The Energy Transition

Join us in person at Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD or online (👇 Dialing-in details👇 are at the end of this event description).

Substantive presentation

Energy and electricity generation underpin the running of our societies and economies, but are among the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The energy transition - the shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption to renewable and low-carbon systems - is therefore crucial to achieving our net zero targets. However, such a change is complex and involves a myriad of variables - some technological, some political - requiring calculated policy decisions and proper system design.

This session will explore how the UK plans to achieve its energy transition, focussing on two key technologies, wind power (primarily offshore wind) and nuclear energy.

We will:

🔎 Discuss the ingredients of an energy system, and what the "energy transition" really means

🔎 Analyse UK's current energy mix, and her transition plans to achieve net zero by 2050

🔎 Focus in on two forms of energy, wind power and nuclear, and the challenges of scaling each

Interview with an expert

Each of our monthly knowledge sessions will include an interview with a guest practitioner/ academic who will bring the topic of the presentation ‘to life’.

The interviewee for this session will be announced shortly and updated here soon.

Creative content

Each of our monthly knowledge sessions will include a small group discussion of ‘creative content’. This might be a podcast, a piece of music or a film.

The creative content for this session will be announced shortly and updated here soon.

👇Join us online👇

To be as inclusive as possible, we run our events in a hybrid format. If you are not in London for our third knowledge session, please do join us online!

Joining details to be provided soon.

About Legal Voices for the Future

Legal Voices for the Future is a collaborative learning forum established by junior practitioners from different fields of law, whose objective is to give voice to a new generation of lawyers. We do so by holding monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers alike. In order to bring fresh perspective, innovation and determination to pressing global issues such as climate change, each session is organised and led by a different member of Legal Voices for the Future.

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