Sussex Energy Group Keynote Lecture 2021

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon gives the 2021 Sussex Energy Group (SEG) Keynote Lecture on 'Technological Change in Energy and Green Industrial Policy'. Energy technologies are experiencing a period of rapid change. This change is helping society rise to meet the climate challenge and also spurring research within a wide range of related disciplines. In addition to technological change, we now have increasing experience of climate harms and better knowledge of the co-benefits of climate action. We are also experiencing the rise of social movements calling for a low carbon future. Together, these factors have combined to create the current momentum behind industrial policies for a green recovery. But how, and to what extent, do different policies incentivise energy technology innovation and competitiveness for a just energy transition? In this talk Prof Anadon shares key insights from research addressing this question. Professor Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge and is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). She is also a Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.