Is Global Energy Management A Pipe Dream?
It’s an interesting exercise to look at consumption of energy around the world and to compare figures now to previous decades. We can see in an alarming increase in our thirst, which makes it even more troubling when we realize that there really is no such thing as an overall approach to global energy management as such. While the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development does help to monitor economic progress among the developed nations and to foster world trade, there is still no consensus when it comes to global energy management. In many of our schools of higher education, courses have been set up for undergraduates and graduates to understand global energy management. This is where students use what they will learn in relation to energy efficiency and sustainability in its broadest senses, for their career paths ahead. No two domestic governments seem to agree about energy management policies. It’s not surprising that we do not see any considerable progress in governme