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24 Oct

Energy Seminar – Week 3: Winning the Energy Transition

Chris Nelder, xenetwork

Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 24 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Researchers focusing on the energy transition, as well as the journalists and podcasters who cover them, risk focusing too much on the facts of climate science and the portfolio of technology solutions that can effectuate the energy transition, while missing the vitally important context of realpolitik and political economy in which we [...]

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Seminar | Week 3
17 Oct

Energy Seminar – Week 2: Targeting Transformation of the World’s Energy Supply with the Most Practical Path to Commercial Fusion Energy

Myles Hildebrand, General Fusion

Seminar | Week 2 | Tuesday 17 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: This talk will explain Magnetized Target Fusion, how it draws on concepts from both magnetic and inertial confinement fusion and sidesteps the traditional barriers to commercial fusion. A brief overview of past experimental success will be provided along with a description of General Fusion’s future plans on their path to commercialization. General [...]

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Seminar | Week 2
11 Oct

Onshore CO2 storage in the UK: What’s the current state of knowledge?

Tom Kettlety (Department of Earth Sciences)

Wednesday 11 Oct 2023 | Weston Library
Permanent CO2 storage is an integral part of reaching net zero and meeting the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. The UK has committed to develop CO2 storage in geological reservoirs deep underground, but so far has focussed on doing so offshore. Onshore storage might well prove useful, however, especially for sources of emissions that are dispersed and far from [...]

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10 Oct

Energy Seminar – Week 1: The political economy of fossil fuel subsidy reform in developing countries

Dr Neil McCulloch, Director, Policy Practice

Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 10 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: This seminar will outline the main arguments of the new book on “Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies – the politics of saving the planet”, written by Dr. Neil McCulloch.  The book explains what fossil fuel subsidies are, how they inflict harm and what steps are being taken to reduce them.  It also shows [...]

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Seminar | Week 1
09 Oct

Special Lecture 2023 with Dr Andrew Forrest AO

Dr Andrew Forrest AO

Monday 09 Oct 2023 | Trinity College
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)

Wednesday 04 Oct 2023 | Weston Library
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

Conference | Thursday 28 Sep 2023 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
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 )

Saturday 23 Sep 2023
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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