When: Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 3:00 PM - 6:30 PMWhere: Zoom/ Room 3.1, Centre For Commercial Law Studies, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB
This academic year is the 10th Anniversary of the Energy & Climate Change Law Institute. It is an amazing milestone and deserves marking.
On the 4th of December at 3:30 pm in Lincoln's Inn Fields, we are holding a Queen Mary multidisciplinary forum.
Moderated by Professor Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, the forum explored the value and power of collaborating and cooperating across different disciplines and how working together can contribute significantly towards limiting the impact of climate change.
Moderator
Tim Bale is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations. He graduated first from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and then did a Masters degree at Northwestern University in the USA. Following a few years spent working in finance for the NHS (the UK's National Health Service), he returned to academia to do a PhD at the Department of Politics at Sheffield University. After Sheffield, he taught politics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and then at Sussex University back in the UK until 2012. In 2008 he won the Political Studies Association's Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching. In 2011 he received the W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, the second edition of which was published in late 2016. Other books he has written or co-written in recent years include The Conservatives since1945: the Drivers of Party Change, Five Year Mission. The Labour Party under Ed Miliband and Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century, the research for which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and generated the website http://esrcpartymembersproject.org. Tim helped write three books published in 2021: The Modern British Party System; The British General Election of 2019, and Riding the Populist Wave: Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis. In 2023 he published The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation.' Tim's media work includes writing for UK and overseas newspapers, and he appears fairly often on national and international radio and television to talk about politics. Even more often (for good or ill) he tweets using the handle @ProfTimBale. You can find his non-academic writing collected on his blog - proftimbale.com - and his academic writing (mostly journal articles, not all of which are necessarily behind a paywall!) by going to Google Scholar.
Our panel includes:
Angela Mutsotso - Natural Resource Law Practitioner, QMUL Alumni 2020/21 - Angela Mutsotso is an energy and climate policy lawyer and practitioner. She has worked extensively within Africa's energy and extractive sectors and internationally. She has previously worked on energy transition at the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and with Oxfam in Kenya at the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG). She is a lawyer and holds an LLM in Energy and Natural Resources Law from Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom.
She currently supports the energy planning work stream at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), focusing on the Long-Term Energy Scenarios Network. Before joining IRENA, she worked on climate change and sustainability at the Queen Mary University of London within their Global Policy Institute and School of Business and Management.
Fernando Barrio - School of Business and Management
Prof Joe Briscoe: QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science
Dr Pavel Kratina: Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability