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Online Event | 14 March 2024 | Time: 10:00 – 16:15 (GMT+2)
This free-to-attend online conference, a collaboration between The Progress Playbook and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL’s) South Africa arm, will look at the policies and projects that are leading the way to a better, more sustainable world.
Speakers include the policymakers behind Uruguay, Chile and South Australia’s rapid energy transitions, Norway’s world-leading electric vehicle (EV) shift, and South Africa’s flagship just transition projects, among others.
The agenda: (all times shown are GMT+2 hours; 14 March 2024)
| 09:30-09:45 | Welcome – Nick Hedley, editor of The Progress Playbook |
| 09:45-10:15 |
The critical role of rooftop solar in the energy transition. Speaker: Andrew Middleton, CEO of GoSolr |
| 10:15-11:00 |
Morning keynote: Inside South Australia’s world-leading shift to wind, solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen. Speaker: Nick Smith, managing director of Global Decarbonisation Advisory and former executive director of the South Australian department of energy and mining’s growth and low-carbon unit |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Advancing wind and solar adoption in Nigeria: Insights from a study by Robert Gordon University’s Prof Peter Strachan, Dr Racheal Adedokun, and Dr Anita Singh. Speaker: Dr Racheal Adedokun |
| 11:30-12:00 |
How smart water heating systems can tame the solar duck curve and unleash a global rooftop solar boom. Speaker: Jon Kornik, CEO of Plentify |
| 12:00-12:45 |
Midday keynote: How Uruguay got to circa 100% renewable electricity and bolstered its energy security. Speaker: Ramón Méndez Galain, Uruguay’s former national director of energy and currently executive director of Ivy, an association that works to accelerate Latin America’s clean energy transition |
| 12:45-13:00 | Break |
| 13:00-13:30 |
Lessons from Norway’s rapid shift to electric vehicles. Speaker: Petter Haugneland, assistant secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association |
| 13:30-14:00 |
How Chile is phasing out coal faster than any other developing country. Speaker: Marcelo Mena-Carrasco, CEO of The Global Methane Hub and former environment minister of Chile |
| 14:00-14:30 |
What we can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution. Speaker: Morten Kabell, Copenhagen’s former mayor for technical and environmental affairs |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Inside South Africa’s flagship just energy transition projects. Speaker: Mandy Rambharos, vice president for global climate cooperation at the Environmental Defense Fund and former head of Eskom’s just energy transition office |
| 15:00-15:10 | Break |
| 15:10-16:10 |
Panel discussion: How to accelerate the shift to clean electricity while ensuring the benefits are widely spread. Speakers:
Moderator: Ramona Mohanlall, chief operating officer of RustMo1 Solar Farm (the first renewable energy independent power project to connect to South Africa’s grid, in 2013) |
| 16:10-16:15 | Closing |
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The Policies for the Planet conference is supported by GoSolr, JUWI Renewable Energies (South Africa), and Plentify
