2050 Carbon Aspiration – Between Green Tech Advancement and Low Carbon Lifestyle
Energy Futures Lab host a talk from Professor Dato’ Seri Zaini Ujang on the scientific issues and policy options for emerging countries in enhancing green growth.
Abstract
Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) provide specific targets and initiatives to curb carbon emission, and expending carbon sink, thus creates opportunities to enhance and expand the adoption of green technology. SDG-driven regulatory framework and policies have been in place in many countries. Often, multilateral framework-based policies have long term perspective and outcomes beyond 20 years, especially in rapidly emerging countries where opportunities are available for new infrastructures and facilities to be developed.
This lecture outlines scientific issues and policy options for emerging countries, such as Malaysia in enhancing green growth by adopting, developing and benefitting from Green Technology; providing appropriate regulatory instruments, at the same time promoting Low Carbon Lifestyle. What is the correct balancing recipe? Scientific issues will also be discussed such as disruptive technologies and digitalization, ranging from carbon actions impacting financial sustainability and accuracy of carbon simulation data on investment climate on major infrastructures, particularly in energy and transportation sectors. Green lifestyle is part of SDG on demand side, and could be promoted using social media and circular economy.
Biography
Professor Zaini Ujang was Secretary General, Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, Malaysia since April 2016. Prior to that, Zaini was Secretary General, Ministry of Higher Education (2013-2016) and Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2008-2013). Zaini was UTM Professor of Environmental Engineeting, Chair of Task Forces preparing Malaysia’s Higher Education blueprint (2016-2025) and Green Technology Master Plan (2017-2030).
As an academic, Zaini has accomplished wide-range collaborative research in sustainability indicators, green city, water sustainability, water and wastewater technology, mainly on membrane processes, microbial ecology and advanced resource recovery. He was visiting professor at MIT, Tokyo, Kyoto, Tsukuba, Lund, Denmark Technical University and Imperial College London. Zaini was the recipient of Malaysia’s most prestigious Merdeka Award in scholastic achievement in 2009. He loves cycling, hiking and bookworming.
Venue
The lecture will be held in Physics Lecture Theatre 1 in the Blackett Laboratory, the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ.
This is building 6 on the campus map the quickest and easiest way there is to enter via the entrance on Prince Consort Road. The entrance for the lecture theatre is at the top of the stairs on your left hand side as you come into the building.