MPs, policymakers and business leaders joined the launch of King’s Net Zero Centre recently.
The Centre is led by LCN Co-Director Professor Anatoly Zayats and LCN Management Board member Professor Barbara Shollock.
Leading voices from across academia, industry, finance and government joined forces with representatives from King’s College London for a panel event to launch King’s Net Zero Centre.
With an ambition to be a world-leading interdisciplinary institution, the Centre brings together research from across the university to generate solutions for sustainability and the transition to cleaner energy.
Chris Skidmore OBE, MP and Chair of the Independent Government Review on Net Zero, was part of the panel following his speech at the launch of the independent review at King’s earlier this year.
Developed within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, the Centre works with disciplines as diverse as law, engineering, physical mathematical and the social sciences to nurture and facilitate discoveries that will push society towards net zero. By educating scientists, engineers and policymakers within this holistic environment, the Centre aims to bring diverse practitioners together to to achieve interdisciplinary solutions to net zero.
Academia, business and policymakers must work to forge closer ties to better deliver and implement net zero, and it will be the work of institutions like this to solve not just the technological challenges of sustainable development, but the people and skill challenges as w
With an ambition to be a world-leading interdisciplinary institution, the Centre brings together research from across the university to generate solutions for sustainability and the transition to cleaner energy.
In the spirit of cross-sector collaboration, President & Principal of King’s, Professor Shitij Kapur, welcomed attendees from across academia, industry and policy highlighting the importance of meaningful and global collaboration on climate change, including training the next generation of change makers. He said:
“Sustainability will not be solved by those acting just for themselves or just by themselves. It will be solved globally, brick by brick, across disciplines, industries and governments.
“With the Net Zero Centre, King’s is bringing together the breadth of its cross-faculty expertise to embed sustainability in everything we do and co-ordinate real, lasting impact when the threat of climate change is calling for a fundamental change in leadership, education and innovation.”
Co-directors of the Net Zero Centre Barbara Shollock and Anatoly Zayats went on to introduce a panel of leading, cross-sector figures chaired by Professor Frans Berkhout Assistant Principal (King’s Climate & Sustainability). Chris Skidmore MP was joined by Dr Elizabeth Rowsell OBE, Director of the Johnson Matthey Technology Centres, Dr Sinead Balgobin, Head of Regional Engagement (West Midlands) at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Allan Baker, Global Head of Energy Transition within the Energy+ Group at Société Générale, and Christina Rehnberg, Environmental, Social and Governance Director at Delancey.
