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SUMMARY:Seminar: Aviation\, shipping and the climate change challenge in 
 Kilburn L.T 1.5
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Pr
 ofessor Alice Larkin on Wednesday 4 December 2019 at 2pm in Kilburn L.T 
 1.5\n\n\n\n\nIn 2015 nations came together to draft the Paris Climate Ag
 reement. The Agreement was developed in line with the scientific underst
 anding of how growing greenhouse gas concentrations are leading to a ris
 e global mean surface temperature\, and associated environmental and soc
 ial impacts. To limit this rise to less than 2 degrees C above pre-indus
 trial levels\, the growing trend in global annual emissions of carbon di
 oxide emissions from the energy system needs to be reversed urgently\, w
 ith all fossil fuel sectors needed to contribute. While individual natio
 ns are the principal governance level to mitigate emissions\, a large pr
 oportion of aviation and shipping CO2 production falls outside of nation
 al jurisdiction\, yet contributes around the same amount of CO2 globally
  as the whole of South America. The limited governance around their emis
 sion production sees their CO2 continuing to grow rapidly\, with relativ
 ely weak incentives to develop low-carbon technologies and practices to 
 mitigate their impacts. In our research\, we consider technologies\, ope
 rational practices and demand-side opportunities for mitigating CO2 from
  aviation and shipping in line with the Paris Agreement goals. For aviat
 ion\, the timeframe for fleet-wide improvements severely limits rapid te
 chnological change\, meaning demand management must be a part of the pol
 icy 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 t
 he challenges faced in decarbonising aviation and shipping\, and highlig
 ht available options given the scale and urgency of the Paris framing of
  climate change. \n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:1.5\, Kilburn Building\, Manchester
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