Today, you are listening to the second and last part of the interview with Dr Popi Konidari, Head of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) of the Energy Policy and Development Centre at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
We discuss:
- The past government’s market and economic connections among (i) research innovation in the Greek academia and the Energy Policy and Development Centre of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, and (ii) the real economy.
- Can an expert in renewable energy technologies become an energy policymaker?
- How can decision tools promote renewable energy to the public based on its perception of new technologies?
- Does rejection mean you did not get your idea, right?
- Decision support tools (DST) such as HERON can show how policies can work or give a future outcome and then use AMS to evaluate all policy options or more appropriate for the national framework to implement these policies (economy, behaviour, institutional partners, society).
- What do Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models using data and behavioural variables of the demand side, offer to the impacts of Energy Efficiency (EE) policies?
- How hard is it to proceed with research on energy and climate change in a Hellenic university?
- Is it a failure if you have to leave members of the team behind due to lack of funds?
Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad
Source: Storyblocks
