Cambridge University Energy Network Film Night: Fuel

20:00 Monday, 12th December. Clubroom, Wolfson College.

In collaboration with Wolfson Arts Film Society.

We would like to invite you to our next film night. In collaboration with the Wolfson Arts Film Society, we will be screening "Fuel", a 2008 documentary film directed by Josh Tickell. The director takes the audience along for his 11 year journey around the world to find alternatives to fossil fuel, presenting an interesting perspective on biodiesel.

CUEN committee

Cambridge University Energy Network Michaelmas Seminar 2011: Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy

18:30 Monday, 21st November. Lecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering.

Here comes our first Seminar of the academic year:
"Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy"

Dr Michael Pollitt
(Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

Abstract
In the Seminar, we will discuss the nature of the economic reality of energy and climate policy in the UK and the EU. We will cover four issues. First, the implications of the ongoing fiscal and economic crisis for the viability of climate change mitigation investments. Second, the game theory of climate negotiations and the likelihood of reaching a global agreement on substantial global emissions cuts. Third, the economic confusion in the current mix of carbon and renewables targets. And finally, the economic implications of energy and climate policy for households in the UK. I will conclude that the inconvenient reality is that achieving the UK's and the EU's energy and climate targets for 2020 and beyond currently looks economically impossible.

The CUEN Seminar "Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy" given by Dr Michael Pollitt (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) on Monday 21th November 2011 is now available online."

Cambridge University Energy Network Film Night

20:00 Monday 7th November. Roger Needham room, W block, Wolfson College

In collaboration with Wolfson Arts Film Society.