Rae Kwon Chung chairs the Global Energy Prize International Award Committee; he is an Advisor to the Chair of the Group of high-level leaders and experts on water and disasters with the UN General Secretary, as well as a member of IPCC, awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
“This is a great honour for me to accept the title of the Honorary Doctor of Moscow Power Engineering Institute. I am committed to devote all possible energies to strengthen our cooperation and with great pleasure will continue my cooperation with the National Research University “MPEI” in my new status”, Rae Kwon Chung commented.
Rae Kwon Chung promotes the concept of low-carbon green growth as a new paradigm assuming economic development of countries and creation of new jobs simultaneously counteracting climate change. The concept is based on proliferation of generally accessible technologies including by way of mandatory licensing and transfer of technologies owned by governments.
In 2007, as a member of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rae Kwon Chung received the Nobel Peace Prize for the efforts of the Panel to accumulate and disseminate knowledge about human-induced climate change and development of measures required to counteract such change.
“In 2020, the MPEI Department of innovation technologies of knowledge-intensive industries proposed to give Mr. Rae Kwon Chung the title of the Honorary Doctor of Moscow Power Engineering Institute for his big contribution to science, to developing the renewable energy and energy-saving technologies. The Academic Council of the MPEI supported this proposal”, Andrey Rogalev, the Head of the Department of innovation technologies of knowledge-intensive industries, says.
This is not the first visit by Rae Kwon Chung to the National Research University MPEI. He gives lectures there on the future outlook of the renewable energy, environmental protection, and climate change on an occasional basis.
