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12 May

Industry Meets Academia Day 2025 (IMAD2025)

Various

Monday 12 May 2025 | Keble College
This event is organised by the ECR Network of the ZERO Institute, University of Oxford, aiming to foster meaningful connections between academic researchers and industry professionals working towards net-zero and decarbonisation. IMAD2025 seeks to bridge the gap between academia and industry by helping researchers better understand industrial priorities, while offering companies fresh perspectives on research-driven solutions to real-world challenges. Topics will [...]

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07 May

2025 Battcock Lecture – Climate realism: Time for a reset

Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy, Cameron Hepburn, Professor Mette Morsing

Wednesday 07 May 2025 | Online
We face a grim reality: the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere continues to rise, and fossil fuels still underpin 80% of our energy system. There are solutions – but are we focused on the right ones? Join renowned Oxford Professor of Economic Policy, Dieter Helm for a dose of ‘climate realism’ on the UK’s most pressing issues, including how to [...]

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07 May

How important are organisational standards to the net-zero transition?

Emily Lydgagte, University of Sussex, Claire Wigg, Exponential Roadmap, Devin McDaniels, WTO Secretariat, Ritwika Sengupta, BSI

Wednesday 07 May 2025 | Online
The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy is hosting a webinar on Net zero standards and trade. Despite trade turbulence, standards and regulatory requirements focusing on supply chain emissions are re-shaping trade patterns. The British Standards Institution commissioned the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy to research issues at the intersection of organisational standards, trade and the net-zero transition. Organisational standards that support [...]

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06 May

Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 2: Proving and Scaling Hydrogen: Building a Viable, Commercial Hydrogen Economy from the Ground Up

Ian Wilkinson, Geopura

Tuesday 06 May 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: The transition to a hydrogen economy won’t happen all at once. It needs commercially viable solutions that work now, at scale. In this seminar, Ian Wilkinson, COO at GeoPura, will outline how the company is building a market for clean hydrogen through targeted, high-impact applications – from construction sites and live TV [...]

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29 Apr

Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 1: Grounding domestic energy models with empirical data

Tadj Oreszczyn, UCL Energy Institute

Tuesday 29 Apr 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Domestic Energy Models have been used in the UK to energy rate buildings since the 1980’s. They have become a critical tool for policy makers, building regulations and helping  homeowners decide what homes to purchase, rent and refurbish. Domestic energy models all need grounding in empirical data. The roll-out of smart meters [...]

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25 Mar

Oxford Advanced Materials Network Launch

various speakers

Tuesday 25 Mar 2025 | Corpus Christi College
Next generation applications including energy generation and storage systems, medical devices, functional lightweight composites, autonomous vehicles, packaging, and multi- functional materials such as conducting glasses, fibres, and smart polymers critically depend on the design and controlled, sustainable manufacturing of materials. Input from across different departments will be essential to create real innovation in these areas. Advanced computational methods have reached a [...]

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13 Mar

Using geophysics to understand volcanic eruptions and search for geothermal energy resources

Prof Martyn Unsworth

Thursday 13 Mar 2025 | Oxford Martin School
Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and have significant economic impact. However, active volcanoes are also a source of geothermal energy, and are used to produce heat and electricity in a number of locations around the world. Understanding the risks of a volcanic eruption, and developing geothermal energy resources, requires information about where molten rock and hot water is located [...]

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11 Mar

Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 8: The astonishing rise of solar PV

Dr Chris Jardine

Tuesday 11 Mar 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: 25 years ago, solar PV was a hugely expensive, niche energy technology.  Today, it’s one of the cheapest means of generating electricity worldwide and we’re installing Gigawatts every single day.   It’s easy to take this for granted, perhaps – so here’s a light-hearted review of how it all happened. Speaker: Chris joined the [...]

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06 Mar

The MEGA Green Tech Series – part 3 carbon capture

Tim Kruger, Founder & Chief Scientist, Origen Power; Senior Associate, Oxford Net Zero; Co-founder, Carbon Gap, Amrit Gill, Molecular Biologist, CyanoCapture

Thursday 06 Mar 2025 | New College
Net-zero does not mean zero emissions! Carbon capture is a vital part of the strategy, helping us to remove greenhouse gases emitted from hard-to-abate sources like aviation and livestock. Moreover, carbon capture is the integral mechanism in 2oc-target models which predict some degree of ‘overshoot’. This week at MEGA they introduce companies from two of the main carbon capture modes: geological [...]

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