Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG)

Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, 7 November 2024 from 3-4PM UK time for the fourth 2024 Michaelmas Term C-EENRG seminar in the Main Seminar Room (1.25) in the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online by registering: https://lnkd.in/dNhdBdSR In this seminar, we welcome as a speaker our very own Clara M.. She will join us in person with a talk ‘Policy interventions for sustainable food consumption.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk.   Animal-source foods are responsible for roughly 20% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and produce twice the emissions of plant-based foods, despite providing fewer calories and less protein.  Shifts to plant-based diets could lead to substantial decreases not only in greenhouse gas emissions but also in land use, water use, air pollution, and nutrient losses to the surrounding environment, among other environmental, public health, and animal welfare benefits. Financial incentives and information provision are tools that could be used to influence behaviour around food consumption, and evidence on how individuals respond to these interventions in real-world settings is important for climate and environmental policymaking. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we evaluate the effects of CO2 emissions labels and price subsidies, separately and in combination, on the meal choices of individuals in university cafeterias. Sergey Kolesnikov Laura Diaz Anadon Harro Van Asselt Jessica Crow Renatus O. F. D. Ben Chester Cheong Guido Cimadamore-Werthein Tejas Rao Trevelyan Wing, PhD Department of Land Economy Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics & Policy Gates Cambridge

Please join us next Thursday, 31 October 2024 from 3-4PM UK time for the third 2024 Michaelmas Term C-EENRG seminar in the Main Seminar Room (1.25) in the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online via the following Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/dH-dHNt4 Meeting ID: 828 8554 9056 Passcode: 861989     In this seminar, we welcome as a speaker Professor Richard Lazarus (Harvard Law School), who is currently a Visiting Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. He will join us in-person with a very timely talk ‘The challenge of climate lawmaking in the United States,’ which is intentionally tied to the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election. Please find below the abstract of the talk.   Making law to address climate change is exceedingly hard for any lawmaking system. The United States is no exception. Indeed, climate lawmaking in the United States has proven particularly hard because the manner in which climate change spreads cause and effect over enormous spatial and temporal dimensions creates redistributive challenges for which the U.S. lawmaking system is distinctively ill-suited. This includes how the Framers of the U.S. Constitution deliberately separated lawmaking authorities horizontally and vertically, and also made lawmakers subject to reelection susceptible to the short term and near-space demands of their geographically-defined constituents. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made it even harder still. These lawmaking hurdles raise the serious question whether the United States can act in time to avoid some of climate change’s worst global consequences. Fittingly, this seminar presentation will take place only a few days before the U.S. Presidential Election. Sergey Kolesnikov Laura Diaz Anadon Harro Van Asselt Jessica Crow Renatus O. F. D. Ben Chester Cheong Clara Galeazzi, PhD Clara M. Guido Cimadamore-Werthein Tejas Rao Department of Land Economy Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership

Please join us on Thursday, 17 October 2024 from 1:30PM - 2:30PM UK time for the second 2024 Michaelmas Term C-EENRG seminar (in collaboration with the Energy IRC) in West 1, West Hub, West Cambridge (no registration needed). In this seminar, we welcome as a speaker Michael Weinold, Doctoral Researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zürich in Switzerland. He will join us in-person with a talk ‘Improving emissions modeling for future air transport systems.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk. Aviation is presently responsible for 2-3% of global carbon emissions. The majority of these comes from long-distance routes, on which only liquid fuels are viable due to their high energy density. Therefore, more energy-efficient aircraft powered by non-fossil fuels are currently under development. In order to assess the economic, technical and environmental viability of these future aircraft-fuel combinations, accurate life-cycle assessment models are required. Presently, such models poorly capture the underlying aircraft physics. In order to accurately prediction future emissions, models must consider physical limits in both aircraft efficiency and fuel production pathways. Michael Weinold, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute is working on such models to improve the accuracy and precision of life-cycle assessment forecasts of future air transport systems. He will present on recent progress in dis-aggregating aircraft energy efficiency, limits for future efficiency, and hybrid approaches to life-cycle assessment of non-fossil fuels. Sergey Kolesnikov Laura Diaz Anadon Harro Van Asselt Jessica Crow Renatus O. F. D. Ben Chester Cheong Clara M. Guido Cimadamore-Werthein Tejas Rao

I'm very excited to announce the launch of the new Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis. The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling #ClimateChange. The series brings together top experts in law and climate action to discuss how different fields of law—public, private, international and domestic—intersect with climate change. It’s a unique opportunity to explore the complexities of climate law and understand how legal frameworks can drive effective solutions. The line-up for this year's series includes: Prof. Richard Lazarus (Harvard Law School), Prof. Simon Holmes (CAT/Oxford), Ruth Keating and Camilla ter Haar (39 Essex Chambers), Prof. Lauge Poulsen (UCL), Prof. Liz Fisher (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Prof. Megan Bowman (The Dickson Poon School of Law), Dr. Samuel Ruiz-Tagle and Dr. jellie molino (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge) This series is co-hosted by the Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Zero, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Cambridge Climate Society, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law & Cambridge University Law Society The series is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students, University staff, and anyone interested. I look forward to seeing you there. For more information and preregistration (for free), go to https://lnkd.in/eHrDs42x #LawforClimateAction

