The 2022 conference takes place 26–27 September at
The Queen’s College, Oxford, UK

Conference Programme

Monday, 26 September

Time

 

8.00-9.00

Registration

9.00-9.15

Welcome
Shulman Auditorium

Elisa Arond and Miquel Muñoz Cabré, SEI, conference co-chairs

9.15-10.30

Opening: Developments in energy markets and energy outlooks
Shulman Auditorium
Keynote speaker: Christophe McGlade, International Energy Agency (IEA)

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.30

Parallel sessions

 

Indigeneous and community-led resistance to fossil fuels
Memorial room
Moderator: Ximena Warnaars, Ford Foundation
  • Angeline Robertson, Stand.earth Research Group
    Informing Indigenous-led opposition strategies with supply chain research
  • Nemonte Nenquimo, Amazon Frontlines
    Indigenous guardianship and women-led resistance to extraction: lessons for the fossil fuel transition from Waorani Territory
  • Nonhle Mbuthuma, Amadiba Crisis Committee (South Africa)
    Umhlaba Ngawethu, Amandla Ngawethu: the power of solidarity between nature and people Xolobeni
  • Johan Lorenzen, Richard Spoor Inc, Attorneys (South Africa)
    Land first and the rest followed: Reflecting on lawyers’ modest role in the amadiba struggle
  • Kate Horner, Amazon Frontlines
    The right to refuse in international and national law: Indigenous resistance to extraction through self-determination
 
Research trends, gaps, and priorities for climate litigation
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern Finland
  • Joshua Axelrod, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
    Transitions within bounds: options for fossil dependent economies within existing legal frameworks
  • Peter C. Frumhoff, Harvard University Center for the Environment
    Research priorities for climate itigation
  • Benjamin Franta, University of Oxford
    A new initiative to inform global climate litigation through research
  • Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists
    The space between science and climate litigation: a decade of learning
  • Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice
    Analyzing GHGs from fossil fuel roduction and infrastructure: technical and legal perspectives
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Stranded assets
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Roberto Schaeffer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Alexandre Szklo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro School of Engineering
    Assessment of the petroleum refinery sector using the concept of carbon lock-in
  • Christian Hauenstein, Europa-Universität Flensburg
    Stranded assets in the coal export ndustry? The case of the Australian Galilee Basin
  • Steve Pye, University College London (presenting in lieu of Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Inter-American Development Bank)
    High and dry: stranded natural gas reserves and fiscal revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Gregor Semieniuk, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies
  • Salaheddine Soummane, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
    Impacts of global climate policies on Middle Eastern oil exporters: a review of economic implications and mitigation strategies

12.30-13.45

Lunch

13.45-15.15

Parallel sessions

 

Narratives, vested interests, and opposition strategies around fossil fuel production
Memorial Room
Moderator: Peter Newell, University of Sussex
  • Clemens Kaupa, Carbon Tracker Initiative
    Challenging fossil advertising under consumer law
  • Krista Halttunen, Imperial College London
    "We don’t want to be the bad guys": the attitudes of oil industry employees to climate change and the future of oil
  • Cara Pike, Climate Access (US)
    Framing fossil fuel supply issues
  • Chris Garrard, Culture Unstained (UK)
    Taking the logos down: from oil sponsorship to fossil free culture
  • Joachim Peter Tilsted, Lund University
    Narrating decarbonisation: stories of climate action in the petrochemical industry
 
Policy approaches to fossil fuel supply and climate change
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Angela Carter, University of Waterloo
  • Yamina Saheb, Sciences Po Paris
    The Energy Charter Treaty: is it modernisable?
  • Kalim Shah, University of Delaware
    Institutional structuration for Enhanced low-carbon development transitions in the Guianas shield producer countries
  • Fergus Green, University College London
    No New Fossil Fuel Projects
  • Michele Bustamante, NRDC
    From ‘status quo’ to ‘climate goals’: advancing the state of US energy nfrastructure reviews with a science-based climate test tool
  • Lea Di Salvatore, University of Nottingham
    The role of international investment law in protecting fossil fuel investments
 
Insights from global analyses
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Paul Ekins, University College London
  • Kjell Kühne, Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO) and University of Leeds School of Geography
    Towards defusing carbon bombs
  • Marianne Zanon Zotin, Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    The non-energy use of oil: long-term scenarios of the chemical industry in a global energy and materials transition
  • Olivier Bois von Kursk, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
    Energy Transition Scenarios Report
  • Steve Pye, University College London
    Global insights for O&G production decline in the UK
  • Franziska Holz, DIW Berlin
    Infrastructure for global natural gas trade: demand shifts and stranded assets

15.15-16.30

Parallel sessions

 

