BRICS prism of energy
4. Numsa's fact sheet on BRICS: Download here
B. Workshop Proceedings
Day 1 Presentations in BRICS summit held at Durban
Opening speech by Numsa President Cedric Gina during Brics Summit held at Durban: Download here to read
1. Presented by Celio Bermann
2. Presented Igor Shkraduyk
3. Presented by MG Suresh
4. Moving Mountains China Energy Group
Day two Presentations
1. Presentation by Lucia Ortiz
2. Presentation by Yuri Sergeev
3. Presentation by Numsa parliament officer, Woody Aroun
Day three Presentations
1 Presentation by Leonardo Maggi
2 Presentation by Igor Shrkradyuk.
3 Presentation by Shantanu Dixit
C. Numsa backgrounds documents on energy and climate change.
1. Building a Socially-Owned RE sector in SA
2. Climate Change and Class Struggle
3. Numsa's campaign against Eskom tariff increase and Numsa workshop on electricity pricing
D. Additonal articles sent by participants
1. Energy Policy paper– C. BERMANN
2. IEA paper C. BERMANN
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3.a. Prospects for development of non-conventional and Renewable sources of Energy on the Kola Peninsula
3.b. This position paper provides arguments for development of renewable energy sources on the Kola Peninsula, summarizes the scientific findings of the Kola Science Centre study of alternative energy potential in the region, and makes recommendations that outline a plan of action for implementation of renewable energy on the Kola Peninsula.
4. Economic aspects of small Scale-scale renewable energy development in remote settlements of the Kola Peninsula
5. Making decentralised renewable energy work for rural access
By Vishal Toro, Ashwin Gambhir and Shantanu Dixit
6. How to support Solar Power Projects?