Events

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Andy Burnham has resurrected the idea of the public ownership of energy from the margins into Downing Street, promising “stronger public control” over energy in his forthcoming ten-year plan. But does control mean ownership? This seminar presents preliminary results from new research on how ownership shapes the cost of capital in Britain’s [...]

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Tim will describe the journey to fusion energy. The work at UKAEA’s Culham Campus near Oxford has been at the forefront of this field for decades, including operating the international JET fusion machine until 2023. Fusion is now in a transition from primarily laboratory research to commercial activity, with rapidly increasing private-sector activity. [...]

Summary: This seminar, based on outputs from a recent research sprint on Environment and National Security, will look at how energy security fits into the big picture of environmental security. It will explore how energy, food, water, climate and nature resilience are interlinked, and how environmental degradation leads to cascading risks for national security. Finally, it will look at how [...]

Summary: The global shift to clean energy is increasing demand for the critical materials needed for renewable technologies and electric vehicles. For mineral-rich countries such as Zambia, this creates opportunities for investment, economic growth and participation in emerging clean-energy supply chains. However, it also raises important social and environmental challenges. Drawing on research from the FCDO-funded Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) [...]

Summary: At its core, energy is leverage. It allows us to do more with less, and our ability to harness it has transformed society immeasurably since the Industrial Revolution. Now, as we become increasingly able to exchange energy for cognitive output, we have unlocked a new scaling vector for this leverage, one that could reshape global power structures over the [...]