Roundtable Russia-EU-China Energy Relations: Energy Security and Diversification

Date: Thursday, 21.04.2011, 14:00 – 19:00

Place : Pokrovskii Blvd. 11, Moscow, Russian Federation, 109028

Registration: Free of charge for HSE-students;

To register for this event send an e-mail to Robert Kuenne rmk5@kent.ac.uk or Philipp Stollenwerk ps279@kent.ac.uk

Abstract:

Securing energy supply has become a central task for a vast number of states in the last decades. Important changes in energy politics can be observed in Russia, Europe, and China. While Europe, on the one hand, seeks further independence from Russian energy imports, Russia, on the other hand, increasingly turns towards energy-hungry China and vice versa. Against the background of the severe challenges which climate change presents and, at the same time, the finiteness of fossil resources, Europe is striving to make their economy energy efficient and promote alternative energy resources. Can Europe’s experience with energy efficiency and renewables serve as a blueprint for Russia and China? This Roundtable will address numerous issues related to these current developments and seeks to provide profound analysis of the peculiarities of Russia-EU-China energy relations from a political and economic perspective. In awareness of the particular importance of these developments – once again in the spotlight in the wake of current events in Japan – the Higher School of Economics with the kind support of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Moscow, dedicate this roundtable to energy issues.