Area
Engineering and Technology
Sub-Discipline
Environmental Engineering
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
- City: Valparaìso,
- Commune: Valparaìso,
- Region: Valparaíso Region
goals
The Master's in Clean Development Mechanisms and Energy Efficiency is a professional program whose main objective is to contribute to the training of professionals with in-depth and advanced knowledge, providing them with tools that will allow them to identify opportunities, develop, promote and increase greenhouse effect mitigation projects, as well as those projects related to renewable energies, energy efficiency and circular economy.
Applicant Profile
The Master's Program in Clean Development Mechanism and Energy Efficiency is aimed at professionals related to the environmental, energy and project management areas, entrepreneurs and business owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, academics and researchers from universities; who need to work directly or indirectly in the carbon market, whether through the mechanisms developed by the United Nations or the voluntary market, GHG mitigation projects, energy efficiency, renewable energies, carbon footprint and environmental sustainability.
Graduate profile
The program will be geared towards training specialists capable of:
i. To fully understand the operation and cycle of the CDM, integrating knowledge and experience in a way that allows them to comprehensively and systematically analyze the alternatives and possible opportunities that this mechanism represents.
ii. Identify and visualize the potential of CDM projects that generate both environmental and economic benefits related to carbon credit trading.
iii. Understand the link between production processes, the environmental and energy sustainability of the processes and the carbon market.
iv. Formulate projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify applicable technologies and methodologies, and in particular the formulation of projects that consider the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
v. Identify the systems with the highest energy consumption in an industrial plant and propose improvement alternatives to optimize overall energy efficiency.
vi. Evaluate technological alternatives for fuel replacement considering the incorporation of Non-Conventional Renewable Energies.
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