Dr Arun Majumdar: Energy, Climate and Sustainability: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century
The 20th Century was marked by dramatic innovations in medical care, transportation, food production, communications, computing, aerospace technology and the built environment. The fundamental infrastructure to enable these historic changes was energy.
The use of fossil fuels and the associated greenhouse gas emissions has made this 20th century approach unsustainable.

We are now witnessing a shift of a $10T per year global energy sector undergo a once-in-a-century shift to chart a sustainable course. This talk will explore the issues in depth and breadth involved in making this shift and take stock of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of us.

Accompanying lectures will be given by Dr Amanda Smyth, Professor David Howey and Professor Malcolm McCulloch – looking at their work to help develop green and renewable energy covering wave technology, improving performances of batteries and developing a sustainable energy system for the 21st century.