DR STUART JENKINS
RESEARCH FELLOW ON NET ZERO FOR THE FOSSIL FUEL SECTOR

Stuart Jenkins is the Oxford Net Zero Research Fellow on Net Zero for the Fossil Fuel Sector. He works on the design and appraisal of climate policy at the multi-national, national and corporate scales, and the design and use of novel regulatory and supply-side climate policies to achieve net zero by mid-century. He is a leading voice within Oxford on the analysis of Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) scenarios used in IPCC assessment reports, including work on MESSAGE-ix IAM and IAM emulators. Before this, Stuart’s background in physics included research on the remaining carbon budget, quantifying non-CO2 contributions to recent and future climate change, and the design of novel GHG metrics for the comparison of atmospheric pollutants’ warming impact. He uses this background to ground his policy research on the physical principles required to achieve durable net zero.

Stuart has developed the Carbon Takeback Obligation, a supply-side mitigation policy which requires extractors and importers of fossil fuels to recapture and store a progressively increasing fraction of the CO2 embedded within their products. He is studying how this policy could be implemented in national, regional and global climate policy. Learn more about the CTBO policy here: carbontakeback.org. We are interested in collaborating with national policymaker and corporate stakeholders to research novel supply-side regulatory policies and their impacts.

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