2025
Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change, Chengdu, China, 28 May-1 June
2024
The Second International Society for Energy Transition Studies Conference, Nanjing, China, 1-3 November
Solutions for Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia, From Science to Policy and Practice, Mekong Environment Resilience Week, Bangkok, Thailand, 9 October
The Atlas of Environmental Justice – a celebration, Col.legi de Periodistes, Barcelona, Spain, 11 June. Announcement. YouTube video.
Fintech RE: The benefits and challenges of digital financing for decentralised and distributed renewables in Hong Kong, HKUST Institute of Emerging Market Studies Seminar, 6 March. Thought Leadership Brief.
2023
Sustainable energy transitions research: Past, present, and the future, Kyoto University, 19 October.
Building resilience: Are our systems and frameworks protecting the most vulnerable? Asia Pacific Public Policy Network Conference, Hong Kong, 1 June.
Climate fragility risks and conflict emergence in Bangsamoro’s Maguindanao Province, Data-oriented approaches to the social sciences and humanities, Kyoto University, 1 March.
Southeast Asian’s Green Energy Transition, The Southeast Asia Exchange, 18 February.
Insights roundtable for civil society organizations and legislators for learning exchanges across Southeast Asia and Europe, Heinrich Boell Stiftung Southeast Asia, 6 and 9 February.
2022
Regional multi-stakeholder dialogue: Towards just energy transition in Asean, Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance Program, 3 October.
China’s Global Energy Interconnections: Promises and pitfalls, Virtual Symposium: Energy integration and Chinese investments in the power sector in Latin America, The RAND Corporation, 23 September.
Critiquing the promise of energy transition-digitalization-financialization triangle: expert perceptions from Hong Kong, Webinar: MIT Club of Hong Kong, 24 May.
Accelerating energy transition with radical policy, Webinar: Creating a better understanding of renewable energy and energy efficiency, Thimphu, Bhutan, 23 May.
KEYNOTE: How mobilizations can help us reach our climate change goals, Stockholm +50: The Nordic Model of Ecological Transformation 1972-2022, Stockholm University, 20 May.
Towards a Just Energy Transition in Southeast Asia, Webinar: Accelerating a just energy transition in Asia: Voices from civil society and business, CarbonCare InnoLab, Hong Kong, 7 April.
2021
Energy resilient Philippines, Workshop on Enhancing Climate Adaptation Capacity of Asean Energy Systems through the Concept of Energy Resilience, Asean Science, Technology and Innovation Week, Bangkok, Thailand, 17 June 2021.
Vision of future Philippine energy: Sustainable energy in an era of cascading crises, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 22 May 2021.
Energy access and resilience: Sustainable energy in Thailand and the Philippines, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 17 March 2021
Balik (Returning) Scientist e-Lecture: Joules and Goals: Synergies and tradeoffs between energy transition and sustainable development, University of Science and Technology in Southern Philippines, Cagayan de Oro, 29 January 2021.
2020
Balik (Returning) Scientist e-Lecture: Producing resilient energy systems: Sustainable energy at times of crises, University of Science and Technology in Southern Philippines, Cagayan de Oro, 18 December 2020.
Keynote: The future of just energy transition post-CoVid 19, Energy and Sustainable Development Webinar in Honor of Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, President, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, 2 July 2020. Read about the event here. Watch the lecture here.
Promises and pitfalls of China-Southeast Asia energy interconnection, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 29 February 2020.
2019
Human-Earth systems sustainability transformations for and by whom? Max Planck Gesellschaft, Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Germany, 17 December 2020.
Balik (Returning) Scientist Lecture: Accelerating energy transition in the Philippines, College of Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman, 12 December 2020.
Accelerating climate action in a climate emergency: What can we learn from wartime mobilizations? Future Earth Philippines Summit, Manila, Philippines, 25 November 2020.
Democratic, yet rapid, climate mobilization? Scaling up local energy transitions in a deliberative system, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2 July 2019. Host: Energy Studies Institute. Read about the event here.
