Discussion on low carbon future at the ICTA-UAB MdM Seminar Series
Professor Tim Foxon from the University of Sussex (UK) will be visiting the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) next Friday, April 7th, at 12 noon to give the seminar "Low Carbon Future: What can we learn from past transitions?".
![Conferència Tim Foxon](/Imatge/638/352/lowcarbonfuture.jpg)
Prof. Tim Foxon is Professor of Sustainability Transitions at SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. His research explores the technological and social factors related to the innovation of new energy technologies, the co-evolution of technologies and institutions for a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy, and relations and interdependencies between energy use and economic growth. He is member of the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, the UK Energy Research Centre and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. He is currently writing a book on the implications for a low carbon transition of the role of energy in past surges of economic development.