17
Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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16
Oct
Solar and the rural community
various speakers
Wednesday 16 Oct 2024 | Wolfson College
On behalf of Photovolt Development Partners and the Earth Emergency Research Cluster at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, we are pleased to invite you to a fascinating and timely discussion on how new solar energy infrastructure can be designed around the needs of the rural landscape and its inhabitants.
The UK goal of net zero by 2050 will require a rewiring of [...]
15
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 1 MT24: Catastrophe or hope — which stories should we tell to motivate domestic energy retrofit?
Dr Yekatherina Bobrova, John Doggart
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 15 Oct 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT – hosted by Tina Fawcett
Summary: Powerful narratives are increasingly seen as a key enabler to encourage societal transformation and break away from established values, norms and status quo. Which stories should we tell? The ones that emphasise the extent of the catastrophe in progress, in order to shift people’s priorities and facilitate [...]
Seminar | Week 1
15
Oct
COP29 Expert Panel Briefing: Hope, fear and fossil fuels at COP29
Rachel Kyte, UK climate envoy and Professor of Climate Policy, Blavatnik School of Government Professor Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Oxford Smith School
Tuesday 15 Oct 2024 | Online
THIS IS AN ONLINE ONLY EVENT
COP29 is fast approaching and while concerns mount over the host country’s ties to oil and gas, NGOs, scientists and campaigners sound dire warnings that time is running out. These calls to action are backed up by a series of unprecedented weather events – hurricanes, fires and floods – that will pile pressure on world [...]
26
Sep
The race to accelerate renewables in the Global South
Thursday 26 Sep 2024 | Online
To achieve global net zero targets, we must act together. The Global South holds immense potential for renewable energy development, essential for a sustainable future no longer dependent on fossil fuels for economic prosperity. But how do we unlock this potential and learn from success?
This webinar explores recent research from Oxford University investigating the critical challenges, insights and opportunities for [...]
24
Sep
Cutting Emissions – What Policies Work?
Chris Stark, Anupama Sen, Ebba Mark, Moritz Schwarz
Tuesday 24 Sep 2024 | Online
A thought provoking panel discussion with Chris Stark, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero moderated by Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Anupama Sen with Ebba Mark and Moritz Schwarz.
This webinar will explore the recently published groundbreaking research on the analysis of #ClimatePolicies that worked and why.
18
Sep
Fourth Edition – OpenAg Symposium
Dr Julius Maada
Wednesday 18 Sep 2024 | Said Business School
The fourth edition of the OpenAg Symposium will be held at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on Wednesday 18th September 2024. From 12:00. Dr Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone will be delivering the keynote address.
The theme for this year’s symposium is Power Plants: Transforming Food, Energy and Water Security through Agriculture featuring panels on Energy Security and [...]
17
Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
The 12th Oxford Energy Day took place on Tuesday 17th September 2024.
This year’s Oxford Energy Day focused on Equity for the global energy transition.
Considering how to ensure equity in the energy transition at home and abroad, exploring how energy research at the University of Oxford helps to shape policy and action.
Thank you to those who attended. We hope you had [...]
Conference
21
Aug
Environmentally clean and dirty energy equities during extraordinary global conditions
Dr Scott Mahadeo
Wednesday 21 Aug 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building
BOOKING NOT REQUIRED
In this talk, Dr Scott Mahadeo, University of Portsmouth, will focus on linking extraordinary international events to pronounced changes in the equity markets for some of the world’s largest publicly traded suppliers on opposite sides of the global energy mix – oil and environmentally clean energy companies.
He will introduce an intuitively appealing non-linear approach to empirically timestamp unexpected [...]
08
Jul
Publishing with Joule: Editorial Insights from Cell Press
Kat Stephan, Andrew Wadsworth
Monday 08 Jul 2024 | Thom Building
REGISTRATION NOT NECESSARY – JUST TURN UP
Joule is one of the leading journals publishing energy research, covering a range of topics and scales from the fundamental understanding of energy-relevant phenomena, to the fabrication of devices and the development of policy and engineering solutions leading to the deployment of energy technologies in the real world.
In this talk Kat Stephan and Andrew [...]
11
Jun
Energy Seminar – Week 8 TT24: Bristol City Leap: A novel finance and procurement model for delivering net zero
Tedd Mose, Katherine Sugar
Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 11 Jun 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Summary: Public financing alone is insufficient for delivering net zero – private finance must also be secured to deliver decarbonisation at scale and pace. This seminar delves into the innovative procurement approach underpinning Bristol City Leap, an innovative procurement model introduced by Bristol City Council which addresses the urgency of decarbonization through a unique public-private partnership [...]
Seminar | Week 8