The Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has invited Centre Director Dr Mette High to participate in an online discussion panel on the Ethics of Energy. Part of the Cambridge Festival 2022, Dr High will feature alongside Dr Shaun Fitzgerald (Director of the Centre for Climate Repair, Cambridge) as the two explore some of the differences in timescales of impact and who might pick up the environmental tab on the way to ‘Net Zero’.
The Centre’s Emilka Skrzypek and her Co-Investigator, Nick Bainton from the University of Queensland were awarded a grant from The British Academy for a project titled: Just transition: A new framework for responsible extraction of energy transition metals for the...
To mark COP26 in Glasgow, Poetry and Power brings together three award-winning poets – Rebecca Sharp, John Bolland and Garry MacKenzie – to reflect on the intersection of Climate Change and Poetry.
Centre Director Mette High was a speaker at the roundtable event “Power to the People: St Andrews’ journey to net-zero and the future of energy”, which took place on Thursday 28 October 2021. At the event, Dr High brought attention to Fuel Poverty in Scotland and the...
Between 31 October – 12 November 2021, Glasgow is to play host to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). As the University of St Andrews delegate, Dr High has been invited to attend the first week of the conference, which includes the World...
In June, the Centre for Energy Ethics ran the inaugural Africa@2050 Climate Fiction Competition in conjunction with the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (C3SS) at the University of Ghana. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our Africa@2050 Climate-Fiction Competition!
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Itay Noy will be joining us from 1 October as the inaugural Centre for Energy Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow. Funded by The Gabrione Family, the Fellowship is a 1-year award offered to an outstanding early career researcher working on issues of energy ethics in the arts, humanities, social or natural sciences.
In response to our call, we received 152 submissions from not only across the UK but all over the world!
We are delighted to announce that after a long and careful deliberation, the panel has selected the winners of the The Art of Energy – Call for Composers.
The unstable and often dialectical relationship between the presence and absence of the state in a resource extraction context is examined in a newly released book edited by Nick Bainton and Emilka Skrzypek: The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects.
An article written by Centre Member, Dr Lucy Wishart from the School of Management, following an investigation on an Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland, where it was reported that more than 130,000 new and unused items were destroyed.