46th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Energy, Climate and Sustainability: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century
Dr Arun Majumdar: Energy, Climate and Sustainability: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century
The 20th Century was marked by dramatic innovations in medical care, transportation, food production, communications, computing, aerospace technology and the built environment. The fundamental infrastructure to enable these historic changes was energy.
The use of fossil fuels and the associated greenhouse gas emissions has made this 20th century approach unsustainable.

We are now witnessing a shift of a $10T per year global energy sector undergo a once-in-a-century shift to chart a sustainable course. This talk will explore the issues in depth and breadth involved in making this shift and take stock of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of us.

Accompanying lectures will be given by Dr Amanda Smyth, Professor David Howey and Professor Malcolm McCulloch – looking at their work to help develop green and renewable energy covering wave technology, improving performances of batteries and developing a sustainable energy system for the 21st century.
Date: 17 June 2021, 19:50 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Venue: Event to be hosted virtually
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Department of Engineering Science
Organiser: Victoria Green (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: lubbock@eng.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://web.cvent.com/event/cf532602-db01-4904-872d-f1dad0efc245/summary
Booking email: lubbock@eng.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Victoria Green