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Speaker: Professor Shaoqing Chen, Professor & Associate Dean, Institute of Carbon Neutrality and Green Development, Sun Yat-sen University | Senior Visiting Scholar, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Abstract: Voluntary carbon markets have emerged as a pivotal mechanism for incentivizing global emission reduction efforts. We quantify the mitigation potential of China’s dominant voluntary carbon trading mechanisms, covering ongoing major projects in forestry carbon sinks, waste clothing reuse, distributed photovoltaics, and energy-saving devices, along with extended approaches that are anticipated from 2021 to 2060. We show that adopting extended methods would notably augment current mitigation outcomes. While these approaches may lower carbon prices, they can reduce the economic burden on industries compared to the compliance carbon market, without jeopardizing the nation’s carbon neutrality goals. A targeted policy design can further address diverse social needs, delivering co-benefits such as improved public welfare and reduced urban-rural inequality.

There is no need to register if you plan to attend the seminar in person. However, if you would like to join the seminar online via Zoom, please register via the link. Upon registering your interest in this form, you will receive an e-mail with the Zoom meeting link ON THE DAY OF THE SEMINAR. Entering your name and organisational affiliation is optional. Your details will only be used to send you the Zoom meeting link and will not be shared with any external parties.

Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) series

Do you have an idea that you think could make a real impact?

Is your research generating ideas or innovations that you think other people might want to use – perhaps a method, material, technology, software, or dataset? Are you wondering how to take it further?

Part of the University, Cambridge Enterprise works with you to help turn your ideas into reality for the benefit of society.

Register: IP & Commercialisation 101 - Registration form – Cambridge Enterprise

*Please note: this event is only open to current staff and postgraduate students of the University of Cambridge.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore or are already working on a promising idea, this workshop will help you understand how your research could be translated into real-world benefit. This session brings together insights from our IP and Licensing specialists – combining two previous workshops (IP & Commercialisation 101 and Research Tools 101) into a comprehensive start to making impact through innovation.

What the workshop covers:

• Intellectual property: learn how IP is generated and protected, from patents, copyrights and database rights to trade secrets — and how they apply to research outputs.
• Understand how the University’s IP policy is applied to staff and students.
• Licensing IP: learn about how IP leaves the University to be turned into a useable product or service.
• Research tools: discover how reagents, software and other tools developed in the course of your research work can quickly generate impact and revenue.
• Commercialisation pathways: discover how to assess the commercial value of an idea, understand how research innovations can be turned into products, and explore real-life examples of how Cambridge researchers have brought innovations to market.
• Getting the right support: Find out how Cambridge Enterprise can help evaluate your idea, secure translational funding, and connect you with key stakeholders.
• Consider possible IP arising from your own work
• Time to workshop and explore your questions and ideas.

Above all, this is a chance to connect with a community of like-minded individuals who are exploring how to turn their work into something that benefits society, with the tools and guidance to help make it happen.

Who is this for?

This workshop is open to current University of Cambridge staff and postgraduate students.

Ideas to Reality Programme

This event is part of Cambridge Enterprise’s Ideas to Reality Programme which is designed to provide members of the University with the guidance and tools to translate their ideas, research and expertise into real-world impact.

Speaker: Akshay Kaul, Director General for Infrastructure, Ofgem

Speaker: Seabron Adamson (Boston College / Charles River Associates)

EPRG invites you to our Energy & Environment Seminar held in-person. A sandwich lunch will be provided beforehand, from 12:00 to 12:30.

Seabron Adamson is Vice President, Energy at international economics consultancy Charles River Associates and a visiting research fellow at the Judge Business School at Cambridge. He has worked on power market design issues in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union and other countries. He is the co-author of Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice (Academic Press, 2024). He was previously an energy analyst and trader at a major global hedge fund.

Further information about this term’s seminars can be found here.

Speaker: Herminio Tasinafo Honorio, Delft University of Technology

Underground man-made salt caverns are a proven technology for energy storage, and their usage is expected to increase in the coming years, following the current efforts towards energy transition. Upscaling salt caverns (e.g., systems of caverns) also raises concerns about safety and cavern integrity, which requires a careful lifetime assessment of their mechanical stability. In this context, this presentation examines the mechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of salt rocks, as well as methods for identifying situations that could compromise cavern integrity. The importance of a multiscale approach, spanning from laboratory experiments to field-scale simulations, is also discussed. Without diving into the mathematical details, a physical intuition is provided on how to compose a constitutive model to capture the different deformation mechanisms in salt rocks. Finally, the impact of different constitutive model choices and calibrations is analyzed in the light of numerical simulations.

This talk is part of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF) series.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Catherine Pearson.