09.30Welcome and Keynote speakers – Younger Hall Lecture Theatre
Senior Representative from Principal’s Office, St Andrews
Minister Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Scottish Government  
10.45Coffee and Biscuit Break – Younger Hall foyer  
11.00Concurrent Panel Sessions – Younger Hall  
 Seminar Room 1
Transitions: Justice, Lithium and Crypto-Nightmares    
Kelly Rebecca Prime Smart(er) Energy Justice: A Methodology to Elicit Justice Concerns in Smart Meter Futures  
Pablo Ampuero Ruiz Making the Lithium Market: Lithium Experts Balancing Sustainability and Profitability in the Energy Transition  
Giovanni Frigo & Roman Meinhold Electro-Crypto-Nightmare: Elucidating the Relation between Digital and Ecosystemic Sustainability    

Seminar Room 2
Climate Ethics, Panel 2  
Emma Curran Fairness to the Future and Leaving the Present Behind  
Quan Nguyen Losing Your Concepts during Climate Breakdown  
Rahul Kumar (discussant)
Simon Hope (discussant)                           

Seminar Room 3
Energy Crises and Green Certificates
Ben Hall Participatory Action – a solution to energy ‘greenwashing’?
Sandy Smith-Nonini Energy Crises in the Time of Covid: Legacies of Fossil Fuel Dependency, (De)Regulated Electricity and Extreme Weather

Seminar Room 4
Circular carbon: conflict, confusion and compromise at carbon ‘frontiers’
Timothy Neale, Kari Dahlgren, Matthew Kearnes and Kirsty Howey Fostering and funding carbon frontiers in northern Australia
Lydia Cole Peat-to-power: a framework for exploring the ‘sustainability’ of Rwanda’s domestic energy supply  
Ewan Jenkins, Cornelia Helmcke, Lydia Cole Peatland Carbon and Community Interests: The Political Ecology of Restoration Practices on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

Stewart Room
Film Panel  
Callum Kellie Keystone  
Hans Baumann Lithospheric Transference  
Paloma Yáñez Serrano & Benjamin Llorens Rocamora The Wave      
12.45Lunch – Lower College Hall  
13.45Concurrent Panel Sessions – Younger Hall  
 Seminar Room 1
Financial infrastructures for the Future, Panel 1
Ainur Begim & Taylor Spears Enfolding the Non-Financial into Financial Infrastructures: ESG and the Infrastructures of the Global Derivatives Markets
Aneil Tripathy Words across markets: What green, sustainable, and impact mean between bonds and carbon credits
Caura Wood Reconciling Time Value and the Liability Condition: New regimes of capitalization across western Canada’s Petroscape

Seminar Room 2
Climate Ethics, Panel 3
Krister Bykvist Coordination problems in climate ethics – Do we need to reach beyond individual duties to solve them?
Julia Driver (discussant)

Seminar Room 3
Continuity and Disruption: financing, planning and envisioning energy transitions
Anna-Sophie Hobi “This is not about money”: Norwegian battery futures and the meanings of growth
Marc Andrew Brightman Speculative hydrogen futures and ambitions for green recovery in the eastern Adriatic
Simone Abram, Laura Marsiliani, Chima Michael Anyadike Danes, Jingyuan Di. Co-financing future heat?  

Seminar Room 4
Accelerating the Future: Investment and Fairness in a Time of Transition  
Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska Predictions of electricity prices as embedded devices for coordinating European futures
Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh Can Fairness and Green Jobs Accelerate the Energy Transition in Canada?
Kalila MacKenzie The impact of government grants on households’ willingness to pay for microgeneration heating technologies – An empirical analysis of household preferences

Stewart Room
Ethical Risks and Incentives  
Felix FitzRoy Energy Ethics and Incentives  
Steve Gardiner The Ethical Risks of an Intergenerational World Climate Bank J149 (as Opposed to a Climate Justice World Bank)
Kristian Høyer Toft Seeking compensation for Loss and damages – Reviewing climate litigation cases through the lens of human rights and ethics    
15.30Coffee and Biscuit Break – Younger Hall foyer  
15.45Concurrent Panel Sessions – Younger Hall  
 Seminar Room 1
Financial infrastructures for the Future, Panel 2
Chelsie Yount-André Crisis Bonds & Concessionary Loans: Drawbacks of development via ESG
Filipe Calvão & Matthew Archer Flaring the grid: residue economies of crypto energy
Sean Field The promise of finance – materialising visions of the future in an anthropogenic era

Seminar Room 2
Climate Ethics, Panel 4  
Christian Barry Net Zero Accounting  
Kerah Gordon-Solomon (discussant)

Seminar Room 3
Reframing Finance: Expectations and Surviving the Future  
Eeva Kesküla, Arina Aleksejeva How will we finance this winter? Energy workers, energy prices and surviving the future in Estonia
Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska, Rafał Szymanowski, Marek Jaskólski The Role of Expectations in the Transition to Electric Mobility: the case of Poland

Seminar Room 4
New Oil, Petrochemicals and the Nuclear Anthropocene  
Michelle Geraerts Lithium batteries as ‘the new oil’ in the Norwegian green shift  
Nadezhda Mamontova The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet North: Creating the Socialist Geo-Nation  
Riyoko Shibe Economic Security, Grangemouth, and the Petrochemicals Industry from c.1957 to c.2005    

School V
Financial Utopias and Storytelling  
Daniel Wuebben Stranger than Fiction? The Ethical Insights of Energy Utopias  
Nynke van Uffelen, Daniel Wuebben, Giovanni Frigo, Roman Meinhold, Lorenzo Simone Abundance and Sufficiency within Energy Utopias: Financial Implications of Sociotechnical Imaginaries  
Inna Sukhenko Narrating Permaculture within Storytelling Nuclear Legacies: Literary Dimensions

Stewart Room
Rough Currency, Rebecca Sharp  
Join poet Rebecca Sharp for a reading of her recent poetry collection Rough Currency (Tapsalteerie 2021). Exploring the poetics of oil and the imagination, Rough Currency excavates our personal, political, mythological and geological entanglements with fossil fuels and the oil economy. Rough Currency received an Art of Energy Award from the CEE in 2021, and a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature. This is a chance to hear the background to some of the poems with informal discussion, as well as a preview of some of the new work Rebecca is writing as CEE’s Artist in Residence, towards her new poetry collection which will be published next year.  
18.00Byre Theatre
Pibroch – booking required*
How does it feel to find oneself on a ‘burning platform’ with a pressing need for change but limited options? Pibroch, is a multimedia theatre production which explores parallels between the Climate Emergency and the Piper Alpha Disaster in 1988. Created by Aberdeenshire-based writer and artist, John Bolland, this exciting new production uses words, live music and striking visual imagery to represent the personal and social experiences of Piper Alpha survivors and their relationship to the challenges each of us face in a warming world. Co-directed by Mark Thomson, former Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, Pibroch is crafted by an outstanding team of theatre professionals. John Bolland’s words are complemented by Fraser Fifield who provides live musical accompaniment to the performance.

* Pibroch tickets can be booked through the event registration or on the Byre Theatre website