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Conference Programme
Monday, 26 September
Time
8.00-9.00
Registration
9.00-9.15
Welcome
Shulman Auditorium
Elisa Arond and Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), conference co-chairs
9.15-10.30
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Michael Lazarus, SEI
Keynote speaker:
- Christophe McGlade, International Energy Agency (IEA)
What does the global energy crisis mean for net zero?
Panel:
- Jesse Burton, University of Cape Town
- Nemonte Nenquimo, Amazon Frontlines
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.15
Parallel sessions
Memorial room
Moderator: Ximena Warnaars, Ford Foundation
- Nonhle Mbuthuma, Amadiba Crisis Committee (South Africa)
Umhlaba Ngawethu, Amandla Ngawethu: the power of solidarity between nature and people Xolobeni - Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch
Informing Indigenous-led opposition strategies with supply chain research - Johan Lorenzen, Richard Spoor Inc, Attorneys (South Africa)
Land first and the rest followed: Reflecting on lawyers’ modest role in the amadiba struggle - Kate Horner, Amazon Frontlines
The right to refuse in international and national law: Indigenous resistance to extraction through self-determination
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Natalie Jones, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
- Benjamin Franta, University of Oxford
A new initiative to inform global climate litigation through research - Yamina Saheb, Sciences Po Paris
The Energy Charter Treaty: is it modernisable? - Lea Di Salvatore, University of Nottingham
The role of international investment law in protecting fossil fuel investments - Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists
The space between science and climate litigation: a decade of learning
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Roberto Schaeffer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Alexandre Szklo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro School of Engineering
Stranded crude oil resources and refineries carbon lock-in: why do climate ambitions, crude oil quality and refineries matter - Christian Hauenstein, Europa-Universität Flensburg
Stranded assets in the coal export ndustry? The case of the Australian Galilee Basin - Steve Pye, University College London (presenting in lieu of Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Inter-American Development Bank)
High and dry: stranded natural gas reserves and fiscal revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean - Salaheddine Soummane, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
Impacts of global climate policies on Middle Eastern oil exporters: a review of economic implications and mitigation strategies
12.15-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.45
Parallel sessions
Memorial Room
Moderator: Peter Newell, University of Sussex
- Clemens Kaupa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Challenging fossil advertising under consumer law - Cara Pike, Climate Access (US)
Framing fossil fuel supply issues - Chris Garrard, Culture Unstained (UK)
Taking the logos down: from oil sponsorship to fossil free culture - Joachim Peter Tilsted, Lund University
Narrating decarbonisation: stories of climate action in the petrochemical industry
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Angela Carter, University of Waterloo
- Valérie Marcel, Chatham House
Charting the challenges faced by emerging oil and gas producers in a highly competitive and warming world - Kalim Shah, University of Delaware
Institutional structuration for Enhanced low-carbon development transitions in the Guianas shield producer countries - Fergus Green, University College London
No New Fossil Fuel Projects - Max Cohen, University of British Columbia
Peripheral transitions: governing the Shetland Islands' energy transitions from oil era to the UK's first "green energy island" - Michele Bustamante, National Resources Defense Council
From ‘status quo’ to ‘climate goals’: advancing the state of US energy infrastructure reviews with a science-based climate test tool
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Paul Ekins, University College London
- Kjell Kühne, Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO) and University of Leeds School of Geography
Towards defusing carbon bombs - Marianne Zanon Zotin, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
