CET Lunch: Anticipating energy transitions as if both technology and politics mattered.
Welcome to our hybrid CET Lunch seminar with Jessica Jewell, Professor, Chalmers University and Professor II at CET.
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Our speaker will attend in person.聽Participants can sign up and tune in via stream, or turn up at CET where lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reaching climate targets requires unprecedented policy efforts, yet how much effort is required to implement different climate solutions is unclear, particularly given the co-evolving technological and political systems involved. In this talk, I formulate the concept of policy effort and begin to unpack how we can scientifically examine it. I then illustrate how policy effort can be examined in a way that considers both the politics and technological change associated with transitions using examples from coal phase-out, renewables expansion, and the potential takeoff of carbon capture and storage.
About the speaker
Jessica Jewell is Professor in Energy Transitions at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers University and a Professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the feasibility of climate action and quantifying the dynamics and mechanisms of energy transitions using a variety of disciplinary approaches and methods. She is a recipient of a European Research Council's Starting Grant as well as the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council and a leader of work packages in collaborative research projects supported by European and Swedish funding agencies.