The conference explored a wide range of cutting-edge topics in sustainable energy - including community perspectives of wind energy, large-scale CO2 storage, green methanol, circular economy and more.
Program
10:00-11:05 Opening session
- Welcome by Vebj?rn Bakken, director at UiO:Energy and Environment
- Opening by pro-rector Bj?rn Jamtveit
- Keynote: Steffen Kallbekken, Research Director for the climate economics group, CICERO, "International climate policy development"
- Keynote: Solrun Figenschau Skjellum, Chief Development Officer (CDO) at NIVA, "Renewable energy & climate goals vs area & nature use: a necessary balancing act"
- Q&A with the audience
11:05-11:20 Short break
11:20-12:15 Energy transition and the environment
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Chris Erik Mohn, researcher at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry and participant in the thematic research group DENT, "How can atomistic simulations contribute to the energy and climate transition?"
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Marianne Zeyringer and Maja van der Velden, project leader and member of the convergence environment EMPOWER, “Sustainable EV batteries? Insights from the EMPOWER project”
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Andrea Joslyn Nightingale, professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and principal investigator of the thematic research group UNRULY SUSTAINABILITY, "Unruliness in Energy Systems: Governing for an Uncertain Future"
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Stephen Gary Williams, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, provided an artistic contribution.
12:15-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Student pitching competition
- Eli Holm H?gemo and Ragnhild Sickel. Master students involved with a summer project. "Scandinavian climate during the little ice age: did a volcanic eruption trigger Norway's largest flood?"
- Benjamin Kobbevik, master student at the Department of psychology "Unlocking Electric Vehicle (EV) Potential: Psychology and Norway’s Energy Transition"
- Muhammad Salman, doctoral research fellow at the Section for Energy Systems. "Green Hydrogen from Air"
- King Men Teoh, doctoral research fellow at the Department of private law, "Pillars of the Green Transition: The Legal Imperative for a Circular EV Battery Value Chain"
- Julie Brun, doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. "Waste to Fuel"
- Rigas Karampasis, master student involved with a summer project. "Current Currents' Currencies: Making Balancing Markets Audible in Norwegian Hydropower"
- Lee Xun, master student at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. "Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) as a cathode material for Li-ion batteries"
- Josephine McGarvey, An Diep Vo, Andrea Provenzano and J?han Utnes. Master students involved with a summer project. “A Digital Minerals Library for the Twin Transition”
14:00-15:00 People, society and climate
- Ingar Stene, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and participant in the thematic research group NORCLI, “Human-climate interactions: What can be learned from the 1690s crisis?”
- Guillermo Andrés Valenzuela Venegas, researcher at the Section for Energy systems and member of the research project SAMVIND, "Designing a methodology for integrating community perspectives of wind energy into energy system modelling"
- Shahzad Javed, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Technology Systems and participant in the thematic research group Energy for Future, "How can youth perspectives shape Norway's 2050 electricity system?"
- Juliana Jia Yu Zhang, doctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology and participant in the convergence environment PriTEM, "Participatory transition, psychological aspects from PriTEM"
15:00-15:20 Short break
15:20-16:30 A carbon-neutral society
- Henrik Hovland Svensen, Professor - Crustal Processes, Department of Geosciences and Head of the VISTA Centre VICCO, "Mineral trapping of CO2"
- Ken Luca Abel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Catalysis and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and participant in the thematic research group ABiME, "Upgrading biogas into green methanol – the ABiME project approach"
- Maja Van Der Velden, professor at the Department of Informatics and coordinator of the Sustainability Lab.
- Conversation led by Vebj?rn Bakken:
- Mali Hole Skogen, Technology and sustainability director of TEK Norway
- Maja Van Der Velden, professor at the Department of Informatics and coordinator of the Sustainability Lab, "A carbon-neutral society?"
16:30-17:00 Closing remarks
- The RESULTS research group wraps up the conference with an interactive exercise on sustainability and presentation of their main findings
17:00-19:00 Dinner and mingling
- At Toppsenteret, Oslo Science Park