Past events

Mike Mason, founder of Climate Care Hosted by the Oxford Energy Society Mike is currently working on a project to challenge the way we think about biomass, which he claims to be a grossly undervalued renewable energy. The microbes in cattle’s guts produce significant quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than CO2.In his presentation Mike will expain his plans [...]

Alexander Naumov, BP

Issues: Public private partnerships in the development of the necessary infrastructure planning and distributional aspects of transport infrastructure. John Howe, Professor of Transportation Engineering & Head of Infrastructural Engineering & Physical Planning, International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands Sue Barrett, Head of Transport Infrastructure, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

B2E: a startup weekend to developenvironmentally-focused business Commencing at 5pm on the 15th February and continuing on the 16th February, participants can learn about and develop environmentally-focused business ideas in an interactive way. Bring your own business idea, or join a team and work with others. £1000 awarded to the team with the best developed idea over theweekend. Open to all [...]

Suleiman Sa’ad

Issues: Meeting projected demand, the limits of current airport capacity and what would be the impacts of a new airport to the east of London and spillover effects of the development constraints at Heathrow. Daniel Moylan, The Mayor of London’s adviser on aviation Sveinn Gudmundsson, Professorof Strategic Management, Toulouse Business School

Professor Henry Snaith

Speaker: Lucian Pugliaresi

David Buchan and John Rhys

  Jim will be drawing on his experience in policy formation as part of the Committee onClimate Change to show how Energy policy is developed in line with Climategoals.