Please UNECE as we welcome Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Jessica Smith presenting a virtual seminar titled Critical Raw Materials in Vulnerable Geographies: Impact on Women on Thursday, March 23, 2023.

Organized by the EGRM Women in Resource Management Working Group, co-chaired by Cristina Marras and Maria A. Capello.

The transition to lower carbon energy sources will push the demand for critical raw materials at an unprecedented pace. The shift to a cleaner energy system is set to drive a huge increase in the requirements for Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Rare earth elements as well as Copper and Aluminum.

The International Energy Agency states that “a scenario that meets the goals of the Paris Agreement, would mean a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040”. As countries increase their efforts in reducing emissions, others will proportionally maintain the effects of the increased requirements for critical raw materials. Within these accelerated energy dynamics, it is important to care for the communities and society segments that are impacted the most.

This webinar will be centered on the challenges, frameworks, and opportunities for women in countries and regions that are vulnerable. The speakers will share their insights about women’s participation in the access, development, and management of critical raw materials. We need all hands on deck, for a just transition that provides opportunities for all.

• Khombada Mhopjeni, National Program Officer, UNESCO Namibia, Windhoek Office, and previous manager at Namibia Geological Survey
• Alejandra W. Woods, Director, COLDELCO Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, and CESCO Centro de Estudios del Cobre, Chil
• Dr. Jessica Smith, Professor, Engineering, Design, and Society Dept Colorado School of Mines

The event will be moderated by Alfredo Alvarez Laparte; Energy Segment Leader & Solutions Leader – EY Latin America North at EY.

The current discussion around the climate impact of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is centered around measurement of actual emissions rather than the traditional estimation techniques. The future oil and gas production facility will have to take into consideration the objective of eliminating or at least minimizing GHG emissions and to demonstrate that requirement through specific measurement and reporting techniques. The phrase “Measure what Matters” is becoming more common as environmental NGO as well as regulators better understand the limits to  previous reporting methods. Approaches to measurement range from satellites to aircraft surveys, to drone inspection surveys to various types of continuous monitoring and ultimately to operations procedures like LDAR (leak detection and repair) and use of FLIR (forward looking infrared) thermal camera surveys will have to be adopted. Measure what Matters is even one of the pathways in the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Gaia framework. We at the Payne Institute of Public Policy have coined the term Digital Canopy for Emissions Detection to try and frame the advantages and limitations of these various techniques and to begin to reconcile the top down and bottoms up measurements to develop a way to more accurately measure emissions and to help operators more proactively identify, locate fugitive emissions leaks and to quantify the size and impact of the largest “super-emitter” events.

Jim Crompton is retired from Chevron in 2013 after almost 37 years with the major international oil & gas company. Jim established the Reflections Data Consulting LLC to continue his work in the area of data management and analytics for Exploration and Production industry. He is a frequent speaker at Society of Petroleum Engineers conferences on Digital/Intelligent Energy and the Data Foundation. His interests lie in the full spectrum of the information value chain from data capture, data management, data visualization, data access, modeling and analytics, simulations and serious gaming. Jim graduated from the Colorado School of Mines (BS in Geophysical Engineering in 1974 and MS in Geophysics in 1976) before joining Chevron in Denver, Colorado. He later earned an MBA degree (1996) from Our Lady of the Lake University (San Antonio, Texas).

Please join Saudi Arabia and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Morgan Bazilian and Dr. John Bradford, presenting at the Future Minerals Forum on Wednesday, January 11 – Thursday, January 12, 2023 in Riyadh.

Join us as Saudi Arabia brings together governments, industry, investors, technology suppliers, educators and civil society to develop a minerals and metals value chain roadmap for the region: development, decarbonization, digitization and innovation.

Please join the Mines Global Energy Future Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Peter B. Kelemen, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor, Columbia University, presenting a live seminar titled Carbon Mineralization for CO2 Removal from Air and Permanent Storage at the Gigaton Scale on Friday, April 8, 2022, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm (MT).  A reception will follow.

Peter Kelemen studies the chemical and physical processes of reaction between fluids and rocks. His primary focus is on geologic capture and storage of C02 (CCS), and reaction-driven cracking processes in natural and engineered settings, with application to CCS, the global carbon cycle on Earth & Mars, geothermal power generation, hydrocarbon extraction, in situ mining.