ANU Energy Update 2025. Getting to net zero: Unlocking domestic and international opportunities

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Please join us for this year’s ANU Energy Update to hear about recent developments in energy transition research.

This annual event brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to discuss energy sector developments and present an update on trajectories to decarbonisation. The focus of this  years Update is Getting to Net Zero: Unlocking Domestic and International Opportunities.

Program:

  • Welcome. Professor Llewelyn Hughes, ICEDS Interim Director
     
  • Remarks: Eliza Murray, Deputy CEO, Climate Change Authority. Independent Advice on Australia's 2035 Decarbonisation Target 
     
  • Panel 1: Achieving the 2035 Decarbonisation Target: Opportunities & Barriers

    • Alison Reeve, Energy and Climate Change Program Director, Grattan Institute - Chair

    • Eliza Murray, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Climate Change Authority

    • Associate Professor Rebecca Colvin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University 

    • Associate Professor Marnie Shaw, Deputy Director, School of Engineering, Australian National University

  • Break

  • Panel 2: Green Iron & Steel Exports: Enabling through Partnerships

    • Associate Professor Emma Aisbett, College of Law, Governance & Policy, ANU - Chair

    • Dr Jorrit Gosens, ANU Centre for Climate Economics & Policy (CCEP), and HILT CRC. Economic and emissions analysis of Australia-China green steel making value chains.

    • Dr Victor Pantano, Director ANU-Rio Tinto Partnership. OreAI in the Pilbara: From Rock Data to Green Steel.

    • Nicole Yazbek-Martin, Executive Manager: Sustainability Standards and Practice, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute

    • Carmela Pavlic Searle,  leads the Energy Diversification Section within the Trade and Investment Group at Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

More information:

  • This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in-person at The Australian National University campus or Online. A tea and coffee break will be provided for in-person participants.
  • The event will be recorded and made available online.
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