The UK’s energy needs and related legal and policy framework

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Join our event hosted by the climate change and energy working party with Sir Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. (online)

 

 

Join our webinar for a discussion on the subject of the UK’s energy needs and the legal and policy framework required to address those needs. 

About our speaker

Sir Dieter Helm

Sir Dieter Helm

Sir Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. From 2012 to 2020, he was Independent Chair of the Natural Capital Committee, providing advice to the government on the sustainable use of natural capital.  In the New Year 2021 Honours List, Dieter was awarded a knighthood for services to the environment, energy and utilities policy.

He has written many books, most recently Net Zero (September 2020, William Collins) in which he addresses the action we all need to take to tackle the climate emergency. He is currently writing a new book on The Sustainable Economy. 

His other books include: Green & Prosperous Land  (2019, William Collins), Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels  (2017), The Carbon Crunch: Revised and Updated (2015) and Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet  (2016), all published by Yale University Press.

Dieter has provided extensive advice to UK and European governments, including The Cost of Energy Review for the UK government in October 2017 and for the European Commission in preparing the Energy Roadmap 2030. He served both as a special advisor to the European Commissioner for Energy and as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Roadmap. He also assisted the Polish government in its presidency of the European Union Council.

Dieter is Honorary Vice President of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

 

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UKELA members - free

Non-members - £10

Students and unwaged - free

 
When
28/03/2023 17:30 - 18:30
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