COVID-19: the gateway to transforming our energy systems?

Professor Alice Larkin, Head of the School of Engineering and Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy, asks how we use the learnings from COVID-19 to transform our energy systems and tackle climate change.

There are two important lessons that we’ve learnt from the COVID-19 crisis to date. Firstly, that the priorities we were rigidly fixed to are open to change. Secondly, that these changes can happen quickly.

As we adjust to life in the “new normal”, this lecture explores how we use our lessons from lockdown to transform our energy systems, including:

  • Tackling the climate change emergency
  • Sustaining significant change for the longer term
  • How we prioritise for investment when focused, instead, on a climate change emergency
  • Making the most of this moment in time to help future generations

Recorded in August 2020

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