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Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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02
Feb
The future of cooling and its links to the Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Nicole Miranda
Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 02 Feb 2021 | Online | Slides available
The International Energy Agency predicts that 10 air conditioners will be sold every second from here to 2030 – with long-lasting consequences for our energy consumption and the planet. Often considered as a side-show to research and policy covering heating; cooling is potentially the most significant opportunity we have to moderate the trajectory of energy demand. This talk will provide [...]
Seminar | Week 3
26
Jan
Global Energy Demand: a McKinsey reference case
Bram Smeets
Seminar | Week 2 | Tuesday 26 Jan 2021 | Online
The slides for this event are not available. Instead, McKinsey have offered two reports that relate to the research discussed in this presentation.
The GEP Reference Case
THe EU net-zero report
Energy systems around the world are going through rapid transitions that affect many aspects of our lives. The continuation and acceleration of these shifts will bring important changes to the way we [...]
Seminar | Week 2
01
Dec
Net Zero and beyond: creating a carbon storage market
Professor Stuart Haszeldine
Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 01 Dec 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. Net Zero and beyond: creating a carbon storage market
Since the early 1700’s, industrial societies have continually borrowed fossil carbon from the earth and funded a lavish lifestyle by overspending on their carbon credit card. Lack of repayment now results in penalties ranging from forest fires, hurricanes, [...]
Seminar | Week 8
24
Nov
Towards just transitions to low-carbon mobility
Professor Tim Schwanen
Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 24 Nov 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. Towards just transitions to low-carbon mobility
The need to rapidly move away from fossil fuels in transport is now commonly accepted. The myriad initiatives by governments, the private and third sectors and citizens, to transition to low-carbon mobility are now underway across the globe. One outcome of [...]
Seminar | Week 7
17
Nov
Energy access and off-grid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr Susann Stritzke
Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 17 Nov 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. Energy access and off-grid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa currently lack reliable and affordable access to energy and the achievement of SDG 7 by 2030 – Universal Access to Energy – seems currently out of reach. Rural electrification [...]
Seminar | Week 6
10
Nov
The road to net-zero: what we need to get right
Juliet Davenport
Seminar | Week 5 | Tuesday 10 Nov 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. ‘The road to net-zero:what we need to get right’.
The UK has a legally binding target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Achieving this bold aim will transform the UK economy and society as a whole. In this talk, Juliet Davenport will explore [...]
Seminar | Week 5
03
Nov
How do new things spread? The diffusion of digital low-carbon innovations.
Dr Charlie Wilson
Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 03 Nov 2020 | Online | Slides available
The recording of this presentation is available through YouTube. You can watch and listen here. ‘How do new things spread? The diffusion of digital low-carbon innovations‘.
In the past nine months we’ve all become familiar with how coronavirus spreads – how it’s passed between people, why it’s so infectious, how people vary in their susceptibility, and what role our social networks [...]
Seminar | Week 4
27
Oct
Objectively assessing the (in)compatibility of power assets with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs
Dr Ben Caldecott
Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 27 Oct 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. Achieving climate alignment in finance (formerly Objectively assessing the (in)compatibility ….).
Aligning the economy with sustainability requires us to understand the i) impacts that current and planned projects will have on the local and global environment, as well as on sustainable development and ii) the stranded asset risks [...]
Seminar | Week 3
14
Oct
Energy and Carbon in the Anthropocene
Professor Nick Eyre
Seminar | Week 1 | Wednesday 14 Oct 2020 | Online | Slides available
The presentation is available on YouTube. You can watch and listen to it here. Energy and Carbon in the Anthropocene.
Energy use is the dominant cause of carbon emissions and climate change. Fossil fuels have been the main source of energy globally since the Industrial Revolution, enabling the human societies that characterise the Anthropocene. Delivering on the climate mitigation goals of [...]
Seminar | Week 1
12
Oct
#ONEsuperyear for nature | Webinar
Jim Hall, Harriet Waters, Nathan Lawson & Shobhan Dhir
Monday 12 Oct 2020 | Online
You can watch the ONE #Superyear for Nature presentation on Microsfot TEAMS. It was recorded on 12 October 2020.
The Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) facilitate connections between all Oxford researchers working on environmental research in biodiversity, climate, energy, food and water. The networks exchange knowledge and expertise, enabling Oxford University to be ‘greater than the sum of its parts’, [...]