Past events

09 Oct

Special Lecture 2023 with Dr Andrew Forrest AO

Dr Andrew Forrest AO

In this special lecture, Andrew Forrest – Executive Chairman of Fortescue – will explore the unique responsibility of industrialists and business leaders to go further and faster on emissions reduction. Dr Forrest will delve into the challenge of decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries, emphasizing the need for innovative solutions without relying on carbon offsets. He will draw upon his experience as Executive [...]

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04 Oct

Designing net zero governance: The moment for multilateral governance and national regulation

Selam Kidane Abebe (Oxford Net Zero), Kaya Axelsson (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the Environmental Change Institute)

National net zero commitments now cover 88% of global emissions, 92% of GDP and 89% of the world’s population (Net Zero Tracker). To support this, net zero guidance and standards now exist for organisations at every level of the economy. Still, an implementation gap exists with respect to net zero regulation and implementation at the national level – and there is limited [...]

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28 Sep

11th Oxford energy Day

The 11th Oxford Energy Day took place on Thursday 28th September 2023. This year’s Oxford Energy Day focused on Energy and Innovation. The day’s presentations and collaborations examined diverse aspects of innovation and considered how Energy research at the University of Oxford provides solutions and the evidence to inform policy and action to deliver the energy transition. Thank you to all those [...]

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Conference
23 Sep

Changing Urban Transport: Why Oxford and Other UK Cities Are Experimenting With Controversial Policies

Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford )

Tim’s research concentrates on the geographies of the everyday mobilities of people, goods and information. It is international in outlook, interdisciplinary in scope, informed by the thinking in various sub-disciplines within Geography, and organised around five more general concerns: Low-carbon mobilities and cities – innovation and experimentation, transformations, politics and governance, justice; Futures and temporality – sociotechnical transitions, path dependency, [...]

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20 Sep

Learning across global regions: Comparing climate marketcraft in developing countries

Dr Jose Maria Valenzuela, University of Oxford

Local climate action benefits from learning across national cases, as there are valuable opportunities to look at recent experiences on policy and institutional design, and implementation. Novel experiences of economic reconfiguration and innovation in developing countries are rarely taken as models for extrapolation, and when comparisons occur amongst developing countries, these are mostly within regions. In this Oxford Net Zero [...]

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19 Sep

Oxford Energy Innovation Forum

On Tuesday 19 September 2023 (09:30 – 17:00), we will be hosting an open, in-person innovation forum at the King’s Centre in Oxford. The day will start with a SSEN-hosted in-person tour, visiting elements of Project LEO and TRANSITION across Osney Island. This will be followed by presentations on similar, flexibility-focused innovation projects from other distribution networks. Please find the agenda here. Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) has [...]

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10 Jul

Agile Initiative Summer School – Oxford Martin School 10-14 July 2023

The Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School will run a residential Summer School 10-14 July 2023. Open to interdisciplinary researchers working on challenges relating to both policy and environmental science. Guided by experts including Charles Godfray, Sarah Whatmore and Sam Fankhauser. There are fifty places for UK-based post-doctoral, PhD, DPhil and MPhil researchers in the field. Details (including subsidised [...]

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