Feminist resistance to fossil fuels
Memorial Room
Moderator: Inès Bakhtaoui, SEI
  • Emiliano Castillo Jara, University of Trier
    Competing notions of energy justice around tar sands development in Canada
  • Jennie Stephens, Northeastern University (US)
    Feminist, antiracist leadership for climate justice: resisting climate isolationism to end fossil fuel reliance
  • Oscar Santiago Vargas Guevara, Network of Community Initiatives (RICO)
    Gender, territory, sovereignty: feminist outlooks from below for just energy transitions
  • Andrea Cardoso Diaz, Universidad del Magdalena
    Ecofeminist the root to fossil fuel resistance in Colombia
  • Brototi Roy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institute of Environmental Science and Technology
    When our food is gone, can we eat coal? Women´s resistance against coal in India
 
Diversification and divestment strategies for oil and gas companies
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Fredric Bauer, Lund University
  • Andrea Furnaro, National Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) (US)
    Pemex and the energy transition
  • Mathieu Blondeel, Warwick Business School
    Will it stay in the ground? Studying asset divestments by international oil companies
  • Balasubramanian Viswanathan, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
    State-owning the energy transition: risks and diversification strategies for coal sector SOEs in India
  • Max ÅhmanLund University
    Diversifying petrostates by investing down-stream the fossil value chain – extending the carbon lock-in?
  • Patricio Calles Almeida, SEI
    All in: comparing progress on low-carbon fossil fuel supply strategies
 
Tools for assessing supply side policies and actions
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI
  • Quyen Nguyen, University of Otago
    Scope 3 emissions: data quality and machine learning prediction accuracy
  • Fatih Uenal, University of Geneva
    Machine learning classification of supply-side fossil fuel policies
  • Pietro Andreoni, Politecnico di Milano / RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
    A multi-model assessment of the interplay between fossil-extraction bans and demand-side policies in ambitious mitigation scenarios
  • Nicolas Gaulin, Wageningen University & Research
    Determinants of fossil fuel production cuts and implications for an international supply-side agreement
  • Daniel Horen Greenford, Concordia University
    Climate testing fossil fuel supply and infrastructure

16.30-16.45

Coffee break

16.45-18.15

Plenary: Breaking carbon lock-in in developing producer countries
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Jesse Burton, University of Cape Town
  • Isabel Blanco , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    Multilateral development banks’ common approach to a just transition
  • Raditya Wiranegara, Institute for Essential Services Reform (Indonesia)
    Framework to assess the implications of an ccelerated and just coal power phaseout in support of Indonesia’s 2050 net-zero emission target
  • Claudia Strambo, SEI
    Geopolitics of carbon lock-in in fossil fuel-dependent developing countries: case studies of Colombia and Nigeria
  • Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) (South Africa)
    A policy toolbox for just transitions in the Global South
  • Elias Spiekermann, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (Germany)

18.15-19.00

Networking drinks

Tuesday, 27 September

 

Time

 
9.00-10.30
Plenary: Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) - Leadership for just, orderly phase out of oil and gas supply
Shulman Auditorium
Moderator: Sian Bradley, BOGA Head of Secretariat
  • Amb. Tomas Anker Christensen, BOGA co-chair, Denmark
  • TBD, BOGA co-chair, Costa Rica
  • Suzy Nikièma, IISD
  • Glada Lahn, Chatham House
  • Moustapha Kamal Gueye, International Labour Organization (ILO)
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Parallel sessions
 
Just transitions in oil and gas producing countries: Lessons and pathways from the North Sea
Memorial Room
Moderator: Olle Olsson, SEI
  • Valérie Marcel, Chatham House
    Charting the challenges faced by emerging oil and gas producers in a highly competitive and warming world
  • Guri Bang, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
    When fossil fuel supply politics went mainstream: causes and consequences of anti-oil and gas mobilizations in the UK and Norway in 2021
  • Karl Sperling, Aalborg University
    Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: Denmark
  • Camilla Houeland, University of Oslo
    Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: Norway
  • Kirsten Jenkins, University of Edinburgh
    Evidence-based co-production of scenarios to accelerate the just transition: UK / Scotland
  • Linus Linde, SEI
    What does ‘just transitions’ mean for oil and gas?
 
International governance and cooperation
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Tzeporah Berman, Stand.earth Research Group
  • Natalie Jones, IISD
    Mapping fossil fuel production in Nationally Determined ontributions and Long-term Low Emissions Development Strategies under the UNFCCC.
  • Peter Newell, University of Sussex
    Building a fossil fuel NPT: key elements
  • Johnny West, Carbon Tracker Initiative
    Accounting without records: the case for a public registry of fossil fuel emissions
  • Rebecca Byrnes, Australian National University
    Legal pathways to a fossil fuel treaty
  • Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia
    The international political economy of fossil fuel supply
 
