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Webinar | Decoupling energy production and use from climate impact – a tale of many worlds
05 November 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
With increasing world energy demand and environmental concerns intensifying, policy makers, industry, academics and NGOs are involved in heated debates aimed at securing ambitious 2030 GHG emissions reduction targets focusing on climate change mitigation.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Nelia Jurado Pontes on behalf of UCL Mechanical Engineering's Energy and Environment Research Division. – Mechanical Engineering
About the webinar
With increasing world energy demand and environmental concerns intensifying, policy makers, industry, academics and NGOs are involved in heated debates aimed at securing ambitious 2030 GHG emissions reduction targets focusing on climate change mitigation.
All agree that an accelerated rate of change in our energy systems is needed, coupled with deep decarbonisation; however, the pathway to achieve this is proving difficult to agree.
The talk will present evidence from several studies focusing on power and chemicals production from coal and natural gas resources and discuss their GHG footprints. The life cycle assessment methodologies and tools (ICLCA) developed at Imperial College have been used to assess CO2, CH4 and other emissions across a large range of industry value chains including decarbonisation options. The environmental performance and economics of emissions abatement options available are examined considering engineering system specifics.
Our work has proven that policy makers should consider whole systems issues in order to effectively identify which value chains or regions offer comparatively lower GHG footprints, and that it is necessary to perform value chain specific studies, using real operational data at unit process granularity to assess this. Requirements for emissions monitoring, reporting and verification will be discussed in this light.
- Image caption: A road sign reading "Carbon Neutrality" and pointing to the right
- Image credit: Unsplash.
Please note, this webinar is open to everyone, but is aimed at an academic audience. No registration is required.
About the Speaker
Prof Anna Korre
Prof Anna Korre is the Co-Director of Energy Futures Lab and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
Professor Korre joined Imperial in October 1993 as a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow and completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 1997. Having been promoted to Professor, she became Energy Futures Lab’s first female Co-Director in September 2018. EFL is the College’s energy institute, established in 2005 to address global energy challenges by identifying and leading new opportunities to serve industry, government and society at large. Anna also heads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group, developing engineering solutions to the supply of clean energy, the sustainable production of natural resources, and mitigating environmental impacts and risks. Her research focus is in the areas of modelling risk and uncertainty and the environmental and life cycle assessment of engineering systems. She has led and participated in numerous industry, UKRI, BEIS, The Crown Estate and EU funded projects developing engineering tools to assess the impacts of the minerals and energy industries in terms of operational performance, environmental footprint and cost.