Video recording and presentations from the workshop
- Alfonso Blanco: The Latin American energy situation in the context of climate change and geopolitical shifts
- Jussi Pakkasvirta: Russia’s energy relations to the Nordic Countries and Latin America
- Ida Dokk Smith: The geopolitics of the energy transition after the Ukraine war
- Benedicte Bull: Sanctions and the new geopolitics of energy in Latin America
- Tor Håkon Jackson Indreberg: Can energy transitions be just? Insights from Include and windpower processes in Norway
- Gustav Cederlöf: New energy forms in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Susanne Normann: From the Amazon to the Arctic: the energy transition as green colonialism
- Klaus Skytte: Nordic energy cooperation
- Jens Nygaard Laursen: FlexWIND
- Stein-Gunnar Bondevik: Troms Kraft - Experiences from cooperation with Sami communities on renewable energy
This workshop will facilitate the sharing of ideas about sustainability and justice related to energy use in a new geopolitical context. The purpose is to contribute to both further academic, economic and political engagement between Latin America and the Nordic countries.
Registration
The workshop will be a hybrid and require registration. Alternatives for participation:
- Meeting room: Glød, Centre for Development and the Environment, Sandakerveien 130, 0484 Oslo
- Online: Zoom webinar
Please note that the event will be recorded. Registration closes Monday 9 May at 07:00.
About the workshop
Two major shifts have altered the incentives and conditions for international cooperation on energy: The requirement of a massive renewable energy transition and a global geopolitical shift. Both Latin America and the Nordic countries hold vast reserves of key resources needed in the renewable transition, but experience increasing conflicts over the use and distribution of energy resources.
This workshop will facilitate the sharing of ideas about sustainability and justice related to energy use in a new geopolitical context. The purpose is to contribute to both further academic, economic and political engagement between Latin America and the Nordic countries.
Programme
08:45 - 09:00 Opening remarks
- Welcome and introduction of the workshop program, Georg Wink (KU) & Benedicte bull (SUM)
09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speech
- The Latin American energy situation in the context of climate change and geopolitical shifts, Alfonso Blanco, Executive Secretary, The Latin American Energy Organization
10:45 - 12:15 A geopolitical shift and its consequences for regional energy cooperation
- Geopolitics, energy and regional cooperation in Latin America, Andrés Rivarola, SU
- Russia’s energy relations to the Nordic Countries and Latin America, Jussi Pakkasvirta, UH
- The geopolitics of the energy transition after the Ukraine war, Ida Dokk Smith, NUPI
- Sanctions and the new geopolitics of energy in Latin America, Benedicte Bull, SUM
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Energy justice, sustainability and conflicts
- How to make energy transitions just: Insights from Include, Tor Håkon Jackson Indreberg, FNI
- From the Amazon to the Arctic: The energy transition as green colonialism, Susanne Normann, UiO
- New energy forms in Latin America & the Caribbean, Gustav Cederlöf (online), GU
- Conflicts and global competition for Brazil’s energy resources, Markus Krörger, UH
15:30 - 17:00 Roundtable on energy collaboration between Nordic and Latin American countries
- Klaus Skytte, CEO, Nordic Energy Research
- Jens Nygaard Laursen, CEO, the FlexWind Group
- Experiences from cooperation with Sami communities on renewable energy production in Norway, Stein-Gunnar Bondevik, EVP Public Relations, Tromskraft (online)
- Alfonso Blanco, Executive Secretary, The Latin American Energy Organization
Organizers
The workshop is organized with funding from The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), and is a part of a series of workshops on Nordic-Latin America collaboration organized by the Universities of Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Gothenburg and Oslo.