Energy Futures Seminar: Potential Pathways to Decarbonisation

Melbourne City at night
Image licensed using Creative Commons BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode. Original by Lenny K, available here: https://flic.kr/p/xVf8iE

Public Lecture Theatre (PLT)
Old Arts, Building 149
Parkville

Map

More Information

Caitlin McGrane

caitlin.mcgrane@unimelb.edu.au

T: +61 3 9035 9458

The global community has committed to deep decarbonisation by mid-century. Yet, it is far from clear how we might get there, despite the progress made through last December’s Paris Agreement. This Energy Futures Seminar will explore potential decarbonisation pathways. Hear from our panel featuring Jeremy Bentham, the lead on Shell's recently published plan to achieve net-zero emissions and transform four sectors of the energy system: power, industry, transport and buildings. Jeremy will be joined by Sara Bice, Ross Garnaut and Tony Wood in a panel discussion to be followed by Q&A with the audience.

Moderator

Sara Bice is Director, Research Translation at the Melbourne School of Government. With a decade of experience assisting private firms, non-profits and government agencies to plan and advance their sustainable development agendas, Sara's research explores social responsibility and sustainability in light of community, corporate and government interactions, with a strong focus on mining and extractives industries. Sara is committed to creating shared value for communities and companies through evidence-based decision-making, risk management and strong stakeholder engagement.

Speakers

Jeremy Bentham leads Shell’s Global Business Environment team, a core corporate strategy activity best known outside the company for developing the Shell Scenarios. He graduated from Oxford University, and joined Shell in 1980 following post-graduate experience at the California Institute of Technology. He also holds a masters degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow. Following experience in research, technology, and industry analysis, he held management positions at several refineries. After managing corporate strategy analysis for Shell, Jeremy joined the leadership of Shell’s global technology company, and subsequently served as chief executive of Shell Hydrogen before becoming head of Shell Scenarios.

Professor Ross Garnaut is a Melbourne Energy Institute Fellow and a Professorial Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne.  He is the author of numerous publications in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Recent books include The Great Crash of 2008 (with David Llewellyn-Smith, 2009) and Dog Days: Australia After the Boom (2013). Professor Garnaut has had longstanding and successful roles as policy advisor, diplomat and businessman. He was the senior economic policy official in Papua New Guinea’s Department of Finance in the years straddling Independence in 1975, principal economic adviser to Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke 1983-1985, and Australian Ambassador to China 1985-1988.  He is the author of a number of influential reports to the Australian Government, including Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendancy, The Garnaut Climate Change Review, and The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia and the Global Response to Climate Change.

Tony Wood has been Energy Program Director at Grattan since 2011 after 14 years working at Origin Energy in senior executive roles. From 2009 to 2014 he was also Program Director of Clean Energy Projects at the Clinton Foundation, advising governments in the Asia-Pacific region on effective deployment of large-scale, low-emission energy technologies. In 2008, he was seconded to provide an industry perspective to the first Garnaut climate change review.

Receive the latest in energy news from across the University Subscribe here