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Abstract
Over the past ten years, renewable energy production has almost doubled worldwide, but renewables make up only 14% of the global energy mix. The challenge ahead is huge: reducing emissions 80% by 2050 will require almost total decarbonisation of electricity production plus an increase in supply to cope with the electrification of sectors like space heating and transport.
Alongside the challenge is the opportunity from commercialising new renewables. But is the UK able to take advantages of these opportunities? Do we need more facilities and better infrastructure, or does the key to commercialisation lie elsewhere? Jane Burston will give her perspective on these issues and your questions, in her talk about how the commercialisation of new renewables is dependent on things you might not expect.
Biography
Jane is Head of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory, the UK’s national measurement institute, where she is responsible for managing the work of 120 scientists on climate science, emissions monitoring and low carbon technologies. Jane is a Trustee of the campaigning NGO Sandbag, a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council’s London Doctoral Training Programme, and a member of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Urbanisation.
Previously Jane was Founder and CEO of Carbon Retirement, a social enterprise reforming emissions trading and carbon offsetting. In 2011 she was named in Management Today’s ‘35 high-flying women under 35’ list and as Square Mile magazine’s ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’, in 2012 as Management Today’s top ‘Non-profiteer’ and more recently as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.