As part of the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC), Cambridge Zero co-hosted this virtual conference 29-30 June 2021: Pathways to net zero emissions and carbon/climate neutrality
Many countries have now set targets for net zero emissions, or carbon/climate neutrality, by the middle of this century. However, the pathways to achieving targets for net zero emissions and carbon/climate neutrality have yet to be clearly set out, and substantive research and analysis on which to base them is still required. As countries now work on their plans for such pathways, the GAUC held this virtual event at which researchers from member institutions presented their latest research findings on this issue, and discussed the implications of their results for policymakers.
All the pre-recorded presentations and the live session recordings are available on the conference website.
Programme
The live discussion sessions consisted of the following panellists.
Tuesday 29 June 2021
11:00-12:00 Policymakers session
Chair: Nicholas Stern
Presenters:
- John Kerry (Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States)
- Xie Zhenhua (Special Envoy for Climate Change, China)
- Patricia Espinosa (Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
- Alok Sharma (President of COP26)
- Laurence Tubiana (Chief Executive, European Climate Foundation)
12:00-13:00 Net zero technologies
- Anasuya Gangopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science)
- Frank Jotzo (Australian National University)
- Rupert Myers (Imperial College London)
- Brand Wessels (Stellenbosch University)
- Xiu Yang (Tsinghua University)
- Romildo Toledo Filho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
13:00-14:00 Net zero and carbon neutrality in the United States and China
- Fan Dai (University of California Berkeley)
- Daniel Esty (Yale University)
- Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
- Chunping Xie (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Judy Jingwei Xie (Imperial College London)
Wednesday 30 June 2021
12:00-13:00 Net zero pathways and policies
- Myles Allen (University of Oxford)
- Ryoichi Komiyama (University of Tokyo)
- Bronwyn Claire (University of Cambridge)
- Guy Midgley (Stellenbosch University)
- Ashwin Seshadri (Indian Institute of Science)
- Steven Barrett (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
13:00-14:00 Net zero, growth and justice
- Laura Diaz Anadon (University of Cambridge)
- James Dixon (University of Oxford)
- Daniel Kammen (University of California Berkeley)
- Bernard Reber (Sciences Po)
- Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics and Political Science)