The non-energy use of oil: long-term scenarios of the chemical industry in a global energy and materials transition - Olivier Bois von Kursk, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Energy Transition Scenarios Report - Steve Pye, University College London
Global insights for O&G production decline in the UK - Franziska Holz, DIW Berlin
Infrastructure for global natural gas trade: demand shifts and stranded assets
14.45-15.15
Coffee break
15.15-16.30
Parallel sessions
Memorial Room
Moderator: Elisa Arond, SEI
- Jennie Stephens, Northeastern University
Feminist, antiracist leadership for climate justice: resisting climate isolationism to end fossil fuel reliance - Oscar Santiago Vargas Guevara, Network of Community Initiatives (RICO) (Colombia)
Gender, territory, sovereignty: feminist outlooks from below for just energy transitions - Andrea Cardoso Diaz, Universidad del Magdalena
Ecofeminist the root to fossil fuel resistance in Colombia - Brototi Roy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institute of Environmental Science and Technology
When our food is gone, can we eat coal? Women ́s resistance against coal in India
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Fredric Bauer, Lund University
- Andrea Furnaro, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) (US)
Pemex and the energy transition - Mathieu Blondeel, Warwick Business School
Will it stay in the ground? Studying asset divestments by international oil companies - Balasubramanian Viswanathan, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
State-owning the energy transition: risks and diversification strategies for coal sector SOEs in India - Max Åhman, Lund University
Diversifying petrostates by investing down-stream the fossil value chain – extending the carbon lock-in? - Patricio Calles Almeida, SEI
All in: comparing progress on low-carbon fossil fuel supply strategies
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI
- Fatih Uenal, University of Geneva
Machine learning classification of supply-side fossil fuel policies - Pietro Andreoni, Politecnico di Milano / RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
A multi-model assessment of the interplay between fossil-extraction bans and demand-side policies in ambitious mitigation scenarios - Nicolas Gaulin, Wageningen University & Research
Determinants of fossil fuel production cuts and implications for an international supply-side agreement - Daniel Horen Greenford, Concordia University
Climate testing fossil fuel supply and infrastructure
16.30-16.45
Break
16.45-17.00
Shulman Auditorium
- Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
17.00-18.15
Plenary: Leadership for just, orderly phase out of oil and gas supply – Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) (at 15:09 in the video)
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Glada Lahn, Chatham House
- Sian Bradley, Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
- Jeppe Helsted, Government of Denmark
- Ed Sherriff, Government of Wales
- Cat Abreu, Destination Zero
18.15-19.00
Networking drinks
Tuesday, 27 September
Time
9.00-10.30
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Jesse Burton, University of Cape Town
- Isabel Blanco, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Multilateral development banks’ common approach to a just transition - Raditya Wiranegara, Institute for Essential Services Reform (Indonesia)
Framework to assess the implications of an ccelerated and just coal power phaseout in support of Indonesia’s 2050 net-zero emission target - Claudia Strambo, SEI
Geopolitics of carbon lock-in in fossil fuel-dependent developing countries: case studies of Colombia and Nigeria - Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) (South Africa)
A policy toolbox for just transitions in the Global South - Elias Spiekermann, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (Germany)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.15
Parallel sessions
Memorial Room
Opening Talk: Felipe Sanchez, SEI, What does ‘just transitions’ mean for oil and gas?
- Karl Sperling, Aalborg University
Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: Denmark - Camilla Houeland, University of Oslo
Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: Norway - Kirsten Jenkins, University of Edinburgh
Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: UK / Scotland - Valérie Marcel, Chatham House
Can the North Sea become a global blueprint to accelerate oil and gas phase out?
