1.The geopolitical disposition of power based on fossil fuel energy in historical context and projections over next decades: demography; economy; markets; technology; geophysics
* Picking up from the rise of the British Empire based in large part to the dual exploitation of forced labour, first mover of fossil fueled (coal) industrialization;
*Succeeded by US hegemony based on fossil fueled (oil) industrialization and nuclear power; Russia as fossil fuel giant and China as energy dependent and reliant on coal;
* Jamaica’s socioeconomic growth and development determined by its geophysical character, the geopolitical transitions and the phenomenon of forced climate change
2. The concern for the environment arising from the economic models of ‘built-in obsolescence’, externalization of costs, leading eventually to the scientific findings of anthropogenic forcing of climate change associated with greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
3. Recap of Professor Chen’s presentation on the nexus between global warming impacts and mitigation of fossil fuels induced greenhouse gases (GHG)
4. Jamaica’s primary energy balance in the context of external balances influenced by resource limits and technology and geopolitical forces.
-Global energy balances by fuel source and geopolitical groupings
-Greenhouse gas emissions by country and international commitments (UNFCC)
-Impacts, costs and remedial measures, with special reference to Jamaica and region
5. The features of a Route Map for Jamaica’s mitigation of greenhouse gases through the exploitation of its renewable primary energy resources and the roll out of the technologies in social and economic sectors