Economics of fossil fuel and climate
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Richard Denniss, The Australia Institute
  • Marc Campanele and Mike Coffin, Carbon Tracker Initiative
    The critical path to net zero
  • Mirte Boot, Oxford University
    Using the carbon takeback obligation to help phase out fossil energy production
  • Lennart Stern, Paris School of Economics
    Proportionally matching voluntary contributions to institutions rewarding countries for reducing the supply and the demand of coal and oil
  • Iain Steel, Econias (UK)
    So you want to quit producing fossil fuels? Putting the manage in "managed decline"
  • Klaus Eisenack, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Buy coal and gas? Interfuel carbon leakage on deposit markets with market power
12.30-13.45
Lunch
13.45-15.15
Parallel sessions
 
Coal phase-out and just transitions: regional approaches
Memorial Room
Moderator: Leo Roberts, E3G
  • Libo Chen, University of Southampton and Jiaqi Lu, University of Wisconsin–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
    Drivers behind coal pushback after crisis
  • José Vega-Araújo, SEI
    A just transition for coal producing regions and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): a case study from Colombia
  • Pao-Yu Oei, Europa-Universität Flensburg
    Lacking ambitious climate policy: The collaborative governance experience of coal commissions
  • Gareth Edwards, University of East Anglia
    'Just coal' or a 'just transition'? Understanding how justice arguments structure debates about coal in Australia
  • Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra, Technische Universität Berlin
    Change everything so that nothing changes: what the reconfiguration of extractivism in Colombian fossil fuel extracting regions can teach us about energy transitions in the Global South
 
Socio-economic and health impacts
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Claudia Strambo, SEI
  • Ploy Achakulwisut, SEI
    Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution from the oil and gas supply chain in Texas
  • Daria Shapovalova, University of Aberdeen
    Just transition and fossil fuel regions: perspectives from Aberdeen
  • Felix Zaussinger, ETH Zurich
    The regional effects of a green transition on labour markets
  • Timothy Donaghy, Greenpeace USA
    Fossil fuel racism
  • Martí Orta-Martínez, University of Barcelona
    The atlas of unburnable oil: spatial criteria for supply-side climate policies
 
Financing the transition
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Frank Jotzo, Australian National University
  • Emily Budgen and Ellen Quigley, University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
    Climate and Decarbonisation: Investment impact across asset classes and Supply-focused decarbonisation methodologies
  • Igor Shishlov, Perspectives Climate Group
    Aligning officially supported export finance with the Paris Agreement
  • Amanda Schockling, Climate & Company (Germany)
    Climate finance options to enabling a coal transition
  • Truzaar Dordi, University of Waterloo
    Ten Financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels
  • Bronwen Tucker, Oil Change International
    Still digging: G20 governments continue to finance the climate crisis / Past last call: G20 public finance institutions are still bankrolling fossil fuels
15.15-16.30
Parallel sessions
 
Just transitions in fossil fuel-dependent economies
Memorial Room
Moderator: Jesse Burton, University of Cape Town
  • Felipe Corral Montoya, TU Berlin / Europa Universität Flensburg
    Post fossil transitions in rentist and extractivist contexts: key challenges and avenues for research
  • Max Cohen, University of British Columbia
    Peripheral transitions: governing the Shetland Islands' energy transitions from oil era to the UK's first "green energy island"
  • Julia Schwab, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen
    How to just transition in rentist countries?
  • Edwin Cristancho-Pinilla, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Building a narrative on conflicts for the transition from a fossil fuel-based economy in Colombia
  • Victor Maxwell, Climate Analytics
    Unpacking fossil gas as a bridging fuel: A case study of Western Australia
 
The politics of fossil fuel supply
Schulman Auditorium
Moderator: Stefan Bößner, SEI
  • Florian Egli, ETH Zurich
    The politics of phasing out petroleum production: Party positions and voter reactions in Norway
  • Christian Downie, Australian National University
    Following the money: trade associations, political activity and climate change
  • James Price, UCL Energy Institute
    Bridging the credibility gap between energy scenarios and energy geopolitics
  • Laura Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists
    Climate risk disclosure and disinformation in the US
 
Net zero and carbon removal
Lecture Room B
Moderator: Pao-Yu Oei, Europa-Universität Flensburg
  • Gregory Trencher, Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
    Keeping one’s fossil fuel cake while eating it: comparing proposed pathways to net-zero by BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell
  • Shinichiro Asayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies
    Can carbon removal technologies be compatible with the managed decline of fossil fuels?
  • Naadira Ogeer, Commonwealth Secretariat
    FDP and net zero projects: acting today to advance an equitable energy transition
  • Kathy Mulvey, Union of Concerned Scientists
    Net zero and fossil fuel company accountability: burning questions
  • Polly Hemming, The Australia Institute
    Net-zero fraud: How carbon markets conceal Australia’s fossil fuel expansionism
16.30-16.4
Coffee
16.45-18.15
Closing
Shulman Auditorium