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Seminar: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention Technologies

Seminar: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention Technologies

Thursday 1st March 2012

Dr Steve Rayner and Professor Richard Darton of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme discuss the climate change challenge and prospect of geoengineering alongside Dr John Constable, Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation and Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent at The Guardian.
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February Geoengineering Seminar Series a Success

February Geoengineering Seminar Series a Success

Thursday 9th February 2012

On February 1st, 6th and 8th we hosted the first three seminars in our new Seminar Series at the Oxford Martin School. These events were webcast live over the internet to an actively participating public audience and also featured remote presenters who were able to deliver their presentations without having to generate carbon emissions from traveling to Oxford!
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Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: The Promise of Plants to Lock Away Carbon

Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: The Promise of Plants to 'Lock Away' Carbon

Wednesday 8th February 2012

Dr Ondrej Masek of the UK Biochar Research Centre, Almuth Ernsting, Co-Director of Biofuelwatch, and Dr Abigail Swann of the University of Washington discuss afforestation and biochar as large scale responses to climate change.
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Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: Growing an Energy Source and Storing Its Waste

Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: Growing an Energy Source and Storing It's Waste

Monday 6th February 2012

Henrik Karlsson, Chief Executive Officer of Biorecro, Dr Jan Ole Kiso, Policy Analyst at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Professor Tim Lenton of the University of Exeter, and Professor Nilay Shah of Imperial College London discuss the potential and the limits of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
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Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: Ocean Fertilization - Can Seeding New Life in the Ocean Absorb Our Excess Carbon?

Geoengineering Seminar Series Event: Ocean Fertilization - Can Seeding New Life in the Ocean Absorb Our Excess Carbon?

Wednesday 1st February 2012

Professor Richard Lampitt, Observational Biogeochemist at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, Dr David Santillo of Greenpeace and Dr Chris Vivian of CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacultural Science) and the London Convention/Protocol discuss ocean fertilization as a means of drawing down atmospheric carbon, and the governance challenges experiments have raised in the past.
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