9.15: Welcome by Dr Charles Pasternak (Director of OIBC)

Chairman: Prof Andrew Goudie (Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Session 1

9.30: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith (Director of Fusion Research, UKAEA Culham): The energy challenge

10.15: Prof Kevin Kendall (School of Engineering, Birmingham University): Fuel cells for zero emissions

10.45: Dr Alan Bond (Managing Director, Reaction Engines, Culham Innovation Centre): The problems of non-carbon aircraft fuels

11.05 – 11.30 Coffee break

Session 2

11.30: Sue Ion (lately British Nuclear Fuels and President, British Nuclear Energy Society): Nuclear energy: international renaissance as a major low carbon energy source

12.00: Dr Sam Holloway (British Geological Survey): Carbon dioxide capture and storage

12.30: Prof Ian Fells (Founding Chairman New & Renewable Energy Centre, Blyth, Northumberland): Can renewable energy save the world?

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

Session 3

Chairman: Sir Crispin Tickell (Director of Policy Foresight Programme, James Martin Institute, Oxford University)

2.00 – 4.00: All participants: Debate
4.00 – 4.30 Tea

Symposium reception and dinner

New Room, Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford

6.45:  Reception
7.30:  Dinner
          After-dinner speaker: Andrew Bennett, Executive Director of Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture: Agriculture: sustaining what, where and for whom?