The Impact of the Global Gas Crisis: Lessons for the UK and Implications for energy security and Net-Zero
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Abstract
The presentation starts by assessing the changing role of natural gas in the UK energy system, it then examines the status of UK gas security. Next, it turns to the recent global gas crisis and its impact on Europe and the UK’s relationship with the EU’s gas market. It concludes by analysing the current situation and the challenges that the UK might face going forward to the end of the decade.
Biography
Michael Bradshaw is Professor of Global Energy at Warwick Business School. His academic background is in human geography. He competed his undergraduate training at the University of Birmingham (BSc) and he has an MA from the University of Calgary (Alberta) and he gained his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He works at the interface between economic and political geography, business and management and international relations.
His past research on the geopolitical economy of global energy examined the role of foreign investment in Russia's oil and gas industry; global energy dilemmas and the interrelationship between energy security, climate change and economic globalization; and the challenges to the UK's gas security. He is the author of Global Energy Dilemmas (2014), co-editor of Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (2015), and co-author of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (2018) and Natural Gas (2020, Polity Press). He was a Co-Director of Phase 4 of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and led a theme on UK Energy in a Global Context (2019-2024). Recently he was seconded to Shell Scenarios as a Senior Scenario Planner (2022-24). He is now an Associate Fellow with the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. His is currently writing a book that research explores the geopolitics of energy system transformation.