Stanford Energy Seminar: Tim Dixon | CCS in the Global Climate Scene

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Speaker Abstract: CCS is a much needed CO2 mitigation technology and it also has an interesting history in global climate and environmental policy and law. Now with engineered-CDR, it is still an active topic. Tim will provide an up-to-date summary of CCS in the global climate scene and in international environmental law, including the outputs from the latest UNFCCC COP meetings and carbon markets.

Speaker Bio: Tim Dixon is the Director and General Manager of IEAGHG, an international research organisation focussing on carbon capture and storage (CCS). He is responsible for IEAGHG delivering the evidence base on CCS to members and wider stakeholders, and for international knowledge sharing through the largest CCS conference series, GHGT conferences, and numerous workshops. Tim has extensive experience representing CCS in UNFCCC and other international agreements since 2004. Outside IEAGHG, Tim is a Director on the Board for The International CCS Knowledge Centre (Canada), an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin (USA), an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (UK), an original Board Member of the UK CCS Research Centre, and chairs or sits on advisory committees on CCS projects and programmes around the world. Prior to IEAGHG, Tim worked on CCS, clean energy technologies and carbon markets for the UK government and for AEA Technology (UK). Tim has been active in UNFCCC meetings since 1999, representing CCS since 2005. He was the EU’s Lead Negotiator getting CCS adopted by the UNFCCC into the Clean Development Mechanism at COP-17, and a UK advisor for getting CCS allowed in the London Convention (2004-7), in OSPAR (2006-7), the EU CCS Directive (2006-8), and the EU ETS (2006-9). Tim has also worked for the Global CCS Institute in Canberra and Curtin University in Perth (Australia). Tim has a BSc in Applied Physics and an MBA, is a Fellow of the Energy Institute (UK), and a member of the Institute of Physics and the UK Environmental Law Association.

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