PUBLIC EVENT
The Royal Academy of Engineering is holding a public lecture in the Arts Building of the University of Birmingham on Thursday 7 November. The lecture will be given by Professor John Loughhead CB OBE FREng, Industrial Professor of Clean Energy at University of Birmingham, and former Chief Scientific Adviser (BEIS), on "The challenges of net zero".
In the five years since the UK formally committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, progress in reductions has been matched by continued debate about how to complete the journey. The new Government’s election manifesto included statements about their approach to achieving the aims but many of these are yet to be reflected in formal policies. What are the challenges they will need to address, which can be solved by engineering, and have we the means to deliver solutions?
Programme*
| 5.00pm | Registration opens and refreshments are served |
| 5.30pm |
The challenges of net zero Public lecture by Professor John Loughhead CB OBE FREng |
| 6.30pm |
Close of event |
*subject to change
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Professor John Loughhead CB OBE FREng
John Loughhead spent six years as Chief Scientific Adviser to both the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change and the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy. He was previously Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and Vice-President Technology & Intellectual Property for the Alstom group. John is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the UK, China and Australia Academies of Engineering and of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers and Past-President of the UK Institution of Engineering & Technology. He is currently Professor of Clean Energy at the University of Birmingham, Chair of the Redwheel-Turquoise ClimateTech Fund and of the Low Carbon Innovation Fund, member of the Governing Council of the University of York, and has several other public and private sector advisory roles.