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The
Energy Research Centre (ERC) is a multi-disciplinary energy research
centre,
housed in the
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the
University of Cape Town.
The Centre conducts high quality, targeted and relevant research as well
as offering
postgraduate opportunities at the Masters and PhD levels.
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Invitation to a
conference to be held in Cape Town in March 2010 |
PUTTING A PRICE ON CARBON
Economic instruments to mitigate climate change
in South Africa and other developing countries
click here for more details |
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Concentrating
solar power |
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In May 2009 ERC held a one-day workshop to
discuss:
What are the technical, industrial and
infrastructure requirements for the large-scale rollout of
CSPgeneration in South Africa?
Click
here to
access downloadable presentations
and the final workshop report |
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THE ECONOMICS OF
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION |
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ERC in collaboration with Genesis Analytics and the
Environmental Policy Research Unit (also at UCT) in
February 2009 published a series of five reports on
the economics of climate change mitigation. All are
now available on the website
here.
Now also
available: Powerpoint presentations from two
events organised at the 2009 Climate Change
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Long-term
mitigation scenarios |
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Downloadable: Several documents
from the major project which provided government with the
basis for a broadly supported, robust climate policy
Go to the LTMS page |
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Background
information on climate change in South Africa