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SUMMARY:Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source - Mr 
 Simon Spooner\, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist\, UK Water Mana
 gement. Technical Director\, China Infrastructure.  Honorary Professor\, N
 ottingham University UK and Ningbo\, China.
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 kDM6.\n\n_This talk is held together with CU Science and Policy Exchange a
 nd CU Social Impact and Sustainability Society._\n\n*Abstract:*\n\nCombust
 ion Transition is a framework based on the principle that the cause of cli
 mate change is the over-exploitation of the process of combustion. GHG emi
 ssions and other air pollution are mostly a consequence of the combustion 
 of material that is residual from life processes. The combustion process p
 rovides the power that drives our current industrial society and it is in 
 the combustion chamber that most of the economic value of fossil fuels is 
 realised. Focussing on combustion rather than carbon leads to a better und
 erstanding of and strategies for how to tackle climate change. It also all
 ows the development of effective metrics and economic measures for managin
 g the transition. Though a very new concept\, Combustion Transition has be
 en already applied through Atkins in the development of the Oman National 
 Spatial Strategy. The talk will first outline the philosophy and principle
 s behind Combustion Transition\, and then run through how metrics (e.g. co
 mbustion rather than carbon accounting) and possible economics measures (c
 ombustion transition funds) arise from these and demonstrate with some exa
 mples.\n\n*Speaker Profile:*\n\nSimon Spooner has 20 years experience in U
 K and China of water and environmental management - planning and financing
  projects\, designing and optimising infrastructure - and how government p
 olicy and regulation works and develops. He works for Atkins\, the UK's la
 rgest technical consultancy. He spent more than a decade in China\, as Atk
 ins Technical Director and as a programme manager of the EU-China River ba
 sin management programme and before that many projects for World Bank\, Df
 iD\, OECD\, UK FCO and European Union as well as Chinese local government 
 clients. He is an Honorary Professor of Nottingham University in UK and in
  China as well as a visiting lecturer at Cambridge\, Tsinghua\, Wuhan\, an
 d Nottingham Ningbo Universities\, and is a prominent figure in UK/Europe 
 - China environmental and industrial groups.\n
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