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Energy and Environment Forum 2025

Welcome to the Energy and Environment Forum 2025! This is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the energy transition seen from different perspectives presented by UiO researchers. This event is free and open for all!

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Kirsten Jenkins presenting her keynote at The Future of Energy conference 2025. Photo: Christoffer Hals.

Are you interested in how researchers and students at the University of Oslo are contributing to the energy and climate transition?

Join us at this conference to explore a wide range of cutting-edge topics in sustainable energy - including carbon capture and storage (CCS), circular economy, smart cities, climate adaptation, and the societal impacts of the green transition.

The event is free and open for all but registration is required.

Register here

Program

We are currently working out the program details. Please stay tuned and save the date!

10:00-11:00 Opening session

  • Welcome by Vebj?rn Bakken, Director at UiO:Energy and Environment
  • Keynote by Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences
    • Q&A with the audience

11:00-11:15 Short break

11:15-12:15 Session 1: Energy transition and the environment

12:15-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Student pitches

  • We will have a pitching competition for students, Master's and PhDs. Read more and sign up here.

14:00-14:15 Short break

14:15-15:15 Session 2: People, society and climate

15:15-15:30 Short break

15:30-16:30 Session 3: A carbon-neutral society

  • Henrik Hovland Svensen, Professor - Crustal Processes, Department of Geosciences and Head of the VISTA Center VICCO

16:30-17:00 Closing remarks

  • Including announcement of the winner of the pitching competition

17:00-19:00 Dinner and mingling

Published May 12, 2025 1:25 PM - Last modified May 14, 2025 9:43 AM