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25 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 7: Raising the standard: Can international standards help save energy and carbon?

Dr Ian Byrne, IBECCS

Tuesday 25 Nov 2025 | Desert Room | Slides available
Summary: Industrial or electrotechnical standards have existed for over a century.  Initially focused on physical elements, such as screw threads or plugs, they have shifted towards management systems, such as ISO 9001.  More recently environmental or energy management standards have been developed, in areas such as life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting.  Currently ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) has standards [...]

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21 Nov

Climate Breakdown and Political Division: Navigating Polarisation with George Monbiot

George Monbiot

Friday 21 Nov 2025 | Oriel College
Oriel Environment Group Michaelmas 2025 in conversation with George Monbiot Join Professor Jan Rosenow (Jackson Senior Research Fellow, Oriel College) for a discussion with acclaimed investigative journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot. George Monbiot is a fierce and uncompromising voice in the climate debate. He will delve into the systemic failures and dangerous narratives that are undermining urgent environmental action. Don’t miss [...]

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18 Nov

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 6: Exploring Digitalisation’s Footprint

Yee Van Fan, University of Oxford

Tuesday 18 Nov 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary:  Digitalisation is often described as an enabler of sustainability transitions, though concerns about rebound effects remain. To truly support these transitions, however, it must not only foster sustainability elsewhere but also embody it within its own development. This talk explores the future footprint of digital infrastructures, focusing on data centres at the [...]

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14 Nov

COP30 Unlocking the local benefits of renewable energy

Professor Mette Morsing, Director, Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; Interim Dean, Said Business School

Friday 14 Nov 2025
In person at COP30 and online – Brazil, GMT – 3 hrs Renewable energy has many benefits – but these are not always appropriately distributed. Some jurisdictions are shifting from voluntary to mandated efforts to ensure renewables developers share benefits equitably with local communities. But how much is ‘enough’? And who pays? This event explores new research from the University of [...]

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11 Nov

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 5: Innovations for zero-carbon heating and cooling: the path to net-zero buildings by 2050

Prof Jesus Lizana, University of Oxford

Tuesday 11 Nov 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary:  In this talk, Prof. Jesus Lizana will present the latest research from the ZERO Institute at the University of Oxford on zero-carbon heating and cooling. The talk will examine the role of the building sector in achieving net-zero targets by 2050, drawing on new evidence from citizen-powered climate observations and projections to [...]

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04 Nov

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 4: Energy Abundance: Powerful vision for a better future or a flawed fantasy?

Dr Tina Fawcett

Tuesday 04 Nov 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: ‘Abundance’, a best-selling 2025 book by Americans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, makes the claim that “we need to build and invent more of what we need”. Building much more low-cost energy supply is a key part of the authors’ vision. They reject what they call the seductive ideologies of scarcity.  Using [...]

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30 Oct

Book talk – Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars

Professor Dame Henrietta L Moore, Arthur Kay, Professor Tim Schwanen, Professor Sir Charles Godfram

Thursday 30 Oct 2025
Join Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL), and Arthur Kay (Director, Innovo) for a provocative discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped not only our cities and infrastructure, but our economies, health, and freedoms. For more than a century, the car has been a symbol of freedom and progress. But what if that promise has [...]

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28 Oct

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 3: Beyond the BMS: Leveraging Predictive Analytics for Smarter Energy Storage

Elizabeth Oliphant, Global Solutions Manager, ACCURE Battery Intelligence

Tuesday 28 Oct 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Unlocking accurate SoC, deeper SoH insights, and early fault detection to advance battery performance in the data-driven BESS era. Summary: As the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) industry accelerates alongside renewable energy adoption, advanced battery management is becoming essential. While traditional Battery Management Systems (BMS) provide critical safety and operational control, they often lack [...]

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22 Oct

Feeding the world while preserving earth’s livability: the bio-fuel barrier

Prof David Tilman

Wednesday 22 Oct 2025 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
The two fastest-growing global uses of food crops are their conversion into biofuels and their use as livestock feeds. Prof Tilman will discuss how, when both their direct and indirect environmental impacts are considered, most food-based biofuels cause more environmental harm than the petroleum fuels they replace. The solution to global food and environment problems is often thought to require [...]

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