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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Seminar | Week 8
04 Jun

Energy Seminar – Week 7 TT24: Beyond 2030: A national blueprint for a decarbonised electricity system in Great Britain

Paul Wakeley

Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 04 Jun 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: The ESO (Electricity System Operator) published a plan called “Beyond 2030” in March 2024. This plan outlines an ambitious investment of over £58bn in transmission infrastructure up until 2030. The goal of this plan is to connect approximately 85GW of offshore wind capacity and facilitate the transition to a zero carbon electricity [...]

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Seminar | Week 7
28 May

Energy Seminar – Week 6 TT24: Rethinking Energy: How technology is turbocharging the green revolution

Greg Jackson

Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 28 May 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
THIS IS AN IN PERSON ONLY EVENT Summary: Energy is one of the final frontiers of digitisation. It is also the industry which holds the most promise for transformation to deliver a greener, cheaper, fairer world. Growing from zero to thirteen billion dollars of revenue in eight years, Octopus Energy is now the UK’s biggest electricity supplier and rapidly growing around [...]

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Seminar | Week 6