ASPO Conference 2012
Welcome to Vienna!
We are happy to announce that Vienna will be hosting the 10th annual ASPO Conference, a gathering of international top experts on the depletion of oil and the future of energy and society. ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, is an international network of experts. ASPO conferences are a well known platform of exchange for scientists, the business sector, public authorities and NGOs from all over the world. It is the first time that Austria is the host country of an ASPO International conference.
The 10th Annual ASPO Conference will take place at Palais Niederösterreich in Vienna´s beautiful city center during May 30 – June 1, 2012.
Objectives of the conference
The 10th annual ASPO conference will bring together decision makers, scientists, the business sector, public authoritities and NGOs to discuss challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil and review scenarios on energy supply and demand. High-level speakers, discussions and networking opportunities will allow exchange and know-how transfer on an international level.
The diversity of the program and participants from many different regions will bring new aspects into the discussion and create new perspectives on analyses, strategies and solution approaches.
The conference aims to provide insights about managing the challenges related to economic stability. The attendees will have the opportunity to obtain updates on the latest research on fossil fuel availability, on short and long term economic consequences of increasing energy prices.
Here´s an outlook on some of the topics planned for the ASPO 2012 conference:
- The Future of Energy Supply and Demand
- The Decline of Conventional Oil & Gas
- Europe´s Shale-Gas Perspective
- The Availability of Fossil Energy
- The geopolitical Perspective of Energy supply and infrastructure
- Economical and Societal Consequences of the Second Half of the Oil Age
- Strategy Options: Resilience & Transformation
- Peak Oil & Urban Design
Updates
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The ASPO 2012 Conference aims to be hosted under the criteria of the
Austrian ecolabel “Green Meetings”.
