COP28 - Oxford scientists discuss the role of fossil fuels on the path to net zero

Join members of the Oxford Net Zero team in a frank and honest discussion about the role of fossil fuels in the transition to net zero.
0:40 What are the indisputable facts about the role of fossil fuels in reaching net zero?
3:44 Beyond carbon emissions, what are the negative externalities of fossil fuels?
5:14 Beyond emissions, how do the negative impacts of fossil fuels compare to those of clean energy technologies?
7:00 What does 'unabated' vs 'abated' really mean? Do these words create a loophole for the fossil fuel industry to exploit?
13:09 Does carbon dioxide removal allow us to delay action on emission reduction?
15:01 What are the cost considerations both for clean technologies and fossil fuels (without emissions)?
15:42 Are you funded by the fossil fuel industry?
18:06 Summarising the key facts
Speakers
- Moderated by Alexis McGivern, Net Zero Standards Manager and Oxford lead for the Global Youth Climate Training Programme
- Cameron Hepburn, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at Oxford Net Zero, the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
- Myles Allen, Director of Oxford Net Zero and Professor of Geosystems Science, Department of Engineering and Environment Change Institute
Links to research
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right - www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
UNEP Production Gap Report - www.unep.org/resources/produc...
Extended producer responsibility for fossil fuels iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Legal limits to the use of CO2 removal - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition - www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S...
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - www.stateofcdr.org/
Assessing the relative costs of high-CCS and low-CCS pathways to 1.5 degrees - www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/site...
Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: an affordable backstop climate policy - www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Neither Oxford Net Zero nor the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment receive funding from the fossil fuel industry. The current Oxford University policy on fossil fuel funding can be found here: governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/fos...