Seminar: Aviation, shipping and the climate change challenge in Kilburn L.T 1.5
| Dates: | 4 December 2019 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Computer Science |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Alice Larkin |
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Join us for the next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Professor Alice Larkin on Wednesday 4 December 2019 at 2pm in Kilburn L.T 1.5
In 2015 nations came together to draft the Paris Climate Agreement. The Agreement was developed in line with the scientific understanding of how growing greenhouse gas concentrations are leading to a rise global mean surface temperature, and associated environmental and social impacts. To limit this rise to less than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, the growing trend in global annual emissions of carbon dioxide emissions from the energy system needs to be reversed urgently, with all fossil fuel sectors needed to contribute. While individual nations are the principal governance level to mitigate emissions, a large proportion of aviation and shipping CO2 production falls outside of national jurisdiction, yet contributes around the same amount of CO2 globally as the whole of South America. The limited governance around their emission production sees their CO2 continuing to grow rapidly, with relatively weak incentives to develop low-carbon technologies and practices to mitigate their impacts. In our research, we consider technologies, operational practices and demand-side opportunities for mitigating CO2 from aviation and shipping in line with the Paris Agreement goals. For aviation, the timeframe for fleet-wide improvements severely limits rapid technological change, meaning demand management must be a part of the policy portfolio for decarobnising this sector. Shipping has a plethora of innovations, including applying weather routing with wind-propulsion to existing ships, but mechanisms to incentivise change in the timeframe dictated by the Paris Agreement are lacking. This seminar will explore the challenges faced in decarbonising aviation and shipping, and highlight available options given the scale and urgency of the Paris framing of climate change.
Speaker
Professor Alice Larkin
Role: Professor of Climate Science & Energy Policy
Organisation: University of Manchester
Travel and Contact Information
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1.5
Kilburn Building
Manchester
