Event Archive

2024

March

• The Role of Climate and Energy Law in Sustainable Transition

  13 March 2024, 11:30 - 14:00

  Law plays a pivotal role in the pursuit of sustainable transitions. Highly ambitious sustainability goals, and the societal transformation they require, are unlikely to materialize in the desired timescale without law facilitating them. Law is, however, a complex societal system that can also entail significant barriers to sustainable transitions. Existing...

January

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - The Role of Environment-and-Human-Rights Law in Framing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Ocean Research

  26 January 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  by Prof Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)

2023

November

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024/ACCPIL Seminar - Rising Seas and Retreating Coasts: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Maritime Baselines, Limits and Boundaries

  29 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL (Energy Seminars 2023/2024) and ACCPIL jointly welcome Prof Clive Schofield to Aberdeen   Abstract: The presentation outlines the causes and consequences of climate change induced sea level rise. It considers the sea level rise predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The legal framework for coastal baselines and insular features...

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  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 - Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa State Oil Commission Report

  08 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminars 2023/2024 welcomes Prof Engobo Emeseh   Local Communities, Environmental Justice and Just Transition: Reflections from The Bayelsa Sate Oil Commission Report The Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission Report, ‘An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental Cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria, published in May 2023, provides one of...

March

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  Negotiation of International Wind Power Contract - a personal perspective

  13 March 2023, 13:00 - 15:00

  This lecture is rooted in my personal experience negotiating international wind power contracts. It starts with a short presentation of some useful negotiation theory before presenting some of the particularity of construction contracts and renewable energy execution contracts. Finally I will present some interesting “war stories” and share with the...

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  Are We Killing the Earth to Save the Climate?

  08 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

February

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  Volcanic Eruptions and International Law - Lessons from Iceland

  01 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

  Volcanic eruptions can have various consequences, including in the field of international law. In the seminar, two eruptions will be addressed that have impacted the baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea and other maritime zones of Iceland: Mount Katla in 1918 and the sudden appearance of the...

January

• Prof John Underhill, Director of the Centre for Energy Transition (CET) - Visit to the Law School

  10 January 2023, 12:00 - 13:30

  Information: The Law School is delighted to announce that Prof John Underhill, Director of the Centre for Energy Transition, will be visiting the Law School to update us directly on CET activities, and to meet and speak with staff members.  The visit will:    allow Prof Underhill to share latest developments around...

2022

November

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  Rethinking Contractual Risk allocation in the Hydrocarbon Industry for Environmental Sustainability

  30 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 22/23

March

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  Colonisation of the Polar Regions: the Shifting Sands of Occupation in Theory and Practice

  16 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00

  AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022