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Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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17
Nov
Smith School (Oxford) COP27 Round Up
Camberon Hepburn et al
Thursday 17 Nov 2022 | Online
Our expert panel will share their highlights of COP27 and take stock of progress. They will address the most significant developments as well as identifying areas which missed out and what this means going forward. The panel will also discuss the broader future of the COP process and its place in the fight for net zero.
Speakers:
Professor Cameron Hepburn
Dr Steve Smith
Dr [...]
15
Nov
Energy Seminar – week 6: Retrofit at scale – solving the system challenge
Helene Gosden - speaking in person
Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 15 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Summary: Retrofit of our existing building stock is an urgent climate action needed to greatly reduce operational carbon emissions and conserve embodied carbon, by extending the life of existing buildings. It’s also an important part of climate adaptation. The urgency means that one building at a time will not be enough – we need to consider how we retrofit at [...]
Seminar | Week 6
10
Nov
How do we fix the energy crisis and the climate crisis? – a public talk by Greg Jackson, CEO Octopus Energy
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | Wesley Memorial Hall
Greg Jackson will be joined by Tessa Kahn, a widely-respected international climate change and human rights lawyer and Director of Uplift UK, a new campaigning group working on fossil fuels and energy issues; and Zoe Sprigings, the new director of the Oxfordshire Community Foundation that provides valuable support to many local initiatives across the county.
The meeting will be followed at a [...]
10
Nov
The Power of Inclusion: Designing equitable energy systems across social divisions – CO27 Side Events
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | Online
Climate Compatible Growth Programme: CO27 Side Events
Speakers:
Makena Ireri (Chair), Head of Energy at CLASP
Alexander Haack, Programme Director, Energising Development (EnDev)
Sam Stratton-Short, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure & Project Management at UNOPS
Elizabeth Wangeci Chege, Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist at Sustainable Energy for All
Edwin Obiero, Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action
Abstract: Inclusion is an important yet undervalued part of [...]
09
Nov
Conference: European Biomass to Power
Wednesday 09 Nov 2022 | ACIEU
ACI’s 11th European Biomass to Power Summit in November, 2022.
The two-day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from the biomass industry: feedstock suppliers, biomass plant operators, end-product manufacturers, as well as technology providers – for two days of informative presentations, interactive discussion & excellent networking opportunities.
Following the success of our previous conference in Manchester, UK, we are delighted to [...]
08
Nov
Energy Seminar – week 5: What are the most important decisions to enable smart local energy systems?
Dr Jeff Hardy - speaking in person
Seminar | Week 5 | Tuesday 08 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
The UK does not have the appropriate policy, institutional and regulatory framework to realise the technical, economic, and societal potential of SLES. This report is a summary of the findings from a series of workshops that aimed to understand what decisions are needed to implement smart local energy systems (SLES). The work was led by the Grantham Institute at Imperial [...]
Seminar | Week 5
01
Nov
Energy Seminar – week 4: Title: Climate, Energy and Affordable Housing Solutions: new buildings and retrofits.
Jonathan F.P. Rose - speaking in person
Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 01 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Jonathan F.P. Rose, a leader of the green building movement in the United States will present his work bringing energy and climate reducing strategies to affordable housing in the USA.
Jonathan’s firm received global recognition for its model green affordable housing project, Via Verde, developed in 2012 in New York City’s South Bronx. The project became a model for green affordable/ [...]
Seminar | Week 4
25
Oct
ARE WE HEADED FOR A WASTE LAND?
Tuesday 25 Oct 2022 | Natural History Museum Oxford
Industrial waste can harm our planet in numerous ways – from water pollution and soil erosion to global warming. As consumption increases, are we headed for a WASTE LAND?
Join researchers Professor Tina Fawcett, Dr Martin Michette and Dr Labib Azzouz as they discuss how innovations in building materials, transport, and domestic energy use might help us to mitigate the harmful [...]
25
Oct
Energy Seminar – week 3: Functional materials for energy efficient devices – From smart windows to computing devices
Harish Bhaskaran - speaking in person
Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 25 Oct 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Summary: As our knowledge of materials at the nanoscale has grown, so has our knowledge of how to structure such devices at the nanoscale. After all, it is the two acting in concert – the material and the structure – that gives rise to functionality. The area of functional materials has a third knob – what happens if we can [...]
Seminar | Week 3
21
Oct
ONE Annual Lecture – Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene: Promising New Directions or Dead End?
Professor Harriett Buckeley, University of Durham
Conference | Friday 21 Oct 2022 | Natural History Museum Oxford
Oxford Networks for the Environment Annual lecture 2022 and briefing event
Keynote speaker: Harriet Buckeley | Over the thirty years since global environmental issues rose to prominence on international science and policy agendas their governance has largely been undertaken under the paradigm of ecological modernism. Ecological modernism carries with it deeply held and often implicit assumptions which are bound up [...]
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