Net Zero from scientific concept to policy and practice
Alexis McGivern (Net Zero Standards Manager, Oxford Net Zero), Kaya Axelsson (Head of Policy and Partnerships, Oxford Net Zero), Dr Matilda Becker (Strategic Partnerships Manager, Oxford Net Zero)
- Start  Wednesday 12 Feb 2025 12:00pm
- Finish Wednesday 12 Feb 2025 1:00pm
- Venue Online
From January 2025, Oxford Net Zero, the ZERO Institute and OxEARTH will jointly host an online seminar series entitled “The Reality of Net Zero”. Academics from the three institutions will give talks on why we need net zero, what progress we have made (and not made), and what it will take to get there in a sustainable, durable and equitable way. Each seminar will have time for audience questions.
The series will run for eight weeks and will cover the architecture of net zero – science, international law, governance and energy systems. Interwoven with these will be solutions from different disciplines, including carbon dioxide removal, batteries and nature-based solutions.
Future events
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 2: Proving and Scaling Hydrogen: Building a Viable, Commercial Hydrogen Economy from the Ground Up
Tuesday 06 May 2025
2025 Battcock Lecture – Climate realism: Time for a reset
Wednesday 07 May 2025
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 3: Remote, Rural, and Peripheral: Energy Equity and Spatial Justice in Marginalised Contexts of the Global South
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Annual ONE Lecture – Power to the people: civic freedoms, climate justice and the century of the citizen
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 5: Approaching the Energy Impact Reduction of the National Trust’s Conservation Area Holiday Cottages
Tuesday 27 May 2025
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 6: Public attitudes towards energy infrastructure and technologies: Why it matters what people think and feel about the energy transition
Tuesday 03 Jun 2025
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 7: Title tbc
Tuesday 10 Jun 2025
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 8: TBC
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Tuesday 17 Jun 2025