The Annual Mary Choncoff Endowed Lecture: “The Challenge of Kyoto for Macedonia: Climate Change and Sustainability in Southeastern Europe”

Dr. Lazarevska discusses the Kyoto Protocol’s contribution to sustainable development in Macedonia. She explores attempts to acheive sustainable development, to abate the impact of climate change, and to implement energy efficiency measures in a small country under the economic and political realities of Southeastern Europe.

Dr. Ana Lazarevska received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ss. Kiril and Metodij in Skopje, Macedonia. Her dissertation focused on the “Methodology for Optimal Implementation of Project Activities in Line with the Kyoto Protocol’s Flexible Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).” She is an instructor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ss. Kiril and Metodij and supports foreign consultants in the process of identifying opportunities for implementing CDM in Macedonia. Her research activities include utilizing Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Theory to study the mitigation of climate change through the implementation of CDM and the concept of sustainable development, as well as identifying opportunities for implementing CDM in Macedonia, primarily in the energy and integrated solid waste management sectors. At the Energy and the Environment 2008 conference in Croatia, she and her colleague, Risto Ciconkov, gave a paper on “Clean Development Mechanism versus Energy and the Environment.”