EEM News Database
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EEMI Leads Major Solar Conference
August 26, 2024
EEMI Director for Sustainable Energy, Professor Scott Sklar, served as the General Chairman of SOLAR 2024, the annual national conference of the American Solar Energy Society. The event, attended by some 500 in-person participants in addition to many virtual participants, was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Center on GW’s main Foggy Bottom campus on 20-23, 2024.
EEMI Completes Key Climate Change Research Project for the United Nations Secretariat
August 26, 2024
On May 31, 2024, EEMI submitted its final report on a research project that developed a National Digitalization Readiness Index. The NDRI is a comprehensive set of metrics designed to evaluate how prepared countries are for the ongoing worldwide transition to a digital economy as related to the global climate change challenge. The United Nations Climate Technology Centre and Network funded the project.
Professor Hassan Keynotes Three Green Business Forums for Climate Action
January 22, 2024
EEMI Director of Global Business Sustainability and GWSB Professor Dr. Salah S. Hassan served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) during the Winter and Summer semesters of 2023.
EEMI Leadership in Our Time Series Presents Two Important Webinars
January 22, 2024
In the Fall 2023 semester, EEMI Director of Professional Education Dr. Ed Saltzberg conducted two major webinars on top-level environmental and energy uses.
EEMI Involved in COP 28 Proceedings in Dubai
January 22, 2024
Key EEMI faculty members were involved in various aspects of the proceedings of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties event held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates during the period November 30-December 13, 2023 (COP 28).
EEMI Activity in the Public Media
January 22, 2024
Several EEMI members were active in the public media during the Fall-Winter 2023-2024 season. Here are a few examples:
EEMI Colleagues Sweep 2023 GW Engineering Excellence Awards for Teaching
January 22, 2024
In a rare circumstance, EEMI colleagues won both of the 2023 GW Engineering Excellence Awards for Teaching.
Dr. Rachael Jonassen Authors Asian Development Bank Guidebook Tool on Carbon Pricing
January 22, 2024
EEMI Director for Climate Change Dr. Rachael Jonassen authored a Chapter on Emission Trading Systems in a guidebook entitled “Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit” published by the Asian Development Bank in July 2023.
News of EEM Students and Faculty
January 22, 2024
On September 29, 2023, EEMI officers Dr. Salah Hassan and Dr. Jonathan Deason met with senior World Bank officials to discuss collaboration between the World Bank and EEMI in the area of climate change capacity building, focusing especially on women and youth empowerment.
Environmental and Energy Management Institute Conducts Supply Chain Seminar with CEO of Europe’s Second-largest Port
January 22, 2024
On September 21, the SEAS-based GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) conducted a seminar with Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges (second largest Port in Europe). The event was held in the Lehman Auditorium.
EEMI Awarded Grant by UN Climate Technology Center
January 22, 2024
In November 2023 the SEAS-hosted GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) was awarded a grant, in partnership with the Korean National Institute of Green Technology (NIGT), to undertake a project involving the development of a national digitalization readiness index to strengthen the capacities of developing countries to address technological challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
EEMI Co-Hosts Natural Resources Symposium
January 22, 2024
On November 15, 2023, the SEAS-Based GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) co-hosted a day long symposium in conjunction with the D.C.-based Environmental Law institute and the Industry Natural Resource Management Group.