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Natalie Jones, IISD
Mapping fossil fuel production in Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-term Low Emissions Development Strategies under the UNFCCC. - Peter Newell, University of Sussex
Building a fossil fuel Non Proliferation Treaty: key elements - Johnny West, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Accounting without records: the case for a public registry of fossil fuel emissions - Rebecca Byrnes, Australian National University
Legal pathways to a fossil fuel treaty - Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia
The international political economy of fossil fuel supply
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Richard Denniss, The Australia Institute
- Mark Campanale and Mike Coffin, Carbon Tracker Initiative
The critical path to net zero - Ingrid Udd Sundvor, Oxford University
Using the carbon takeback obligation to help phase out fossil energy production - Lennart Stern, Paris School of Economics
Proportionally matching voluntary contributions to institutions rewarding countries for reducing the supply and the demand of coal and oil - Iain Steel, Econias (UK)
So you want to quit producing fossil fuels? Putting the manage in "managed decline" - Klaus Eisenack, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Buy coal and gas? Interfuel carbon leakage on deposit markets with market power
12.15-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.45
Parallel sessions
Memorial Room
Moderator: Leo Roberts, E3G
- Libo Chen, University of Southampton
Drivers behind coal pushback after crisis - José Vega-Araújo, SEI
A just transition for coal producing regions and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): a case study from Colombia - Pao-Yu Oei, Europa-Universität Flensburg
Lacking ambitious climate policy: The collaborative governance experience of coal commissions - Gareth Edwards, University of East Anglia
'Just coal' or a 'just transition'? Understanding how justice arguments structure debates about coal in Australia - Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra, Technische Universität Berlin
Why a short-term relapse to coal could put exporting countries at risk
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Claudia Strambo, SEI
- Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI
Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution from the oil and gas supply chain in Texas - Felix Zaussinger, ETH Zurich
The impact of the green transition on the European labour market - Timothy Donaghy, Greenpeace USA
Fossil fuel racism - Martí Orta-Martínez, University of Barcelona
The atlas of unburnable oil: spatial criteria for supply-side climate policies
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Frank Jotzo, Australian National University
- Emily Budgen and Ellen Quigley, University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Climate and decarbonisation: Investment impact across asset classes and supply-focused decarbonisation methodologies - Igor Shishlov, Perspectives Climate Group
Aligning officially supported export finance with the Paris Agreement - Amanda Schockling, Climate & Company (Germany)
Climate finance options to enabling a coal transition - Truzaar Dordi, University of Waterloo
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels - Bronwen Tucker, Oil Change International
Still digging: G20 governments continue to finance the climate crisis / Past last call: G20 public finance institutions are still bankrolling fossil fuels
14.45-15.15
Coffee break
15.15-16.30
Parallel sessions
Memorial Room
Moderator: Cleo Verkuijl, SEI
- Felipe Corral Montoya, TU Berlin / Europa Universität Flensburg
Change everything so that nothing changes: what the reconfiguration of extractivism in Colombian fossil fuel extracting regions can teach us about energy transitions in the Global South - Joshua Axelrod, Natural Resources Defense Council
Transitions within bounds: options for fossil dependent economies within existing legal frameworks - Julia Schwab, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen
The blinkers of planning for climate change: Why the just energy transition is failing in extractivist states - Emiliano Castillo Jara, University of Trier
Competing notions of energy justice around tar sands development in Canada - Claire Fyson, Climate Analytics
Unpacking fossil gas as a bridging fuel: A case study of Western Australia
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Stefan Bößner, SEI
- Florian Egli, ETH Zurich
The politics of phasing out petroleum production: Party positions and voter reactions in Norway - Christian Downie, Australian National University
Following the money: trade associations, political activity and climate change - Guri Bang, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Oil Politics Is Local: Comparing the Causes and Effects of Anti-Fossil Fuel Mobilisations in the UK and Norway - James Price, UCL Energy Institute
Bridging the credibility gap between energy scenarios and energy geopolitics - Laura Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists
Climate risk disclosure and disinformation in the US
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Alexandre Szklo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro School of Engineering
- Gregory Trencher, Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
Keeping one’s fossil fuel cake while eating it: comparing proposed pathways to net-zero by BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell - Shinichiro Asayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies
Can carbon removal technologies be compatible with the managed decline of fossil fuels? - Naadira Ogeer, Commonwealth Secretariat
FDP and net zero projects: acting today to advance an equitable energy transition - Kathy Mulvey, Union of Concerned Scientists
Net zero and fossil fuel company accountability: burning questions - Polly Hemming, The Australia Institute
Net-zero fraud: How carbon markets conceal Australia’s fossil fuel expansionism
16.30-16.45
Break