Democratic, yet rapid, climate mobilization? Scaling up local energy transitions in a deliberative system, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 6 May 2019. Host: Division of Environment and Sustainability.
Navigating the contested coproduction of energy transitions in Thailand and the Philippines, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11 February 2019. Host: Department of Geography.
Whose and what climate futures? Navigating the contested coproduction of energy transition policy in Thailand and the Philippines, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, 5 February 2019. Host: Western Program.
2018
Whose and what futures? Contested energy policy visions in Thailand and the Philippines, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA, 12 December 2018. Host: Department of Environmental Studies.
Wartime mobilization and rapid climate change, Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 14 November 2018. Host: Liberal Arts Division at Rhode Island School of Design. Read about the event here. Watch the lecture here.
Accelerating sustainable energy transitions in developing countries: Energy democracy in a non-democracy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 17 September 2018. Host: Energy for Human Development at MIT.
Philippine energy futures: Imagining a sociotechnical transition and establishing a sociotechnical agenda, Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines, 4 July 2018. Host: Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technologies.
Producing the future of energy systems in developing countries: contested visions in Thailand, WeGen, Ortigas, Pasig, Philippines, 25 June 2018. Host: WeGen.
Can energy democracy thrive in a non-democracy? Evidence from rural Thailand, The International Institute of Social Studies at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 13 March 2018. Host: The ISS.
Producing the future of energy systems in developing countries: contested visions in Thailand, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 7 February 2018. Host: Division of Public Policy.
2017
Energy democracy in a non-democracy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 13 July 2017. Host: Communication Institute at the University of Utah. Read about the event here. Watch the lecture here.
Lunchtime Colloquium: Energy transitions from below, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, 11 May 2017. Host: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU. Watch the lecture here.
Producing the future of energy in developing countries: contested visions in Thailand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 11 April 2017. Host: Energy for Human Development at MIT.
Global warming: impacts and strategies for the Filipinos, Parish of Saint Anthony of Padua, Kiamba, Sarangani Province, Philippines, 25 January 2017. Host: The Parish of Saint Anthony in Kiamba, Diocese of Marbel.
Wartime mobilisation as a model for climate action? Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 12 January 2017. Host: Environment, Sustainability, and Development Program.
2016
Wartime mobilisation as a model for climate action? City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 18 November 2016. Host: Department of Asian and International Studies.
Wartime mobilisation as a model for climate action? Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 16 November 2016. Hosts: The School of Social Sciences Research Cluster on Environment, Society and Sustainable Development, the Manila Observatory, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Wartime mobilisation as a model for climate action? Breakthrough Forum, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 14 November 2016. Host: Sustainable Living Foundation.
Wartime mobilisation as a model for climate action? University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 11 November 2016. Host: Climate Change Research Center.
Accelerating energy transitions: what technologies ought to be in the mix, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 25 October 2016. Host: Harvard Energy Journal Club.
Climate change, energy, and development nexus: challenges and opportunities for the Philippines, Notre Dame of Dadiangas University, General Santos City, Philippines, 13 August 2016. Host: College of Business.
Producing energy futures in the global south, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, 15 April 2016. Host: College of Science and Engineering.
Policy for rapid energy transitions, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA, 25 January 2016. Host: Department of Social Science, Environment, and Energy Policy.
2014
Politics, governance and sociology of rapid climate mitigation, Notre Dame of Dadiangas University, General Santos City, Philippines, 5 July 2014. Host: College of Business.
Sustainable energy transitions in developing countries, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 25 June 2014. Host: School of Engineering and Information Technology.
Wartime economies: scale and speed, for ‘Breakthrough: National Climate Restoration Forum,’ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21 June 2014. Host: National Center for Climate Restoration. Watch the lecture here.
2013
Is wartime mobilisation a suitable policy model for rapid national climate mitigation? For ‘The Radical Emissions Reduction Conference,’ Royal Society, UK, 10 December 2013. Host: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
2010
Filling funding gap: clean energy and Asian Development Bank, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 4 June 2010. Host: Research and Transfer Center on the Applications of Life Science.
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