Another (2x) opportunity to join us at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge to support the new MSt in Climate, Environmental and Urban Policy! More information at the link below: https://lnkd.in/d6_eHq4Y

Do consider joining us at the Department of Land Economy as a Postdoctoral Research Associate! More information available at the link below: https://lnkd.in/ex9_kYQw

Please join us on Thursday, 20 June 2024 from 3-4PM UK time for the eighth 2024 Easter Term C-EENRG seminar in the Weston Seminar Room (2.49) at the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online (please register here https://lnkd.in/d979PbKd to receive the Zoom link on the day of the seminar). This week, we are delighted to welcome as a speaker Trevelyan Wing, Baltic Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and CEENRG Researcher and PhD candidate at CEENRG in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He will join us in-person with a talk ‘A transition from below? The role of citizen and community initiatives in Germany’s renewable energy revolution.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk.   This presentation explores the role of citizen/community initiatives in advancing Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ (alternatively translated as ‘energy transition’ or even ‘energy revolution’). Situating the transition in its historical context – rooted in the social movements of the 1970s – it examines how grassroots pressures prompted federal policy change, triggering complementary bottom-up/top-down dynamics that have facilitated a dramatic expansion of renewables nationwide, with over 50% of total installed renewable power generation capacity citizen-owned by the early 2010s. Changes to the Energiewende’s legal/regulatory frameworks are analyzed, as subsequent governments sought to control the growth of renewables and adjust the transition’s building blocks to prioritize market-oriented instruments, despite stiff opposition from below. Drawing on over 100 semi-structured interviews conducted with stakeholders involved in the Energiewende, among diverse other sources, this presentation sheds further light on the impact of ‘energy democracy’ initiatives in the evolution of this multidecadal transformation. Here, it contributes a fresh perspective regarding the interrelated nexus of sustained grassroots action, evolving policy, and shifting sociopolitical realities that form the context in which Germany’s Energiewende has been (re)launched, reformed, and reimagined over the decades.

Congratulations Clara Galeazzi, PhD!

Please join us on Thursday, 13 June 2024 from 12-1PM UK time for the seventh 2024 Easter Term C-EENRG seminar in the Main Seminar Room (1.25) at the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online (please register here https://lnkd.in/d979PbKd to receive the Zoom link on the day of the seminar). This week, we are delighted to welcome as a speaker Jorge Ossandón Rosales, Universidad de Chile. He will join us in-person with a talk ‘Delivering the European Green Deal in the energy sector: Between regulatory and competition law.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk.   More or less regulation? More or less market? These questions cross several sectors of the European economy. The electricity market is no exception. From an era of state monopolies, through mixed models, to the complete liberalization of certain sectors of the energy market such as generation, this evolution has been justified by the reduction of monopoly inefficiencies and the increase of general welfare, mainly through the reduction of prices for system players. This has not been possible without a legal framework and rules that establish obligations for market players. In the design and control of these rules, EU member states move between regulatory law and competition law. This presentation aims to show how this evolution has taken place with the conflicts between areas of law that are not always compatible. The idea that the electricity market should move towards competition law as a pillar of its functioning is promoted, taking as an example the so-called ex-post models in the electricity industry of Sweden and Finland.   Laura Diaz Anadon Sergey Kolesnikov Harro Van Asselt Markus Gehring Clara M. Pau de Vilchez Moragues (PhD) Aiora Zabala Guido Cimadamore-Werthein Jessica Crow Tejas Rao Ben Chester Cheong Renatus O. F. D. Raifa Al Maamari Vassilis Gkoumas Thea J. Jeremy Marand Sol Meckievi Trevelyan Wing Qi Liu

Please join us on Thursday, 6 June 2024 from 4-5PM UK time for the fourth 2024 Easter Term C-EENRG seminar in the Weston Seminar Room (2.49) at the David Attenborough Building (no registration needed) or online (please register here https://lnkd.in/d979PbKd to receive the Zoom link on the day of the seminar). We are delighted to welcome we are delighted to welcome as a speaker Francesco Scarazzato, PhD candidate at the WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He will join us in-person with a talk ‘Causal effects of adverse temperature shocks on schooling outcomes in India.’ Please find below the abstract of the talk.   Do extreme weather events adversely affect the educational outcomes of kids in India? To address this question, we link records from primary school exams with information on local weather conditions, with a special focus on extreme heat. Preliminary results show that a constant increase in temperature by merely 0.5°C means a drop in the number of students passing the exam by 2% and a drop in the number of highest grades of almost 15%, hinting towards a sizable potential loss in human capital. The effect on the probability of passing the exam is increasingly negative for higher temperature brackets, and the effect is largest for days with a maximum temperature above 40°C. Furthermore, we show evidence that vegetation in the proximity of schools has a strong mitigating effect. These findings suggest that increasing vegetation in the vicinity of schools may foster adaptation to expected long-term changes in climate. Sergey Kolesnikov Laura Diaz Anadon Harro Van Asselt Markus Gehring Clara M. Pau de Vilchez Moragues (PhD) Aiora Zabala Guido Cimadamore-Werthein Jessica Crow Tejas Rao Ben Chester Cheong Raifa Al Maamari Vassilis Gkoumas Thea J. Jeremy Marand Trevelyan Wing Sol Meckievi Qi Liu