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Sustainability - Presentation 4

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  • Tuesday, 12 March 2013
  • 00:12 - 00:12
  • Duration: 10 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Mar 2013
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Global Grand Challenges Summit

About the session

Climate change and the impact of population growth on resources are among the greatest risks to mankind's existence, yet efforts to mitigate these risks have been partial and haphazard. There is still no consensus on how sustainable development can be reconciled with strong growth in emerging and developing economies that is lifting billions out of poverty. This presentation asks whether a global systems approach to engineering innovation can bolster political efforts to reconcile economic growth with environmental sustainability.

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    John Loughhead

    UK Energy Research Centre, Executive Director

    John Loughhead is Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, a distributed organisation drawing together 150 academic researchers and some 30 universities which is the focal point of the UK energy research programme. He was previously Vice-President of the Alstom group. He has been active in energy systems research for over 30 years, developing new generation, conversion and system technologies, and has extensive interactions with UK and international government bodies on energy policy development and new technology deployment. He has recently been appointed the UK-China Science Focal Point for Energy and Renewables. John is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, where he also spent five years in computational fluid dynamics research. He is Past-President of the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the UK and Australian national academies of engineering, Professor of Engineering at Cardiff University and Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
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